Totally crazy day today, ended up being interviewed by both Channel M and BBC Radio Manchester about waste and recycling on behalf of Manchester Friends of the Earth. It was a bit nerve wracking, especially as the radio interview went out live (Channel M interview goes out tomorrow at 5pm and 9pm I’ve been told), […]
Happy New Year
Last night I went to Sarah’s house party last night which was great fun, although I only knew a few people there. We ended up scaling a maintenance ladder to get on the roof in time for the fireworks at midnight—it was amazing being able to look out over a large part of Manchester and […]
Review of the year
I did this in 2004 and 2005 so here I go again… Review of 2006 Best bands seen: I haven’t seen any bands this year, unless you include Razorlight and KT Tunstall and I didn’t really ‘see’ them. Worst bands: As above. 🙂 Exotic towns/cities visited: I haven’t been anywhere special this year, mainly because […]
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas everyone. 🙂 (will post a proper update when I get five minutes peace).
Abstract coordination
My abstract for APCHC was accepted, woohoo! I really didn’t expect this to happen so it was fantastic when I got the email about it. The conference is a great place to present my first proper academic paper and having done something like this will probably look good if I apply for a PhD at […]
Paperness
I’ve just sent in an abstract for the Annual Postgraduate Conference in History and Classics. The conference is supposed to be a place where MA and first year PhD students can present their research in a friendly environment, so it will hopefully give me a chance to present a paper for the first time. I’m […]
Where to from here?
For the last couple of months I’ve been worrying about work, jobs and further study, but now it’s being mentioned a lot more within my department and people keep asking me what I want to do when I finish my masters. The honest answer is that I don’t really know, which worries me somewhat, although […]
General busy-ness
I’ve been stupidly busy the last few weeks, so here is just a quickly hacked together update of what I’ve got up to. MA stuff Last week I got told the results of my mid-semester Latin test, which ended up battering my confidence to pieces when I found out that I’d only got 34%. I […]
Birthday weekend
My youngest sister amused me this weekend by buying a copy of ‘Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis’ (the first Harry Potter book, translated into Latin) for my birthday. She’s a big Harry Potter fan and is always trying to get me to read the books, although I don’t think my Latin is quite up to […]
Catching up on the last few weeks
The useless organisation that is British Telcommunications plc has managed to stuff up my phone line in various ways over the last two weeks, leaving me with no access to the Internet for the most part and a huge backlog of emails and RSS feeds to catch up on, and this is a minimised update […]