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  • Phone a desk friend at the library

    I was late to the library yesterday and was lucky to find my favourite desk still available. Now I love this desk, despite the implied nerdiness and even if it doesn’t, strictly, count as a desk, being as it is, a mere table, a long thin strip of book-sprawl potential jammed across the end of… Read more

  • One tomato two tomato three tomato four

    Been struggling this past week to fit in both day job and dissertation and still have time for sleep and sanity. So I thought I’d give the Pomodoro technique a go. Like many shiny new things it was designed by an IT student in his spare time and it supposedly helps you focus and time… Read more

  • In your own words, please…

    Today I shall do as I am paid and write words for other people to claim that they said. Even though we allegedly take great care, marking words off carefully with speech marks to denote what, exactly, someone actually said, and what it is merely reported they did. It’s a nice distinction and one to… Read more

  • In praise of study cats

    There is something oddly insulting about the term ‘cat blog,’ which I understand to mean the kind of scribbling rant which could only be written by a woman, as raving and decrepit as the animals whose odor pervades her solitary existence. I say ‘oddly,’ as I suspect there is nothing as shared on the internet… Read more

  • A heartbreaking dot of staggering genius

    I was trying to concentrate on an MA assignment I’ve to write on Greek tragedy and a quatrain started woodpeckering round my brain in that way, procrastination, deadline, or no, you just have to go google it. The lines were: And how one can imagine oneself among them I do not know; It was all… Read more