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A sigh of relief and more camping
This week I went up to Cumbria for a few days camping in Arnside, which was very nice. Definitely not glamping, but nice, not least because we didn’t have the torrential rain that we had in Oban. In fact, yesterday I got sunburned. Anyway, with my progression panel approaching rapidly, I decided that I would…
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Ignoring the Olympics
Lots of people that I know have been complaining about the Olympics, and how London 2012 is getting in the way of their thesis. Not in this house. I have no problem with the Olympics distracting me, partly because I have no interest in them, but mainly because there are too many other distractions in…
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Summertime…
Well, finally I have a date for my second panel, the progression panel, the one which I have been trying hard to think of as just another hoop that needs to be jumped through. 14th August. I have produced an abstract, bibliography and a draft chapter plan, and a rough plan of what I intend…
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Camping
This week I’ve had a week off. I’ve been in Scotland camping, and reading Judith Richards’ ‘Mary Tudor’. So it’s been a quiet week, and I deliberately didn’t take my chapter with me so that I can come back to it with fresh eyes in a week or two. I’m seeing my supervisor again next…
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Society for Renaissance Studies Conference
I’ve just spent three days at the Society for Renaissance Studies Conference in Manchester, and very stimulating it was too. It was nice to meet some new people and hear about their work, and a few people I’ve spoken to have been interested in my work and offered to keep in touch. There were some…
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The Doldrums
It hasn’t been a particularly good week for research and writing, I must say. The persistent, rainy weather hasn’t helped, and neither has the extra stress caused by the impending house move, but I really lost my way this week. After the writing group, I tried to implement some of the more useful changes they…
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Originally posted on Avoiding The Bears: In my most recent meeting with my supervisor, he made an observation that I think I’m going to come to regard as fateful. ‘There comes a time in a PhD’, he said, ‘when you have to stop lying’. It wasn’t quite as devastating as that appears. My supervisor has…
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Under Pressure…
I’ve not posted for a couple of weeks because I’ve been incredibly busy with life, the universe and everything. We are in the process of moving house, in as much as someone is buying ours and we are buying another, but as there is no chain at either end we need to be ready to…
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Commenting – a new method in my madness
This week I’ve been using the comment feature in word to mark up bits of my work that I’d had ideas about, or needed to do a bit more digging on. It was a new idea, brought on in part by a lack of confidence that they way I’d been working, the way I’ve always…
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Holiday!
I’ve had a week off. A real week off. I did absolutely no work. I went to Donegal with my extended family, and had a lovely, quiet week. I’m looking forward to getting stuck in tomorrow but I actually really enjoyed not doing any work at all. I did my sewing. I played on the…
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