June 2007 - Posts

Leek and Marscapone Gnocchi
25 June 07 08:51 AM
My first run of this recipe involved a pleasing amount of home-made/grown ingredients, with the exception of the gnocchi (which I know how to make but decided not to, in the interests of dinner before 9pm). But I like the recipie so much I made it again Read More...
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Day in the Life 8: Pub O'Clock and Good Night
20 June 07 04:56 PM
And because it wouldn't be a day in the life of a postgrad if alcohol wasn't involved somehow, I'm off for drinks before going home. Plans for tonight are cooking dinner, proofing another three articles to get back on schedule, and watching Heroes . Goodnight Read More...
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Day in the Life 7: Boundaries of Research?
20 June 07 04:08 PM
I've been flicking through Lois McMaster Bujold's Ethan of Athos , one of the books I'm planning to discuss in the current chapter, which has led me to ask: if this day is about what research students do, then does that question depend on the definition Read More...
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Day in the Life 6: Tea time too
20 June 07 03:23 PM
I'm just back from afternoon tea (one of the cute (not-so) little cupcakes over at Neds). Is it just me, or do postgraduates have an obsession with food? I know that my mother was quite shocked when, on her recent arrival at the house, I offered to introduce Read More...
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Day in the Life 5: Some Context
20 June 07 01:55 PM
I'm staring blankly at the screen, so I figured I might as well start on this next post, in which I plan to talk about the thesis and my writing process. While I don't want to go too much into specifics - either you the reader won't care, or if you do, Read More...
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Day in the Life 4: Nutrition? We Don't Need No Stinking Nutrition!
20 June 07 01:07 PM
By which title you might guess, I had Guild food for lunch. (The other quote that comes to mind is the second marriage being 'the triumph of hope over experience' - it always returns to me as I stand in the queue, for some reason). I suppose there are Read More...
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Day in the Life 3: Pre-emptive Strike
20 June 07 11:44 AM
I'm off for a meeting at 12, so I'll leave readers with a link to further reading the may be of interest: Horace's Required Reading for Graduate Students . Read More...
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Day in the Life 2: By the Numbers
20 June 07 11:02 AM
New words: 114 Percentage of new words that I think will need to be re-written: 80% (because text titles and joining words will have to stay in) Spam deleted: 286 Coffee breaks for the day: 1 Caffeinated beverages: 1 (Coke Zero - don't judge me) Vaguely Read More...
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Day in the Life 1: Possibly TMI About Domestic Chores
20 June 07 10:08 AM
Well, given my home computer has gone from 'mostly dead' to 'all dead' (and even before that, it resided in dial-up hell) this 10am check-in is my first 'day in the life' post, and will be mostly filled with an account of pottering aroud the house this Read More...
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'Day in the Life' - 1
19 June 07 08:35 AM
Tomorrow is 'Day in the Life' Day! (Okay, it doesn't sound so catchy when put like that). Still, as Sanna has reminded us , this is a chance to break blog silence and to find out how other research students get through a day. See you tomorrow! Read More...
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Language and Opinions: Do You Really Want to Hear What I Think?
14 June 07 09:24 AM
I am a sad person that fantasises that one day I will be called for one of those 'who will you vote for at the next election' and 'who is your preferred prime minister polls' because, goddamit, my opinion is important (a tendancy that I'm afraid has been Read More...
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Challenge: A Day in the Life
13 June 07 04:35 PM
What do research students actually do? It's a question we all get hit with: at family events, by undergraduates, by acquaintances from long ago randomly encountered at the shops, as an occasional wail of despair to ourselves, or to each other across disciplinary Read More...
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As long as a piece of string...
13 June 07 11:59 AM
After Wayne's post on waiting for responses , I thought I'd share my current state of waiting with the blogosphere. At the moment I am waiting on: any news about the edited collection I've had a chapter accepted for to find out when the one-off editorial Read More...
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Breakfast (Hang-over) Bake
04 June 07 03:09 PM
This recipe comes from my sister, and today seems a good day to share it - given the suspiciously quiet Scholars Centre. The Breakfast (Hang-over) Bake has all the important post-big night out breakfast components, and is prepared in advance, so all you Read More...
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Produce
01 June 07 03:35 PM
Gardening, like cooking, helps keep me grounded - quite literally, I suppose, when playing with soil, but also in the general sense of occasional immersion in seasonality, in 'wholesomeness' and 'sustainability' (however much I might also want to interrogate Read More...
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