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Yuk. Freshers' flu :-(
In other news, less stressed now. Went to dinner with Michael-John and Ola on Saturday, and shared PhD stress with him, which was quite reassuring.
I've also found a book on the early development of rights theory which is not nearly so obscure and does not rely on the reader having fluent Latin (I didn't get much further than "canis in via dormit" and various bits of latin masses, and that was a very long time ago).
Also I have worked out that my first tutorial will be a week later than I had thought, which is helpful. I'm tweaking but basically reusing the material that I set on Hobbes last year for the first political philosophy tutorial, and I have done most of the preparation for the first philosophy of religion one.
So now the main priorities are meeting my chapter deadline (the deadline I set myself is the 18th, although the one my supervisor set me is the 31st) and writing my lectures on Locke (the first one will, I think, be on November 2nd).
On the downside my nose is streaming and I have a headache, so I think I will take a book to bed and hope that I feel OK for the postgrad social thingy tonight.
In other news, less stressed now. Went to dinner with Michael-John and Ola on Saturday, and shared PhD stress with him, which was quite reassuring.
I've also found a book on the early development of rights theory which is not nearly so obscure and does not rely on the reader having fluent Latin (I didn't get much further than "canis in via dormit" and various bits of latin masses, and that was a very long time ago).
Also I have worked out that my first tutorial will be a week later than I had thought, which is helpful. I'm tweaking but basically reusing the material that I set on Hobbes last year for the first political philosophy tutorial, and I have done most of the preparation for the first philosophy of religion one.
So now the main priorities are meeting my chapter deadline (the deadline I set myself is the 18th, although the one my supervisor set me is the 31st) and writing my lectures on Locke (the first one will, I think, be on November 2nd).
On the downside my nose is streaming and I have a headache, so I think I will take a book to bed and hope that I feel OK for the postgrad social thingy tonight.