I started using LJ when I was in university. Back then, I posted regularly (so long as it was a term-time weekday, since at home we were mired in the Dark Ages of dial-up). I haven't checked but I'd say it was usually every day. And since I went on to complete a Master's and a PhD, that pattern continued for a while ( Read more... )

...I've had a reminder tonight of exactly why I left academia. Writers' group was supposed to be holding a poetry writing workshop. It turned into part-lecture, part-tutorial about poetic theory, the nature of meaning and the audience-as-author, with a little bit of biographical/historicist material for good measure. Roland Barthes got mentioned ( Read more... )

It's cold, windy and raining. Time to block up draughts and sit in front of the fire. 'Course, it doesn't help that dad's been trying to varnish/repair our window frames, which means there are draughts in several rooms.

I've become addicted again to the Sims 2. I do have slightly more time for it, I suppose, now the thesis is merely on " ( Read more... )

Hello again, folks. Having submitted the thesis, I took some time off. Thank you all for your messages of congratulation, they were warmly appreciated ( Read more... )

I am spectacularly bad at it. I need to see people's faces, to see how they react, what they're looking at. It's always helpful to know what the other person can see around them, cos if a gap in the conversation comes, you can fill it in with some random observation of the surroundings ( Read more... )

( Swiped from Skwerlie )