'Pre-blog Posts' Category
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 […]Tales from the City
Just finished watching Tales from the City and More Tales from the City, based on Armistead Maupin’s series of books of the same title. I read Maupin’s books back in high school - in Nepal, I think - and enjoyed the whole saga of 28 Barbary Lane. The series is pretty faithful to the original […]
Excuses, excuses
Story writing is a pain. Mostly because I think of the way I want things to end first and then work my way backwards to what set them off in the first place. Of course, when you get down to actual writing, you have to do it from beginning to end–even the bits and pieces. […]
Happy New Year
Talk about a long break. Things have changed quite a bit since my last post. I’m on an entirely new continent, back in school, working on a thesis and, most importantly, just writing again. I’ve met some amazing people in the short time I’ve been here, attended a wedding, learnt to ’swim’ (hey, if you […]
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