I’m gearing up for the first Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS) Conference in Ottawa on the 27th of this month. So I’m going through and pruning the presentation that I gave in Toronto. I’m clearing up little factual and grammatical errors in the text, in my Word version and also in the version on the site. So if you look really, really closely you might see something change right before your eyes. I will get to a more thorough editing shortly as the paper should be in to the conference organizers by the 20th.

I spoke to my supervisor last week and I’m supposed to have a draft of the second chapter to him by the 27th. Yes, it is a little tight but I really need to get the rubber to the road on this writing thing. Since I came back from Nassau I’ve been circling my work like a vulture waiting for the appropriate moment to strike. The time is now.

Very big Fergusons news to report: Audio has been found. At ZNS Freeport of all places. Turns out that the entire series was replayed in Grand Bahamas in the late eighties and all of those old reel-to-reel tapes were shipped over from ZNS Nassau. In the shipping back there was one box that was accidentally left behind. And lucky for us too as it seems that ZNS Nassau went and threw away everything in their archives nine years ago. Kind of defeats the purpose of having an archive don’t it?

I have a gut feeling that the tapes are there in Nassau. But I’m going to have to get some kind of authorization to look through the place myself. They may be right that nothing is there, but I would believe them more if they got out of their seats and actually looked.

And finally, I hope to get my interview / conversation with Ian Strachan’s radio show “The Nation Today” from February 2nd 2009 on this site soon, along with my little JCN TV moment from “Dialogue” with Etoile Pinder. As soon as I get the files / CDs / DVDs I’ll put em up.