I have a new desk! This is very exciting. It has drawers and a bookcase thing, and looks like this, except in the beech finish instead of the oak.

Last week I also acquired a set of six shallow A4 filing drawers, which means there is a slight possibility I now have enough storage in my room to find homes for all the piles of paper that have been ( Read more... )

I'm back in Oxford after about two weeks at home. It was lovely to spend some solid time with my parents and just have a proper break.

My train journey back involved four trains (only three of which I actually travelled on: the fourth was one I was supposed to get but didn't), three of which were delayed, although on one occasion this worked in my ( Read more... )

I was on Cornmarket Street yesterday afternoon, and noticed a largeish crowd of people obviously watching something. There was music emanating from the centre of the crowd, so I assumed it was some kind of street performer, and attempted to peer in though the outer circle as I was passing. The spectacle captivating these folks turned out to be two ( Read more... )

This is an ice-breaking the-only-point-of-this-post-is-that-it-is-a-post sort of post ( Read more... )

(Number two in an occasional series ( Read more... )

For anyone in or within easy reach of Oxford ( Read more... )

I came across this site at work today (and yes, looking at this actually did count as legitimate work!), and thought there might be one or two people on my friends-list who might find it interesting.

Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Utopia - http://www.feministsf.org/femsf/

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In connection with something I was doing at work yesterday, I started wondering about academic blogging - specifically, the use people make of blogs written by professional academics in their field. It occurred to me that it might be worth asking you lot about this, given that many of you move in academic-y circles, and I know you all have blogs ( Read more... )

Given how much I have to fit in over the next couple of weeks, I think I'm probably going to have to accept that I'm not going to have time to update this every day. :-( But I am going to keep trying ( Read more... )