Archive for February, 2007
Here We Go
There goes my clever little day off in the middle of the week. I’m doing not two but three tutorials this term, which means that with my own courses I have at least one thing on every day.
Now something completely unrelated. The Whitby Goth Weekend as reported on very nicely by the BBC. For once, […]Good and Bad
1. I must be doing something right if the references in the books I’m wading through are suddenly to books I’ve already read.
2. Why are journals so hard to locate?Rrrrrr
Penni posted ten things she likes that begin with D and has bestowed upon me the letter R. Although research is something quite close to my heart, I’ll start off the list with Reunions. Given the amount of traveling I’ve done (and plan to keep doing), reunions figure pretty heavily in my life, at least […]
Useless Information
So I now have a huge stack of books threatening to topple onto my poor little laptop and crush it under their weight. All about translation, of course. As if I’m going to be able (through osmosis, maybe?) to absorb all their relevant content and produce an elegantly argued thesis clearly well-grounded in the current […]
Time Flies
Happy birthday, Aunty Shelly.
Time and Translation
Time seems to fly and crawl simultaneously sometimes. I don’t quite get it, but there you go. I’ll be slogging away at something utterly boringly unending and suddenly the week’s gone. Again. It’s like being stuck in a vacuum while time rushes past around me.
The new semester starts on the Feb 26. I’m quite ready […]