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Rather successful day, quite productive dissertationwise. I've been reading various books and coming across more ideas that I don't really need as 8000 words isn't enough space for them all.

On a depressing note, I did find out my exams are happening the week after my deadline. This means that time to write my dissertation now needs to be split between spanish oral preparation, translation (into and out of spanish), spanish writing skills and possibly the most challenging - spanish feminism. While spanish feminism is taking up a lot of my time, it has proved to be one of the more challenging and rewarding modules of my uni experience. It's a killer for the amount of reading and I only wish I could dedicate more time to it, unfortunately my dissertation is more important and a more personal project. Maybe I could find some spanish feminists blogging?

During my investigations today I have stumbled upon the following interesting things:

- Hayles describing the internet as a place without a body, where identity is subject to the will or to information rather than physical parameters such as gender, ethnicity, race etc. Not so sure what I'll do with this information, but I thought it was a curious idea.

- Huyssen implying that temporal anchoring is becoming more and more important in 21st century.

- 'Online diaries are more than just dialogues with the self but also a type of 'identity network' through which participants can seek out connections and discursive soapboxes from which to present themselves and their words'.

(all of the above in Andreas Kitzmann, 'Saved from Oblivion')

- There were weblog awards. I wonder what happened to these? Are they still going? I only found them up until 2008 I think.

- A friend of a friend is blogging and has given me their 6 reasons for blogging. This has been very useful.

I might start to read spanish blogs, I wonder where I could find these? It would be killing two birds with one stone.

My tutor wants 2000 words by next friday, I think this may be wishful thinking as I'm going home this weekend and need to complete a job application and support my step brothers in a potentially disappointing football match. Also words so far = 0. Starting to feel a little overwhelmed, think I will go to bed and start again tomorrow morning.