chainsaw_poet97

Question Time

chainsaw_poet97 Mar 21, 2012 20:24

Questions courtesy of highfantastical

1. What would be your absolute dream job, if you could work anywhere in the world doing anything you wanted? (either dream academic job or some other fantasy career!)
I'm in one of those phases where I really love being in the academy - this feeling waxes and wanes - so being an academic is currently the dream job. I think my ( Read more... )

books, memes, the boyfriend, travels, academia

Weekend

chainsaw_poet97 Jan 08, 2012 20:09

Up and down weekend. Downs are that a) I have a cold (urgh), and b) my kidneys started hurting in the middle of the night and haven't really stopped. At least I think it's my kidneys - mid back, both sides, doesn't feel muscular, so that's what I'm going for. Not really sure why - no temperature so I guess not an infection - but apparently the anti ( Read more... )

fangirling like crazy, cookery, born to run, the boyfriend

The Critic and the Monster

chainsaw_poet97 Jan 05, 2012 23:20

I'm currently half way through writing my first undergraduate lecture, which I have given the hideously corny title of 'Seeing Double: Frankenstein, Doppelgangers and the Transatlantic'. Moreover, it contains pictures of Benedict Cumberbatch and Johnny Lee Miller, a clip from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and a reference to Twilight in order to be down ( Read more... )

franken-lecture, it's motherf**king oxford, keele, transatlanticism, faking being a lecturer, academia

Year End Meme's and New Year's Resolutions.

chainsaw_poet97 Jan 02, 2012 17:19

Hiatus over. It's been 9 months, last count.

Firstly, I'm fine. Honestly, whatever you read next, I'm fine.

For quite a lot of this year, things were not quite so fine, in ways that I found very hard to talk about - mostly because I've come to learn that I equate being happy with being successful, and I put undue weight on the latter. I've also ( Read more... )

opening up, back for good, memes, new year

if at first you don't succeed...

chainsaw_poet97 Dec 30, 2004 15:45

i am still in my pajamas and it is four o clock. yay me ( Read more... )

the obligatory post-xmas run down

chainsaw_poet97 Dec 27, 2004 12:19

what i got from various people ( Read more... )

(Untitled)

chainsaw_poet97 Dec 19, 2004 19:11

( a review of the year )

so here is my weekend of morrissey goodness.

chainsaw_poet97 Dec 19, 2004 14:49

harriet and i nearly missed the 11.40 from stratford to london and when we did get on the very sweet conductor managed to charge us the wrong fare (thinking we were only going down the road to leamington instead of all the way to marlybone). but we sorted all that out and settle in for the two hour journey down accompanined by a) my smiths cd; b) a ( Read more... )

this is what you get...

chainsaw_poet97 Dec 16, 2004 22:14

listening to radiohead. contemplating that tomorrow i shall be attending a history party (in school time, i'd like to say) as heudrich zwingli, master of the swiss reformation and carrying quaker oat flapjacks with 'family of love 1540' spelled across them in icing letters. not that i take this at all seriously, you understand ( Read more... )

that was the week that wasn't

chainsaw_poet97 Dec 12, 2004 20:21

i'll be glad when monday comes around to put this week firmly in the past. not that there hasn't been good bits... there's just been some shitty stuff too ( Read more... )