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Sunshine-y!

August 8, 2011 | Random | 1 Comment

At home sick with the lurgy, but at least the lovely flowers Brain sent last week to help kick the PhD along are still bright and shiney.

You can see the PhD mess piled around them, and
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And so, to procrastination – I mean writing! Yes, writing.

May 13, 2011 | Random | Comments Off on And so, to procrastination – I mean writing! Yes, writing.

Friday is stretching in front of me and there are a variety of writing tasks to do. And it seems I’m not attracted to any of them. One is a re-write of the Intro to my PhD
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For I am a Nerd

March 14, 2011 | Random | 2 Comments

At midnight last night I finally finished the first draft of my PhD exegetical component. That is, the long essay that serves as a commentary to writing Sourdough and Other Stories. And I am such a nerd that my first gleeful thought was: I can read fiction on the train again!!!

It’s not my fault, I’m just made that way.

PhD Cat

July 25, 2010 | Random | 1 Comment

Wish I were as smart as this cat. I’ve spent all day working my PhD notes into something approaching an exegesis that won’t make my supervisor either (i) snort with laughter, (ii) throw something at me, or (iii) inflict self-harm
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