So we're now well and truly in the second half of the year, with December looming around far too few corners for my liking. But things are going okay. I just now finished the final (fingers crossed) edits on my seminar paper, which will be delivered with grandiloquence and pizazz this evening. It feels good to have written something I like, even ( Read more... )

So in my most exciting news of late, I have gotten myself a second hand macbook. It was a strange journey, and ended up not being a sale through ebay as I had expected, but so far things seem to be going well. It came pre-loaded with Office for mac, which is a relief, so now I just have to download all those other programs onto it ( Read more... )

It's a tricky skill that I havent't mastered for a research project of this scope. That will go for this long. I'm beginning to think I should keep some kind of journal of what I do in a day, what I pursue and what ideas I have, so I have something to look back on if I lose the trail ( Read more... )

I was given some advice this morning from my supervisor, which was SLOW DOWN ( Read more... )

here are some words i am tired of

• text
• context
• intertextual
• scholarship
• field

I had what you could call a productive day yesterday. Personally I think it's a somewhat generous description, but my word count is fast approaching unreasonable proportions. There's one critic in particular who, while I was reading my typed notes of his work, is so awesome that I couldn't fathom how to condense his arguments down any further, and ( Read more... )

i recently started re-reading the farseer trilogy, from lack of anything else inspiring on my bookshelves. they're really good.

however i discovered that the third book is missing. and i somehow have two copies of the first book in the second series. i suspect that what has happened is that mandellebrotte and i accidentally swapped - she probably has two copies ( Read more... )

The armchair guy got back to me - $900 plus GST if I supply the fabric for the two chairs. I consider this to be an awesome price, so we're going to go ahead with it ( Read more... )

the highlight of my day today was staying in bed until 10am reading pride and prejudice in my warm nesty bed. adam went to class and came back again and i had barely moved, and then he proved how awesome he was by going and getting me the coffee i'd been wanting all morning, but unable to drag myself out of bed for.

truly, he is the best of men!

(as ( Read more... )

I'm finally beginning to feel like I deserve to be here. I probably shouldn't get complacent about it, but I'm really enjoying the routine, the space, the light, the fact I finally pretty much have a regular desk. There's this great sense that I have reconnected to the life I've been missing for such a long while.

So far my days consist of making ( Read more... )