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06:20 Got out of bed (this time gets later as the week progresses). This is the first big departure from my Australian schedule, plentiful early morning sunlight makes getting up early much easier in Sweden. 07:30 Arrived at work. My office neighbour (and good friend) U didn't notice me arrive, so I was spared his declaration of victory ...

And for those of us who are not research students: 5am: Get up to feed kitten and then go back to bed. 7am: Get up to keep kitten company, make tea, read email, myResearchSpace and online news, then wake 11 year old and get him ready for school. 8:30am: Go to work. Organise a car service for Friday, grab the first coffee of the day (UniClub) ...

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 all - and thanks for joining in!

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 of research? If research, for English researchers at least, is reading/watching and thinking and ...

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 her to Pierre and Norman - Pierre and Norman being the two camembert cheeses that I'm in ...

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, I'd rather you read a more polished version - I hope it is enough to say that I'm looking at a ...

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 some large points to be made here: about institutional food and institutional identity and the ...

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.

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 interesting ideas that I'm sure I'll be over by the end of the day: 2 (ideas about ...

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 morning. The chores have fallen behind a little, as I took to my bed on Monday with a bout of ...