News ladies and gentlemen. I have a presentation to prepare for. I’ll be at the CERLAC Graduate Student Research Conference on Latin America and the Caribbean 7-8 November 2008, York University, Toronto. I’m presenting on the “Fergusons of Farm Road”, a.k.a. my research to date. Research that I will be sharing with you here as time goes on. So basically I have a month to prepare. The sound you hear is me hyperventilating.
This week went well as far as work was concerned. I went through 3 episodes, note taking and annotating. TA duties took away a good deal of my moxie this week. I severely underestimated the time it was going to take me to mark a map quiz. Thank God that another TA is now working with me. I was quite glad and grateful to give her half of the stack.
Going through the episodes this week, what stood out to me was that the character archs could be a source of meaning. For instance, there is a character named Samuel, and he develops from an irresponsible carouser into the assistant manager of the hotel where he works. Remember that while the show was running the Bahamas was going from a colony to an independent nation. Could that Character’s story have any greater meaning? Could he be a metaphor for the country’s development? I have to read more to find out for sure. But this angle looks promising.
I’m also working on a thorough redesign of the site. Should be done in a couple weeks. I’m trying to get it done before the conference. Hopefully the work on that doesn’t interfere with me getting my presentation together. Just a hunch, but I think that is more important.
(Although a redesign would be so very nice.)
