New computer delivered and installed yesterday. My first desktop. An excellent deal, and the chap who delivered it set it all up for me, even found my IP address which I had forgotten, installed all the software, tested the printer, checked that my DVDs would work and even talked me through where everything plugs in. Hurrah for such excellent ( Read more... )

OK, this is not very interesting but it is preoccupying me. I always try and get up at a sensible time because I like the mornings and I especially like the fact that no-one else in my house (with the odd likeable exception) is up in the mornings. So I get up some time between 7 and 8.15 and go down and have breakfast. I'm never hungry in the ( Read more... )

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I have just paid for a DVD drive for my laptop - to be delivered within a week. DVD suggestions anyone?

Silly book meme, and a bit of an odd selection, but once I'd read it all the way through I thought I might as well post it. Why so many Jacqueline Wilson, for a start, has anyone read any of them?

Does anyone else keep a list of all the books they read? I have done so since I was about 14.

*bold those you’ve read
*italicise started-but-never- ( Read more... )

As usual, it has been a very long time since I updated this. Kept beginning to do so and then abandoning it on the basis that no-one would read it, but a couple of people have mentioned my failure to write anything, so I suppose I should. For convenience sake, it's in several sections:

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Not mine, I hasten to add. But a close friend e-mailed me yesterday to tell me she's expecting a baby. This is very exciting - and also very unexpected (all round), as she is not married and not in a long-term relationship. Of all my friends, she is one of those I would least have expected to announce this. She is about 3 and a half months in and ( Read more... )

In response to a particularly difficult couple of weeks, capped by some moderately stressful health news, I caught myself comfort-buying "A New Short Guide to the Accentuation of Ancient Greek" yesterday. Clearly I am seriously sad. I can recommend it though. I've always been embarrassed that I've never learnt to accent Greek properly. It was never ( Read more... )

Hmm, well: current state of affairs ( Read more... )

After working 12 hour days in the library for most of the last 3 weeks I have finished a CHAPTER! Hurrah. (This probably doesn't mean much except to other PhD students, but I'm pleased). It's on Jonson's use of Horatian and Juvenalian satire, coming in at around 15,000 words. Haven't had feed-back on it yet (that's this afternoon) but even if he ( Read more... )