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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…
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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.
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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,…
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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…
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‘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…
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A Little Bit Excited
I’m about to go and meet a friend for coffee (well, in my case, tea) to discuss trying to put together a pnael for the EMREM symposium on Birth, Sex and Death (http://emremforum.wordpress.com/). I have no idea if I’ll even be able to get a babysitter to let me get to the conference, but the fact…
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My painting of the day
My favourite painting from this afternoon’s quick walk round parts of the National Gallery was Schedoni‘s portrait of the Holy Family, a little painting of the Virgin Mary teaching the infant Jesus to read, with Saint Joseph in the background. I will pass over my puzzlement over why Mary is attempting to teach a child…
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A new one on me…
As I write this (a day late – yes, I know), I have just passed through Stafford on the Pendolino, on my way back from London, where I attended the Historical Association’s Branches and Members Committee Meeting. It’s going dark outside the windows, and in the last quarter of an hour I’ve been watching lights…
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Panel 3
I was a bag of nerves on Tuesday evening, ahead of my panel meeting on Wednesday morning, as those who saw me that evening could testify. I go giggly when I’m nervous, and it makes people who don’t know me think I’m not taking things seriously, which is not the case. Terror doesn’t quite have…
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Floundering…
It’s always like this at the start of a new piece of work. The floundering. I’m starting to investigate the music, and I have spent the last day or two looking at modal theory, finding out about hexachords, looking in to the life and times of Archbishop Matthew Parker and playing with ballad tunes. I’ve…
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