I GOT MY PHD ACCEPTANCE!!!

that is all!

I have been absent from lj for quite a while. In part due to finishing my thesis and just wanting to be away from a computer, in part because my computer got destroyed in January, and in part because a lot of my original friends from lj are no longer on lj. But now I'm back and feel like randomly posting, see if it sticks this time.

So, I am writing ( Read more... )

So I haven't posted since October which is atrocious, but life has been hectic and busy and I haven't been mooching around the internet as much - definately straight after submission I just didn't want anything to do with my computer for a while.

My life in point form over the last couple of months:
- Got First class Honours - 84.75% overall for the ( Read more... )

Thesis is SUBMITTED

super super super relieved. Was actually happy with the final product... more relieved that it was over, it was a tough two weeks up to the end. I was so tired and stressed, I just felt constantly nauseous from not sleeping enough (17hour days at uni... often here from 8am till after midnight), and couldn't switch my brain off ( Read more... )

42 writers protest the 42 day holding period in the UK   by writing a story/poem/essay.

And the world is going to shit.
Couldn't have said it better or more flippently myself, although apparently it convinced the german blogosphere that it was real (suckers!):


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I watched the VP debate on Friday. I don't even live in America and I'm scared for the future of the world.

A plea to vote...non-partisan, now there is something new.... you should watch it

It'll be an interesting world on November 5th - for better or worse.

With love,

Yes yes, I keep harking on about it, but Phillip Pullman has commented on his being on the list (which apparently is only based on about 500 'formal' complaints, so not sure about the weight of it really?... oh look Helen has been analysing tooooo much this year).

Its after 10pm and I'm still at uni. Going to be here a while longer. Just sent my ( Read more... )

Further to my previous post, the 10 most frequently challenged books from last year  (2007) are up  - no surprises Phillip Pullman is there (oh look! the movie is based on a book!??! Lies! Trechery! Treason!).

I have 18 days left. Sending Di a complete draft today which is exciting/scary.

Otherwise things have been... stressful. But have found space ( Read more... )

The world is a very screwed place..... I bet the people who complained about these books had probably never read them and had just seen a word they didn't like in the title. Anyways.... I could turn this into a rant about the stupidity of certain (and I stress CERTAIN and not ALL in any way) Americans that are so scared of the world that they are ( Read more... )

Sometimes amongst all the horrible stories I'm reading for this thesis there is something that makes it worthwhile.

“I asked the group of [Angolan] children who lived on the streets in front of my boarding room if I could passear-go about-with them one day. Sure, they said, and came to collect me the next morning. They ranged in age from eight to ( Read more... )