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Yup, the photo's back to me again (severely cropped, oh well). But to keep the Quebecitude going, I offer the following gem from Get Fuzzy (copyright Darby Conley, of course):

And for the basic information - I grew up in Southern California, and now, like half the Western world, I'm going to college near Boston. I'm majoring in linguistics, focusing on sociolinguistics in the Deaf and otherwise signing community and educational language policy and planning. In other words, I look at how people use signed languages, how that contributes to their cultural identity, and how all that can be taken into consideration when designing Deaf education programs. (I'm realizing that this is nearly as dull as a blank profile - but it's what I do, and I love it.)

This semester (which is to say, September - December 2004), I'm in Montreal as an exchange student with the Killam Fellowships program. To be more precise, no, I'm not at McGill, I've jumped into the deep end at the Université de Montréal, its friendly French equivalent. (Perhaps I've actually gone off the deep end; time will tell!)

My terribly greedy Wishlist (which I haven't updated in kind of a while).

Because my stuff (after a series of several moves) is in total disarray, and because my postal budget shouldn't interfere with my book-buying budget, I'm not going to be able to mail books out for a while. If, however, you're in Montreal, and want to exchange books face-to-face, don't hesitate to PM me.

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In keeping with the 50-book challenge (which, er, someone proposed in Chit-Chat), I'll be listing every book I read in 2004 here:

1. The Wind from Hastings (Morgan Llywelyn)
2. Coraline (Neil Gaiman)
3. Monstrous Regiment (Terry Pratchett)
4. Tipping the Velvet (Sarah Waters)
5. Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture (Carol Padden and Tom Humphries - re-read)
6. Political Death: A Jemima Shore Mystery (Antonia Fraser)
7. Gibbon's Decline and Fall (Sheri S. Tepper - re-read)
8. Dictionnaire des expressions quebecoises (Pierre DesRuisseaux - I wouldn't ordinarily list a dictionary, but I got this as a birthday present right before a 10-hour bus ride, so I did indeed read it all the way through...)
9. Sun in Glory (ed. Mercedes Lackey)
10. The Little Friend (Donna Tartt)
11. Wobegon Boy (Garrison Keillor)
12. The Queen's Fool (Philippa Gregory)
13. A Splash of Red: A Jemima Shore Mystery (Antonia Fraser)
14. Defense et illustration de la langue quebecoise (Michele Lalonde)
15. The Players Come Again: A Kate Fansler Mystery (Amanda Cross)
16. Queen's Ransom: A Mystery At Queen Elizabeth I's Court (Fiona Buckley)
17. Extraordinary People With Disabilities (Kent and Quinlan - re-read)
18. Rogue Scholar: The Sinister Life and Celebrated Death of Edward H. Rulloff (Frank Bailey)
19. Schooling Without Labels: Parents, Educators, and Inclusive Education (Douglas Bicklen - class reading, but I read it all the way through and enjoyed it, so it counts)
20. Immaculate Deception (Iain Pears)
21. The Theban Mysteries (Amanda Cross)
22. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (Mark Twain)
23. Return to Childhood: The Memoirs of a Modern Moroccan Woman (Leila Abouzeid - class reading, but see notes for 19)
24. The Burning of Bridget Cleary (Angela Bourke)
25. Silence is Golden: A Connor Westphal Mystery (Penny Warner)
26. The Indian in the Cupboard (Lynne Reid Banks - re-read/blast from past)
27. The Return of the Indian (Lynne Reid Banks - re-read. You can't imagine how much fun it was to find these again!)
28. A Mountainous Journey: An Autobiography (Fadwa Tuqan)
29. A Border Passage: From Cairo to America, One Woman's Journey (Leila Ahmed)
30. At War (Flann O'Brian/Myles na gCopaleen)
31. The Open Door (Latifa Al-Zayyat, trans. Marilyn Booth - see notes, #19)
32. Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade (Assia Djebar, trans. ... ?)
33. Cymbeline, King of Britain (William Shakespeare)
34. Affinity (Sarah Waters)
35. Never the Twain Shall Meet (Richard Winefield - re-read)
36. The Diary of an American Au-Pair (Marjorie Leet Ford)
37. Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign Against Sign Language (Douglas Baynton - re-read ... but oh my Gods, I'd forgotten how awesome this book was!)
38. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
39. The Dante Club (Matthew Pearl)
40. Dissolution (C.J. Sansom)
41. Le coeur decouvert (Michel Tremblay)
42. Quand les Sourds nous font signe (Marguerite Blais, Jules Derosiers)
43. La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes (Gaetan Soucy)
44. The Stepford Wives (Ira Levin)
45. The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian (Lawrence Block)
46. The Seduction of Water (Carol Goodman)
47. The Merchant's Partner (Michael Jecks)
48. The Bad Seed (William March)
49. The Golden Key (Melanie Rawn, Jennifer Roberson, Kate Elliot - re-read)
50. Oscar Wilde Discovers America (Louis Edwards)
HURRAH! I'VE MET THE CHALLENGE! (next stop #100)
51. The Doublet Affair (Fiona Buckley)
52. To Ruin a Queen (Fiona Buckley)
53. Eats, Shoots, & Leaves (Lynne Truss)
54. Our Lady of Darkness (Peter Tremayne)
55. The Question of Max (Amanda Cross)
56. Poetic Justic (Amanda Cross)
57. Mossflower (Brian Jacques)
58. Tara Road (Maeve Binchy - re-read)
59. History of Language Planning in Deaf Education: The 19th Century (Steve Nover - this is my boss' dissertation)
60. Martin and the Meanest Girl (Suzy Kline - slightly less heavy than my boss' dissertation)
61. Gathering Blue (Lois Lowry)
62. Confessions of an Irish Rebel (Brendan Behan)
63. The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories (O. Henry)
64. Grania: She-King of the Irish Seas (Morgan Llywelyn)
65. I, Robot (Isaac Asimov)
66. Wicked (Gregory Maguire)
67. Blind Side (Catherine Coulter)
68. American Sign Language: Shattering the Myth (ed. Tom Bertling)
69. Language Choice, Identity Choice (Barbara Kannapell)
70. How You Gonna Get to Heaven If You Can't Talk to Jesus: On Depathologizing Deafness (James Woodward)
71. Deaf Heritage in Canada (Clifton Carbin)
72. Jean de Florette (Marcel Pagnol, translated by ... ?)
73. Manon of the Springs (Marcel Pagnol, translated by the same person as #72 - oops.)
74. Around the Bloc (Stephanie Elizondo Griest)
75. Miss Mentor's Book of Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia (Miss Mentor, aka Emily Toth - re-read)
76. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Alexander McCall Smith)
77. Amos Daragon: porteur de masques (Bryan Perro)
78. Le cahier noir (Michel Tremblay)
79. Amos Daragon: La cle de Braha (Bryan Perro)
80. Tears of the Giraffe (Alexander McCall Smith)
81. Morality for Beatiful Girls (" ")
82. Amos Daragon: le crepuscule des dieux (Bryan Perro)
83. The Human Stain (Philip Roth)
84. Marcel poursuivi par les chiens (Michel Tremblay)
85. The Kalahari Typing School for Men (Alexander McCall Smith)
86. Balance of Power (Richard North Patterson)
87. Mystic River (Dennis Lehane)
88. The Concubine's Tattoo (Laura Joh Rowland)
89. Recherche jeune fille aimant danser (Mary Higgins Clark, v.f. de "Loves Music, Loves to Dance")
90. Nelligan (Michel Tremblay)
91. Amos Daragon: la malediction de Freyja (Bryan Perro)
92. Amos Daragon: la tour d'El-Bab (" ")
93. Amos Daragon: la colere d'Enki (" ")
94. Contes de ma mere l'Oye (Charles Perrault)
95. Bag of Bones (Stephen King)
96. Godplayer (Robin Cook)
97. L'enfant qui ne pleurait pas (Torey L. Hayden)
98. Fortune's Hand (Belva Plain)
99. Up the Down Staircase (Bel Kaufman)
100. (yay!) Moi, Tituba sociere (Maryse Conde)
101. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)
102. American Deaf Culture, an anthology (ed. Sherman Wilcox)
103. Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination (Helen Fielding)
104. Crime de village (Jules Renard)
105. Le serment d'Ysabeau (Sophie R... something)
106. Rebecca (Daphne duMaurier)
107. Kevin le revolte (Torey L. Hayden)

Currently reading:
-The Cider House Rules (JesseBC's bookray)
-Uf, va dir ell (Quim Monzo - do I speak Catalan? Of course not, that's the fun part!)
-Lots of thesis-related (ie, Deaf-related) stuff
-A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens - this is packed somewhere, but I'm still technically in the middle of it)
-Other stuff as it falls into my hands.

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Happy reading, and happy crossing! :c)