I've been messing around with chapter 1 of my dissertation for months now. I've said for a very long time that the intro and chapter 1 would by far be the hardest, and I seriously hope I'm right ( Read more... )

When I'm doing dissertation work that requires a little brain power but not a lot*, I have a tendency to listen to the interviews at globeplayer.tv/museoffire of various actors, directors, etc. sounding off about Shakespeare. The project began as two guys doing interviews for a documentary, which I have and quite like, so some of the interviews ( Read more... )

I goofed off in the morning - worked on the Lego Star Destroyer I'm currently building, played a solo game of Legendary: The Marvel Deck Building Game, and played around on the internet ( Read more... )

LifeNothing new and major has gone wrong lately! In my world in 2015, that really is something to celebrate. My grandma still isn't doing well after the late May car accident. From everything I've heard, I will be somewhat surprised if she makes it to the end of the year, but I'm trying to keep that kind of in the back of my mind since I don't know ( Read more... )

Hooray!

Excerpt for anyone link leary:
John Finnemore is working on a new comedy series for Radio 4. The creator of Cabin Pressure and John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme is now working on The John Finnemore Project ( Read more... )

I'm feeling better at the moment. Nothing new has gone majorly wrong for me this week, though I have some friends in various rough patches. You know how sometimes when you've been down for a while and are desperate for anything good, the tiniest little good thing can make you happy all out or proportion? Well, I saw BBC Radio posted that there will ( Read more... )

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Hi! Long-time no see as seems to be happening a lot lately. This year has just got off to a very rough start. April hasn't been too bad so far, though, so I'm hoping the worst is over with. Just to say "Howdy!" again, I stole this 50 question meme from qwentoozla.

( My oh so fascinating answers to 50 rather random questions. )

Yesterday I ( Read more... )

My computer has been acting a bit funny for a couple of days and this morning randomly reset all the settings on several programs, refused to write anything to my external hard drive, and generally was a pain. When I tried to do a system restore to a save point last week, it kept erroring out and giving me a blue screen of death, which is never ( Read more... )