Having completed a PhD myself (my graduation was on 2 July, which was the first day of the summer graduation ceremonies, and I was the first person on stage, making me the first Queen's graduate of 2007!) and with my brothers doing PhDs in astrophysics, I both sympathesise with and find highly amusing the news that Brian May has finally completed ( Read more... )

My hands are very cold right now. My bedroom is freezing ( Read more... )

So, reading week - that handy midway week in which there are no lectures or tutorials - is over. And I am still shattered. I have the tail end of a nasty cold clinging to me, I'm white as a ghost and I have no enthusiasm for work at all. Teaching is draining me this year. Last year, it energised me. Blah ( Read more... )

Hi *waves sheepishly* Just a quick note to say, I'm gonna be out of circulation for a while longer. Leon has (thankfully) dropped the idea of a fourth chapter, so now I'm working frantically at making the chapters I have look as long as possible. Thank goodness footnotes are included in the word count, I say! Anyway, it's probable that you won' ( Read more... )

I hate my supervisor ( Read more... )

Mum and Dad are "discussing" changing Dad's car. Hence, you must forgive any bitsiness or non-properly composed part of this post, cos it's hard to write a nice little interconnected spiel when you're eavesdropping on your parents XD ( Read more... )

Contrary to popular belief, I have not fallen off the edge of the universe. Nor have I been abducted by aliens or had my mind wiped by men in black. I have been busy and my dial-up connection has been playing silly buggers. I did have a massive entry written but lost it due to my somehow deleting a password >.< but here are the brief highlights ( Read more... )

This current chapter is going so, so well. After the horror of my second chapter, I was so afraid I would be wading through another pile of crap to get this one done, but I'm progressing really well. I have all the crappy, general introduction stuff done, I have FINISHED with Derrida (yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyy!!!), and I have two months in which to ( Read more... )

I haven't been on LJ - well, for a while now. I check up when I can but I tend to respond now only if it's a Major Important Post cos it seems silly to respond to anything else a decade after it's happened. So if you haven't seen me talking, I'm still here, it's just your life is normal ( Read more... )

Just spent far too long reading my friends page *drops dead* Yeesh, you people have too much happening in your lives! Why can't you be boring like me?? :P And worse, there's piles of memes and quizzes. I haven't felt like doing any in a long time, but I'm sorely tempted today... However, I also need to get some work done cos I took yesterday ( Read more... )