Found myself lying awake at 5 am, my brain going "A PHD? ARE YOU COMPLETELY MAD? If you'd wanted to keep busy, you could have just done GCSE flower arranging or something ( Read more... )

After a busy couple of days when I had my friend J. visiting (which was brilliant) and trying to finish the first draft of my research proposal, things have now calmed down. The first draft is done and sent to my beta readers. So I'm taking a bit of time to read. Started The Help by Kathryn Stockett this morning, which doesn't have a film tie-in ( Read more... )

I've been doing a large amount of reading over the last few weeks, along with some random note-taking, in an effort to put together a research proposal for my PhD. It must have been percolating through my brain more than I realised, because I woke up this morning with some well-formed ideas running through my head, and so got up and sat in my ( Read more... )

Last night went better than I feared (of course). I was really very, very nervous and I ended up being the first in the class to have their script performed, which was even more scary as no-one knew what to expect. The actors did really well at it - probably the oddest sensation was watching them act out my stage directions in the moments with no ( Read more... )