Slow Thoughts from Dale du Preez

  • Interviewing Experience

    Apologies for not having more composed thoughts today: I had my first real-world interview for a real-world job today. Beyond the tension I felt leading up to the interview itself, the day was exhausting because it involved driving the two hours between Amherst and Boston twice today. But in any…

  • Questions of Immigration, the West and Islam

    As what one might term an immigrant, I am really interested in issues of integration and belonging. I’ve encountered these issues on a personal level but have also dealt with them in numerous academic situations. My thoughts at the moment are being driven by Alon Levy’s thoughts on Islam at…

  • Finding a job

    Looking for a job isn’t fun. It saps your energy, erodes away your time and plays havoc with your mental state if you are an average job seeker. I am involved in that process at the moment. Granted, my situation as someone at a good college with a semester plus…

  • Media (Over)Production

    What with all the media being produced by contemporary society, it amazes me that there is still money to be made in publishing of various kinds. I was struck by the thought when I saw a poster for a poetry reading at a town bookstore. I’ve never heard of the…

  • That marriage thing

    So it’s now official. South Africa has officially legalised gay marriage, which resulted in the first gay marriage happening earlier today. I was motivated to start writing my blog before things came to a head: at that stage, the South African Parliament hadn’t approved the Civil Unions Bill. But now…

  • Starting up

    And so it begins… This is my first foray into blogging, which is quite late by most standards of blogging, but I do have reasons for waiting this long. Some of my waiting was because I had no idea what blogging was all about. But as soon as I got…