PhD Vlog 6: Vlogging Valletta
Second (of three) vlogs about my first academic conference presentation. … Read More PhD Vlog 6: Vlogging Valletta
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English Literature PhD vlog 2 – The First Week
Hi all! Last night I got around to recording my second PhD vlog, which you can watch below. I know that ‘the first week’ doesn’t sound like a very different title to ‘beginning my PhD’, but I wanted to record some of the confusion that I’ve felt in response to the blank slate of beginning… Read More English Literature PhD vlog 2 – The First Week
Acceptances
I’m going full time at work. I’m going to do a PhD. I’m in Torquay. What on earth is going on?… Read More Acceptances
Century
When you upload a post to WordPress, it likes to tell you how many blogs you’ve already posted. How handy, how useful, how nice of the servile, the obsequious machine to provide you with more than you asked for. But the Machine is not servile, so in its truer guise of dominance it appends an… Read More Century
New Things
I’m typing this on a new computer. What’s more, I’m typing this from a new flat. And I’m typing this with a steaming, fresh, agreeably pungent cup of brand new coffee beside me, although that one is possibly less newsworthy. If I was still working my way through the same old cup as April 13th,… Read More New Things
Secondary Words
It sits before me, pale, obstinately oblong. My white whale, beached. Ten thousand words fat. Ten thousand words which struggle through three unreal worlds, glance at many others in passing, and attempt to extract from the whole some kind of …conclusion? It’s due in on Tuesday morning. And I have no idea how to… Read More Secondary Words
Reasons to Remain 