The responses to my survey so far would suggest the following conclusion: PhD students are very keen to procrastinate.

I really want my job title to be 'Librarian In Charge'.

Yes! Within a week of turning 28 and I was just asked whether I was over eighteen when buying pink wine!

Peter Pan in Scarlet - Geraldine McCaughrean ( Read more... )

( I have read a thing or two since the last updating )

After what was obviously a suspiciously long period of good behaviour, my printer has decided it is time to stop working. I have uninstalled and reinstalled it, which usually works (I have the driver disk) but not this time: every time I plug it in, I get an error message saying 'One of the USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned, ( Read more... )

Hooray! Hooray! Although I must say that I vastly prefer the tack taken by myself and excelsiora of being promiscuously obsessed with both. Surely this is why the human brain has two halves?

According to the reader comments on the BBC website, the reason you can't take books and newspapers is because they can easily be soaked in flammable materials which are highly combustible, even when dry ( Read more... )

Hooray! My essential travel documents are made of paper, so if I write really really small I could probably manage at least a short story on it. Or I could write on paper from the loos as people do in extreme circumstances when incarcerated without writing implements ( Read more... )

OH MY GOD I CAN'T TAKE A BOOK ON THE 11-HOUR FLIGHT.Although you are allowed essential medical supplies...I wonder if I could construct a case from this? I have the appropriate research references at my fingertips...but then, I'd probably just get arrested or shot or something given the current trigger-happy state of, well, everybody ( Read more... )