Been a long time since I last bloged. Lost in the world of memory and nostalgia, I shall not try to update you... Anyway.. I had the last of my RCP course last night, after which I descended to a pub with two guys from my course. We talked about Orientalism, Religion, and Latin America. Although I confess I was not at all able to contribute to the discussions on Latin America. In fact the conversations left me feeling disarmed and inadequate. I sometimes think that I have not got what it takes.. I dunno, I mean I read some of Orientalism before, and thought I had 'bonned' up on it in time for the seminar, but I had nothing intelligent to say, except some vague notion of dependency theory being 'internalist' as well as Weber (this is as a result of a discussion on the nature of Orientalism in the study of Un-even development). I think that I have so much reading to do.....

Meanwhile I have not yet started my dissertation.. I need to see a wich doctor!