Yessss. Some of us are going to Hawaii, where we will give a conference paper and then sit around in a hammock sipping Mai Tais. Or, well, some of us are going to Hawaii if we can score a travel grant of some kind. Wait, no. Some of us are definitely going to Hawaii. If we don’t get a travel grant, we will scrape together enough cash (“fifty dollars for the powder room” is a handy gambit that may prove useful in this regard) for a flight and then sleep on the beach, in the manner of ultra-fabulous, destitute young ladies the world over.
Hey! Today I thought up my dream dissertation committee. Sadly, it is but a dream, because one member of my dream dissertation committee is Vivien Goldman, who on my dream committee would be my Post-Punk-Public Intellectual role model, but she is at NYU and not here and is probably so cool that if I ever met her I would shrivel into a sobbing, babbling lump out of despair at my own uncoolness. But what can you do?
Ok! I am off to mop the bathroom floor because everything (everything!) just overflowed. As a result of this turn of events, I have updated my Best Friends List:
1. Dana Scully,
2. Fox Mulder,
3. Walter Skinner,
4. Plumbers,
5. Landlords who pay the plumber so that I don’t have to.
Oh my god Hawaii. And also, we’re going to have to share Walter Skinner.
Have you gotten to the episode where he has Krycek chained to his balcony and is running around his apartment with no shirt on and is SO HOT? That was the episode that changed my life. Take me, Walter! Take me now!
I remember this conference! It is obviously an excuse for Academicians the world over to get money from their schools to sit on the beach and drink things out of pineapples.
Well done!
Oh man, no I haven’t gotten to that episode yet, but I’ve seen clips of it in YouTube’s X-Files-themed version of ‘It’s Raining Men’. Ahem.
Also, the older doctor in the evil liposuction episode looked really familiar so I looked him up on IMDB and realized it’s Benjamin Horne, which subsequently caused me to discover that he was Tony in West Side Story. Small world.
Highlights of this conference will include: The Sunday night luau featuring a Polynesian-style dance review. Yes, it’s true.
Ok, Emily, have you also discovered that Russ Tamblyn (ie: Dr. Jacoby) was ALSO in West Side Story and played Riff?
Me! Me! Pay me to go to Hawaii! What’s your dissertation about? Strange, we share almost the same best friends list – except in my case you can strike out the landlord and maybe add jack o’neill (sg1)
6. Leith Harris
Hawaii!! Fabulous, fabulous, fabulous. Perhaps especially if you have to sleep on the beach once you get there.
so, i just submitted a proposal to the Hawaii conference. perhaps we can be roommates if i too am lucky enough to get accepted!
Krysia – my dissertation is currently about nothing. I’m still in coursework and have a bit of time before I have to start thinking dissertation-wise. But it will be about popular music in some capacity – most likely involving women-fronted post-punk bands from the late 70s and early 80s.
Yay, Zarah, I hope you get in, too! Because that would be so awesome and fun!