A. What I should be doing1. Writing my Very Important Research Proposal that is due by Wednesday next week; or ( Read more... )

It's nearly 9pm, I haven't finished the teaching material I was supposed to get done today, let alone started research for the paper I need to write by Tuesday, and I'm going on a three-day long weekend diving trip tomorrow. (During which I will, assuming I get all the research material gathered in time to take it with me, be either underwater or ( Read more... )

... without providing any sort of actual textual analysis or supporting evidence, hence why it is a rant rather than anything useful :)

This started off as a reply to conradin's post (locked so I won't link to it here) about F/SF series with strong women protagonists. conradin mentioned two that came to mind, being the Empire series and Polgara in David Eddings ( Read more... )

today's words:

1230 / 1000 words. 123% done!

but the aim today is to finish as much as possible, so not really 123% done...

total words:

2306 / 5000 words. 46% done ( Read more... )

Words: 1,076/1,000

(where has Zokutou gone when I need it?)

Realised it was an impossibility to get this paper finished tonight and decided I would at least aim for my 1000-word quota before giving up and going home *yawn* This lack of internet at home is proving decidedly inconvenient :( Anyway, that was harder than it should have been, but ( Read more... )

The amazonfail saga continues... more reader/writer/customer reactions, more confused and contradictory PR reports both from official and unofficial sources, more blogger commentary and now some troll- antitroll explosions. (I haven't bothered with links for the rest, there are so many; but Jezebel has some good commentary and a link list ( Read more... )

Oh, Amazon. How can I justify ever buying from you again? Your blatantly discriminatory marketing policies are bad enough, but then attempting a corporate cover-up just shows us that your entire organisation is not to be trusted. Even if the books that have been amazonranked in the current fiasco get their sales rankings and visibility restored ( Read more... )

6:45am: Wake up. Think it is a good thing daylight saving starts tomorrow as 7:45am would be a much more sensible time to be waking up ( Read more... )

Some of us are familiar with the concept of anticipivalence -- that feeling you get when you are simultaneously looking forward to and feeling nervous about something that is going to happen ( Read more... )

Today ( Read more... )