Update
Another month on...
I got really good trip to Finland at the end of July. As well as Ropecon (write-up on my larp_musings blog) I also visited Tampere Uni to enroll. I'm now oficially a PhD student. In reality, I'm using August to focus on trying to get my current courses finished and out the way.
- arts course. tiny last assignment to go, and then a proper length assignment for the end of course assessment. Deadline is 13/9, but I've finished all the reading so may as well get on with it. The last section on leisure and the seaside touched nicely on game studies.
- material culture course. Managed to get the second assignment (group wiki project) done. One more to go (I'm ahead with the reading) and then the exam on 10/10.
- Creative writing course came back as high 2:2 grade pass. For one of the assignments, I loosely based a short story on my play experiences of Just a Little Loving, and for the end assessment I based it on the BRCA disorder (from the Curse jeepform).
I'm planning to stop when that is complete. That said, I am considering enrolling in a tiny 10 week digital photography / abode photoshop lightroom course they offer, partly for general interest and partly to retain my student status with them for another year.
Work is pretty good lately, except for the fact they won't reduce my hours. I want to go down for 3-4 days a week to focus on the PhD. I am job hunting (one interview so far) for other civil service roles locally, or a research assistant type role in a university (which I would relocate for). I'm not desperate to move on however.
>future plans
I'm going up to an ars magica convention in cheltenham next week. Includes at least one freeform larp, and one adaptation of my black dog psychodrama scenario to the ars magica setting.
I'm flying to Edinburgh at the end of the month. Catching the last weekend of the fringe, then going to an academic conference of larp on the monday-tuesday, including a demo larp for the academics run by nordic friends of mine.
After that, next trip is going as a guest to a czech freeform convention at the end of October/November, with a 2 day pre-week of tourism included.
>current projects
- finish humanities courses
- job applications
- grant applications
- PhD related work
- scenario writing for Fastaval (got a couple of ideas)
- scenario writing for Green Book 3 (good progress so far, including a first playtest done)
- write pitch for a docu project I'm involved in. More news if it progresses.
I got really good trip to Finland at the end of July. As well as Ropecon (write-up on my larp_musings blog) I also visited Tampere Uni to enroll. I'm now oficially a PhD student. In reality, I'm using August to focus on trying to get my current courses finished and out the way.
- arts course. tiny last assignment to go, and then a proper length assignment for the end of course assessment. Deadline is 13/9, but I've finished all the reading so may as well get on with it. The last section on leisure and the seaside touched nicely on game studies.
- material culture course. Managed to get the second assignment (group wiki project) done. One more to go (I'm ahead with the reading) and then the exam on 10/10.
- Creative writing course came back as high 2:2 grade pass. For one of the assignments, I loosely based a short story on my play experiences of Just a Little Loving, and for the end assessment I based it on the BRCA disorder (from the Curse jeepform).
I'm planning to stop when that is complete. That said, I am considering enrolling in a tiny 10 week digital photography / abode photoshop lightroom course they offer, partly for general interest and partly to retain my student status with them for another year.
Work is pretty good lately, except for the fact they won't reduce my hours. I want to go down for 3-4 days a week to focus on the PhD. I am job hunting (one interview so far) for other civil service roles locally, or a research assistant type role in a university (which I would relocate for). I'm not desperate to move on however.
>future plans
I'm going up to an ars magica convention in cheltenham next week. Includes at least one freeform larp, and one adaptation of my black dog psychodrama scenario to the ars magica setting.
I'm flying to Edinburgh at the end of the month. Catching the last weekend of the fringe, then going to an academic conference of larp on the monday-tuesday, including a demo larp for the academics run by nordic friends of mine.
After that, next trip is going as a guest to a czech freeform convention at the end of October/November, with a 2 day pre-week of tourism included.
>current projects
- finish humanities courses
- job applications
- grant applications
- PhD related work
- scenario writing for Fastaval (got a couple of ideas)
- scenario writing for Green Book 3 (good progress so far, including a first playtest done)
- write pitch for a docu project I'm involved in. More news if it progresses.