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[felis_ultharus]

I just received this email from my professor:

Hi Hamish. The new due date for the final essay is Monday Dec. 12 before
noon.
Best,
Laura

I just got an un-asked-for 4-day extension for my essay. Which is great because I spent all day today working on my novel and did nothing for the esay at all, except looked up a couple of useful sources.

Spent the day working on the notebooks with all the information for my novel, and did 14 pages of the first revision. I also spent a good four hours researching Canadian history, especially queer history, as part of the background research. If I'm going to write one of the much older characters' backgrounds believably, I need to brush up on my knowledge of Montreal in the 1940s.

Along the way, I stumbled onto this book, and now I'm dying to make it an early Yule gift to myself. Yes, I know -- I'm a geek ^_^

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[jenjoou.livejournal.com]

I liked this one Written by my favorite English prof at McGill. ^_^ ...of course I took a grad seminar with him and we got a copy of the book before it was released... it didn't cost that much...

Yay for extension!

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

That one looks interesting, too. I guess I'm just interested in the military one because I'm on a Canadian queer history kick right now. I have a few books on queer history now, but none on Canadian queer history.

[sugar-spun.livejournal.com]

I worked on a documentary a couple of years ago that discussed the bisexuality of traditional Irish heroes because of the superstition that spilling one's seed into a woman made a man weaker, but to spill it into a man made both men stronger.

Should you be interested, it was called Land of Sex and Sinners.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I'm going to try and track then down :)