TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Monday, March 03, 2003

2:28 PM
Posted by jodi rose

Melbourne University
Last bastion of rational logic coherent narratives in a vortex of transcendentalist mayhem!

It astonishes me to be reminded that people are actually reading this as I merrily type away in my occasionally flippant manner with whatever is uppermost in my mind at that moment.

Now I have been taken to task by someone who took issue with a description in the last entry. While it does seem to me an accurate portrayal of my struggle to maintain a creative presence within the academy; the spirit of the comment was more in reference to the echelons of academia itself, rather than specific gatekeepers who may be attempting the impossible in trying to keep me on the straight and narrow in order to produce a more sophisticated piece of scholarly writing than I would otherwise be able to. So I do appreciate the ongoing dialogue in working through these issues, and learning to express myself in a more succinct and precise frame of reference.

Not that I'm going to start censoring myself, I love getting feedback from this forum: so don't stop. In fact I'd like to take a poll, anyone reading this can you please go to the contact page and send me an email with a comment or suggestion on my direction and progress in life or art or haircolour. (chocolate cherry at the moment) This may be collated and published at a later date, completely at my discretion.

Time to go now and try to beat my writing into a sufficiently dry and dusty format - as advised in order to pass the next round of administrative judgement from the powers that be over in admin somewhere.