thank you very much

i've just been going over my resume, checking my details are all correct, etc. i was having a look through my list of published works and papers given. seems i'm doing quite well for papers, but i haven't published anything since 2001. and that was a book review. this is a bit of a concern, seeing as how i'll be looking for work in a big way in about a year and a bit.
so i figured i'd have a think about journals to publish in. i'm going to be strategic about this: journals that will get me work in an area i want to work in. so, using my journal articles to advertise my brain.
hardly a new idea for academics. we've really got to get canny about this stuff, us pgrads. especially this one, who's had a moment of 'oh my god. 13 years of university life. almost at an end. what will i do next?'. i'd like to work in acadamia. so i need to get publishing. as published papers are reliable advertisments for my researching skills, my brain, my ability to manage my time (publish and finish a thesis? well done!) and my incentive.
i'd like to teach more this coming semester, as i need the cash (and'd like to go to herrang again), but i've really taught enough to make my resume look good. a couple more lectures would be nice, though. pad that out a bit. it seems that it helps to have done some serious subject convening as well, but that's ambitious. and i'd have to take time off from the thesis for that. and i've had quite enough of that thank you very much.

so i'm looking through the journals.
here's where i'd like to start: Media International Australia. the sort of journal that publishes the sort of work i like. links with uq, which is good for someone who's area seems to be centered there. australian, which is nice.
i should also aim for an international media studies journal as well, but i'm not sure where. maybe something fan studies ish.
and i'd like to publish something in a gender studies journal as well. maybe the journal of international womens studies or something similar.

i've published in online journals, and i think it's time to get into some paper ones. beyond conference procedings.

so that's my plan for the coming year. publish a couple of papers.
and i'd better finish off this thesis.
it actually all seems doable. at least the thesis bit. maybe at least one paper. esp as i finish off chapters. then i'll have stuff for papers.

man. this is actually all going ok. of course i've now jinxed myself thoroughly... nah. i don't believe in that rubbish. you really have to take a positive, proactive approach to pgrad work. or else you drown in all the isolated, self-reflexive postgrad depression and anxiety. and i've had quite enough of that, thank you very much.