New School Year, New Music
So I’m back in the saddle again. My CFRC radio show, Primordial Soup, has moved to Thursdays, 1-2:30 pm EST, and I played a pretty eclectic, but still pretty awesome show loaded with new(ish) stuff. I also welcomed Andrew Stevens on the show. He is running the SGPS Votes campaign on Queen’s campus leading up to the Ontario provincial election. Playlist is below for the music I spun.
So, what have I been up to. Went to New York City for the first leg of PhD thesis data gathering for a month. We moved from our sketchpad to a pretty fabulous place downtown. I played domestic goddess for basically most of August, taking care of my family, sewing curtains for the new place, cooking and crafty stuff, hosting dinner parties, and generally ignoring my thesis for a bit. I did, however, construct a personal finding aid for the 12,000 photos (yes, twelve thousand) of documents I shot at Columbia U and organized them by relevance to particular themes. I was also commissioned for a book review so I spent some time on that before diving back into fall term.
Fall term, so far, is crazy and harried.
I'm pretty ok with tarts, especially when they are sweet and comforting. I'm partial to butter tarts mostly, but I can deal with raspberry ones too.
I’m teaching this year, so a lot of my thinking at the moment is about the course mechanics, content, and otherwise effective facilitation of a seminar. I’m a little freaked and a little excited…I’ll have more to report once we get past the introductory phase of the term.
Thesis-wise, I’ve got a decent fall plan set up with the aim of producing a usable chapter and a conference paper. I have broad ideas about winter too but I don’t want to get too far ahead of myself when I’m still trying to keep up with what’s on my to-do list this week. I spent the last few days thinking and reading about empire versus nationality so that I can lead up to a few weeks of solid reading on the Paris Peace Conference (1919) and the impact of treaties on former Imperial Russian territories. Tomorrow I’m going to punch out at least 5 pages on empire, whether they make sense or not, but I want to get into a habit of writing again.
Hopefully I can do that at a reasonable pace. But I still have a BIG pile of evidence to translate. Baby steps.
Anyway, here’s the playlist from today’s show.
Extra Happy Ghost-so at one*
Austra-Spellwork*
Hooded Fang-Tosta Mista*
Fruit Bats-Tony the Tripper
Knock Knock Ginger-Margot don’t be a hero*
Adverteyes-Help Yourself*
Bon Iver-Towers
Krista Muir-Tired Angels*
Chad van Gaalen-Burning Photographs*
Open Hearts Society-Boatbuilders*
One Hundred Dollars-Work*
Braids-Plath Heart*
Miracle Fortress-Everything Works*
Spoons-Imperfekt*
Music Maul-Second Story*
Planet Smashers-Hippopotamus*
Flogging Molly-Revolution
Whipping Wind-Don’t Get into It*
Say Domino-Amount*
*CANCON
