Current mood:	indifferent
Current music:	Jean-Jacques Goldman: Je Marche Seul

Samemes
At the beginning of the summer, I was tasked with creating a poster for the Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies (SAMEMES). It was this newly formed association, chaired by my boss, Prof. Erne, whose inaugural opening Origins conference/seminar I presented at a few months ago. I made the gross mistake the first time around of creating this primarily for the upcoming first main conference, Pretexts, Intertextualities, and the Construction of Textual Identity, when it was meant to be generic, and having flattened a carefully created image, all needed to be done again. When the patience eventually rediscovered itself again, the final version was eventually made and accepted.

(From left to right): The aforementioned conference will feature several presentations from Geneva: Petya Ivanova, Ioana Balgradean, Louise Wilson and Sarah Van der Laan; and plenary lectures from, amongst others, the world renowned Prof. Stephen Orgel, and, by wonderful coincidence, Bristol's Dr. Ad Putter (the academic myatt). Despite the obvious pleasures, I'm not sure how much I'm looking forward to it; once again, I am the solitary student male from Geneva, and I will be staying in a different building with different arrangements from everyone else. Given some background issues, expense, and probably a natural reluctance (thinking to the past of avoiding balls / graduations), I am not taking part in either the conference dinner on the first evening, or the lunch on the second day. All just a little awkward, and it can really take the shine off it all. I am glad it is only a one-night stay. Finally, on the artistic front, I have gone for a refresh. The course website has been updated, with a new (though simple) homepage; my staff webpage is updated; and this journal has been freshened up to look cool, acute, and sharp. What that is meant to symbolise at this point in time, I'm not sure; 'improvement' is a simple enough, and apt enough, target.