My MA is panicking the absolute bejeesus out of me. It's not just the sheer amount of work I've got to do in such a short space of time (by July), it's the academic language, this whole idea of critical reading, critical thinking, critical writing, the fact that I have to read so bloody much, and in the immediate future the fact that the library ( Read more... )

I've been up since 6.30am. I had a bad dream and couldn't get back to sleep again. Davyd said "it's good you're up early, you'll have to be up early to fet to the aiport on Friday." No sympathy for the bad dream at all! Bastard ( Read more... )

I am studying for my Masters degree in Oxford. My lecturers live and work in Oxford, and one of the core texts for reading, written by one such lecturer himself, has been published by Oxford University Press (naturally). I purchased it on amazon.co.uk and was surprised that it took more than a week to arrive ( Read more... )

I'm having a good news/bad news week ( Read more... )

...one of the delightful children living in the house next door but one leaning out of an upstairs window to vomit onto the driveway below.

Lovely.

( I love these things )

The last two days I have been at college for the first two of seven taught sessions for the final year of my MA. Those are funny letters really, just two little letters and they fill me with a lot of anticipation of something better on the horizon, yet the dread of the monster project that I have to get out of the way in the meantime ( Read more... )

You have a good friend. Said good friend is known to be a moody bugger with changeable attitude, but is also known to be forgetful occasionally. Said good friend is having a party to which they have invited everyone in your social circle, except you. Do you ( Read more... )

I loathe Formula 1 Grand Prix motor racing with a passion. It's not a mild dislike arising from the terrible waste of the earth's resources just so that a bunch of men can prove to each other how big their penises are, although I do actually believe that. It's an extreme hatred ( Read more... )

PS if anyone wants the recipe for Spicy Malaysian Lemon Chicken I made it for myself earlier this week. And for those on a slimming world diet you can eat as much of it as you like and not put on weight!!!