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Juggling
This is going to be an interesting week. I’m starting my proper research on the Marian ballads. So far I’ve written quite a bit about two of them – I’m splurging so that I can go back and edit all my ideas later. But there’s a lot on this week. I have various meetings and…
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ballads
Last night I sent off the beginning of my chapter to my supervisor, so this morning I am able to start work on an in depth investigation of the ballads. I’m glad to have finished with the historiography for a bit, and I’ve been looking forward to doing some of my own research again. I…
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Re-dressing my blog
I have been playing about with my blog theme – I’d written two other pages but the theme I was using didn’t show them. I’m not entirely satisfied with the new one, but at least you can see the page about me and the page about my secondary reading material, which, at the moment, doesn’t…
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Update on my ribcage
Just in case any of you are interested, I spent more than three hours in casualty this morning getting my ribs checked out, and having had an x-ray the doctors think they are probably not fractured. So they’ve given me stronger painkillers and told me to rest, which is fine by me. And as I…
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Bump, bump, clatter, clatter, clatter…
And then I fell down the stairs. I slipped off the top step for no apparent reason and slid all the way down the stairs on my back. I don’t recommend it. For one thing it is, as a friend put it, undignified. But for another, it’s hellishly painful. And what’s more, despite the excruciating…
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Clearing the desk.
On Monday morning I started the day by reading a couple of posts by the Thesis Whisperer. The first was on time management, and it gave me an idea. http://thethesiswhisperer.wordpress.com/2012/05/14/time-can-you-ever-really-manage-it/ I’ve wondered for a while whether the way I was taking notes was the most useful and practical, mainly because I suspected that it wasn’t. …
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Country Fayre
Today I have been at Bromley Cross Country Fayre, with the Bolton HA branch president, representing the branch. Last year it was really productive, and we talked to lots of people, so we were very enthusiastic about being there again. Unfortunately this year, a stall location in the back of beyond combined with traffic chaos…
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“Mama, tengo un dolor de cabeza…”
In the last week I’ve been working very hard on my Spanish, as I’ve had my end of term Spanish exams. The second written paper was last week, and my last day of revision was kiboshed by my eldest son being sent home from school at 11am having attempted to break the tarmac of the…
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Fighting the snake
The snake fight portion of your thesis defence: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq-the-snake-fight-portion-of-your-thesis-defense#.T57KGz08pjA.twitter Brilliant! Even my husband enjoyed it!
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