Things That I Do Not Really Understand1. Why, when you tell people that you're doing a PhD they say "ohh that sounds hard, what are you doing it in?" and then you reply "music" and they say "Oh, that must be fun". NO IT IS NOT ARBITARILY MORE FUN IF IT'S MUSIC. A PHD IS A PHD. Jesus ( Read more... )

Okay. So things've just generally gotten to the point where I'm doing stuff, but have no idea why or what for. Being on autopilot isn't really that great when it's your life. It's like there's just sheerly so many things to get done that I stop asking why. And that's kind of frustrating, because I am actually conscious of a part of my brain just ( Read more... )

You know, after having been provided with a couple of references lately, I'm starting to wonder how much folk make up when they write you a reference, how much is true, and how apparently wacked my own opinion of my "scholarly" abilities is ( Read more... )

So I may or may not have (read: definitely did) buy a pair of white Doc Martens online from General Pants Co this morning. I've never been a particularly massive fan of white--it gets dirty too easily, it's not black, etc etc--but I think for winter I'm going to branch back out to the black/white/garnet red (and dark navy because that's the colour ( Read more... )

Oh, while I usually cope well with My Situation, sometimes it fails, and when it fails, it fails epically ( Read more... )

The cruel irony of academia seems to be, the more you think a topic is ripe for the picking the more someone else will have already inevitably gotten the ladder out in preparation for harvesting ( Read more... )

So I am supposed to contact One Of the Leading Dude In My Field today via email. This is super intimidating because oh Jesus, what if he thinks I'm a moron. So basically no different from sending any other email. But I digress. This still means I have to draft and see what The Indecisive Supervisors think ( Read more... )

Dear Uni,

How am I supposed to learn to teach at a university if you will not let me teach?

No love,
Katie.

Dear Me ( Read more... )

Ten Things on a Tuesday:1. I have a ridiculously hilarious World Series Cricket replica shirt to wear to the cricket on Sunday. Got one for my brother too, so we shall be bogan together ( Read more... )