I got my preliminary results (though still no feedback for one of my essays! grr) today for the three MA units plus my Latin exam. For the core unit I got 61%, although I knew this already, and for both of the 6,000 word essays I got 66%—which is pretty good seeing as that’s a […]
Sorting out stuff
Out of my flat I’ve finally moved out of my flat in Manchester and am back in Bury for the time being. It’s not much fun as I can’t easily get in for FoE meetings, but on the plus side I have hardly any outgoings and a much more pleasant environment to work on my […]
Doctor Who ‘most gay-friendly show’
At least according to Jason Pollock, chief executive of the Pride event: “Doctor Who is probably the most gay friendly show on our screens”. (source: Last of the Time Lords heads for GayPride via Kirk)
PhD thoughts
I still haven’t heard anything about the PhD opportunity in my old department, other than that funding has been applied for but they won’t know if it’s been granted for another month or so. I’ve tried looking for individual funding (the research councils only give money directly to universities for specific projects, rather than individuals), […]
Blink and you’ll miss it
Haven’t posted for a while due to essay deadlines, exams and just generally being busy… Blink This week’s Doctor Who was a bit weird, not to mention depressing. The Weeping Angels were extremely creepy, perhaps one of the most frightening (in terms of both visuals and what they do) Who monsters yet. The story itself […]
Powering up
Last weekend I spent more time in Birmingham (which is still as horrible as I remember it) for Power Up 2007, run by Friends of the Earth. It was a good, albeit short, time away from Manchester—the workshops were informative, the food was great (as is always the case at FoE events—why can’t classics conferences […]
Essays finished
After slogging away pretty much constantly for the past week, I’ve finally finished the two essays which together form a third of the mark for my MA. I’m fairly happy with both of them, more so with the Demes and Democracy one as I’ve had more time to research that area but the Later Roman […]
48 hours
Well, that was an interesting and rather unexpected 48 hours of randomness. Will post again if anything else happens as a result.
Northern Gathering
I’ve spent this weekend at the Northern Gathering 2007, which is a sort of residential weekend away for Friends of the Earth groups in the North of England. Basically we all go to a hostel somewhere (York this time), do some workshops, have a site visit and generally socialise and network with members of other […]
f2o to close its doors
I was a bit sad today when I opened my email to see a message from Dan Cody announcing that freedom2operate (f2o) will be shutting down in the next few weeks due to the time and cost of maintaining the service and the abuse of some of the free accounts. I don’t know if anyone […]