Last week I finally delivered my paper at the postgraduate conference that I’d been worrying about for several months. It went much better than I expected and I was told that I managed to field all the questions admirably. About two minutes before I was due to go in, several people came over to say […]
Fame at last!
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 […]