Addendum and a list of lists

Just to clarify, I still haven't finished my thesis, right now I'm very close to finishing my first chapter (I have 19 pages of what looks to be a 23 page chapter).  It's taking more slowly than I thought, but having something concrete to look at makes me confident that the rest is just an accumulation of hours worked and will not require any great feats of analytical derring-do, particularly since I've already finished the part where I do all the hard thinking.  It's just a matter now of fleshing out the ideas in my rather detailed summary.  And since I estimate the finished thesis will be around 120 pages long, then I'm already one-sixth finished.

Oh, and things I will miss about Halifax, especially in comparison to Sudbury:

• Cheap seafood
• Being able to walk everywhere
• The bus pass that is part of my student fees
• Living down the street from the video store and the supermarket
• Having nearby cafes to work in
• The support of my Masters cohort
• The more bohemian outlook of the populace
• The fact that the working class are less visible
• Being able to pop into my supervisors' office when I need to talk to her about my work
• The large academic library at Dalhousie

The last is particularly important to me since I have to retun a giant bunch of library before I leave; I've actually been hoarding them since last year and have been exercising my privileges as a grad student.

But, Laurentian does have some of the books I need, and I can take them out since I have a Canada-wide library card.

The books I can get from Laurentian:

• Identity: Community, Culture, Difference. John Rutherford (ed.)
• Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, Judith Butler
• Culture, Globalization and the World System, Anthony D. King (ed.)
• Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson (this one's a classic so I think I'll just buy it, I'll probably be referring to it a lot in the future anyway)
• Codeswitching: Anthropological and Sociolinguistic perspectives, Monica Heller (ed.)
• The Location of Culture, Homi Bhabha
• Working Feminism, Geraldine Pratt
• The Rise of the Network Society, Manuel Castells
• The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World, Stephen Castles & Mark J. Miller
• Language and Nationalism: Two Integrative Essays, Joshua A. Fishman
• Language and Ethnicity: Focusschrift in Honor of Joshua A. Fishman, James R. Dow (ed.)
• The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Erving Goffman
• Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography, James Clifford & George Marcus
• Technologies of the Self, Michel Foucault

The new and the good stuff can't be found in Laurentian, so I'll have to do a lot of photocopying before I leave, but I'll have to buy a bunch more books too.  Oh well, maybe I can get some books from U of T if we're there over Christmas.