Progress looks like this: I need to theorise dominance in interaction. How do I do that in a paragraph or two? Where do I look? Ah, gender in language probably has a lot about dominance. Yes, yes, it does and it starts to bleed into critical discourse analysis, which I need to address briefly but step away from because it's not what I'm really interested in. Institutional power is not dominance. Well it is: they're related, here's how they're related, but I'm interested in someone calling someone else human garbage. That's not exactly a question of institutional power. Here's how I'm going to use it and where my research is going to take these ideas. Full stop.
This it the process of writing that I need to work on.
Things I'm thankful for today:
- Wife and kids in the morning
- Copier code in library
- Sunny day
- Painless (80%-ish) ride on bike for first time since operation
- Chicken for dinner
- www.hunter-gather.com
- A wide open future
- My standing (stand-up? Not sure what term we're using) desk
- Party at friends on Friday
- Three day weekend
- Not caring about three day weekends because I love working
- 8:30, when everyone has gone to bed and the house is quiet
- The garden
- Playing in the garden with kids
- Porridge
- Low carb, low calorie skillet (like Denny's, only healthy)
- Memories of bike rides in Shibata, Japan
- The prospect of more bike rides in Japan
- Unsweetened lemonade
- Starbucks card
- James Blake
- Baby coming sooner rather than later
- Homoeostasis
- Apples
- iMean last week
- Hot sauces, all of them
- Milton Keynes in the Spring
- Convergence
- But never without some divergence
- Agreement with wife on a key life issue
Good to make a list every so often, I think, even if it is dominated by food. I used to make these lists all the time. I should to it more often.