Well, I'm meant to be writing a dissertation chapter (due on Tuesday!) so what better time for a post, right?

Things what I have been doing: Finished off the semester in a swirl of student-plagiarism fuckery (always a blast!), got really, really sick and stayed that way for weeks (someday would like to experience a summer break that doesn't start ( Read more... )

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~ via azriona, The Shadow Scholar: the man who writes your students' papers tells his story.
"You've never heard of me, but there's a good chance that you've read some of my work. I'm a hired gun, a doctor of everything, an academic mercenary. My customers are your students. I promise you that. Somebody in ( Read more... )

Item: Lord Peter Wimsey.

Sadly Dorothy Sayers wrote Lord Peter mysteries of a finite number, and then moved onto religious plays, and Dante of all things...[and I say, wasn't one infernal poet enough??? I ask you. When the world could have been blessed with tales of Lady Peter (nee Miss Harriet Deborah Vane) and the Wimsey sproglets in WWII to say ( Read more... )