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  • Sound a fanfare

    Back to work tomorrow.  I did excavate my desk this afternoon, as it had disappeared underneath several stacks of papers.  I’m going to ease myself in gently with some reading.  For one thing, I need to remind myself what I was actually working on before I was taken ill, which I can’t really remember!  I…

  • Social Networking Since 1600

    Social Networking Since 1600. One of the organisers is my fellow picnic-er Katherine Fennelly, and I do hope to be there although it’s outside my research time-frame, unfortunately.

  • Really interesting… What a lucky girl I am… The Thesis Whisperer This post is by Cassily Charles from Charles Sturt University – a fellow thesis whisperer. Cassily is the Academic Writing Coordinator for Higher Degree by Research students in the CSU Academic Support Unit (ccharles@csu.edu.au). In this post, Cassily discusses misunderstandings about personal writing processes,…

  • Originally posted on patter: That half conscious state between sleeping and waking seems to be the time that I begin to compose a blog post. I often wake up relatively early with a half formed idea. I then work on it idly, gradually waking up, before finally getting up and getting it down. This post…

  • ‘The Lady With the Headache…’

      I swear that if I hear myself described as ‘the lady with the headache’ once more, I’m going to scream. Actually, I probably won’t, because it would hurt, but inwardly at any rate, I’d be doing a Munch. The word ‘headache’ alone doesn’t begin to describe it. Forget migraine, I’ve had them and this…