Tour de Thesis

Published 06 July 07 04:50 PM

Over the next few weeks, I'm planning to combine two obessions - the thesis and the Tour de France. Much to the amusement of just about everyone who knows me, I've become a Tour fan in the last few years: staying up late to watch the live broadcast on SBS, sharing Tour trivia with anyone silly enough to ask, egging on friends in Europe to stand on the roadside in silly costumes. The amusement comes from the fact that my bicycle is actually more of a habitat for spiders, and in general, I'm not into sport at all.

Nonetheless, I figure that sitting myself in front of the TV with my laptop means that I'll have a regular schedule for writing - and the excuse to make bad analogies between cycling and thesis writing! There will, I think, be more in common with Le Tour de Lounge than the Tour itself.

by Karen.Hall
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# Sanna said on July 9, 2007 5:11 PM:

Personally I don't think I ask for too muchy in life, but what I would really really want (a-zig-a-zig-ah) would be for SBS to get the right to the Olympics as well.

SBS, the only channel that knows how to do sports coverage, the only channel that wouldn't spend the entire fortnight mediafellating the Australian swimming team, the only channel that would show some skiing heats live, the only channel whose presenters know how to pronounce foreign names. Ah, SBS.

...sorry, what were we talking about?

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About Karen.Hall

I've recently submitted my PhD thesis, titled 'Discovering the Lost Race Story: Writing Science Fiction, Writing Temporality', for examination. In the meantime, I'm teaching in the discipline of Communication Studies at UWA and starting a new project on medievalism and media through a Whitfeld Fellowship.