This has been my life mainly lately:
Dissertation and the like in pyjamas.
The rest of my life has involved...
I genuinely loved this book, so I hope that came across.
I had a visit from
Flambard Press at the uni a couple of weeks ago. And something exciting is on the cards for me once I finish my time with Mslexia. Ooh.
After my meeting next week I'll say something more, heaven forbid I jinx it!
The lighting was so good, which is perhaps not what most people would comment on, but hey whoever did the lighting, big shout out. It was perfect. Really suited the mood.
I missed the opening act, but the second support act I had actually never heard of. But now love.
There's been a couple of cinema trips too, we're going way way back here, but I went to see
Involuntary as part of the
Northern Lights Film Festival, a collection of short films chopped up and pieced together. There isn't any underlying theme, but each is interesting in and of itself.
It was interesting, though I wouldn't go out and buy it.
Naked Youth was the other NLFF film I saw. I couldn't quite get away with it. Maybe it was a cultural gap, a time gap, the fact it had been re-dubbed and all of the kisses were silent which annoyed and entertained me in equal measure. But it's good to experience different things, and for me, different this indeed was.
This follows a very odd scene.
I don't want Hollywood to re-make it, it's stunning as it is. It isn't that hard to read subtitles people.
This is from waaaaay back, but check out my wrapping for Mothers' Day. Skills.
Yes those are home-made crisps and dips. I rock.
I took a plunge the other day, and submitted an article to
Mooky Chick. Lucky me, the lovely ladies agreed to
publish it on the website, which I am incredibly happy about. However, it has raised a question. To what degree have I shot myself in the foot? I would like to work in education. This article is about lesbianism. It isn't explicit, it is a rant about the judgemental attitudes people have based on appearance. The 'too pretty to be a lesbian' syndrome.
Now, it may be against government policy for any employer to discriminate based on sexual preference, but I know that when it comes to schools they conveniently overlook this. Staff can't be seen to promote the queer lifestyle and all its sins. This is in mainstream, non-denomination schools, not faith schools. I've asked around, I know teachers, it's true. Where other teachers can bang on about their spouses and children, the same-sex inclined are pressured to keep schtum, school is not the place to divulge such information. But what happens when these queer teachers marry? When they have children? Are they supposed to keep their name the same on their door, to never mention their child and hide all photos?
So maybe it's for the best that I have potentially shot myself in the foot anyway.
Oh and finally, there's an e-edition of
First Edition available on the website. Finally.
If I could find the lead for my camera I'd put up the photos of all the lovely books I got for my birthday. However, I can't. Oh well. I think that's pretty much everything summed up! Ta-ra.
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