Taking One for the Team

I got an email from my thesis advisor yesterday, encouraging me to present at the Graduate Research Conference. This was about the third email I've gotten "encouraging me" to present. I've ignored them, because it's not something I really want to do. It may be funny to have phrases like "stop, my butt hurts" (one of the meanings of the word Yaoi) in my thesis. Less funny to have to say them out loud to strangers while doing a power point. However, I read the various responses contained in the email that had been forwarded along, and it all originated from the Dean of Graduate Studies who was extending the deadline for submitting abstracts and personally requesting that someone from Women's Studies presents.

*sigh*

You don't say no to the Dean of your college. Knowing my other classmates, I had a sneaking suspicion none of them planned on presenting, so despite my deep desire not to present, I've decided to "take one for the team" and do it. I will be presenting information from my thesis "Queering the Lines: Women Writing Same-sex Male Couples in Fiction" (at least I think that's my title). The conference is April 7th, I don't have a time for when I will be presenting yet. So if anyone wants to watch me stand up in front of a bunch of academics and talk about masturbation and anal sex... please feel free to show up. Maybe that way I won't notice the dean of my college in the audience.