Spent all day in Manchester University Library. Lots of books. Only allowed a three day pass into the library since I'm not a student there. Pooh on a stick. Will photocopy hundreds of pages tomorrow. No choice.

Strange energy from this dissertation work. Strange. Went there completely exhausted, woke up too early, too little sleep. Started reading: energized. Note-taking: Energized. EnergiZED.

I could literally feel the cogs in my brain turning, turning as they help develop arguments, formulate sentences and strings of thought related to my research as I formulate ideas of how to structure 10,000 words on Riot Grrrl in my head. Social conditions behind the movement? History of punk. Women in punk and women in rock. Quotations from Tori Amos, Siouxie, Jordan, Vivienne Westwood, Neneh Cherry, more more more as examples of what the Riot Grrrls tried to transform and why. The Sex Revolts as BIBLE. Then? History of feminism; what was missing in feminism? What aspects of feminism did the Riot Grrls incoroporate? Did they fill a social space, create a social space? 'my identity is not who I am,' quoted one zine-writer. What does that mean? Is that the point of Riot Grrrl? All this and more, baby. The thoughts are just churning in my head and really, thisisalli'mthinkingabout.

Dark's falling. Bed soon. Up at 7 to do this all over again.

xxx

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