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Progress!

Writing The Long Way Around

I feel dreadful today which is such a huge improvement as to how I have been feeling the past week and a half that I am damn near jumping for joy. I know this is a little rigid but I hate people who have the cold. Well, I hate when people who have the cold insist on coming out in public and treating us all to a blow by blow account of their suffering. I simply can’t bear the sniffing, spluttering, gasping, coughing and groaning. So of course I have been driving myself nuts with the sniffing et al, and … Continue reading Progress!

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Normal Service Will Return Soon

Writing The Long Way Around

I have been so sick this past week; I am exhausted. I had to request an extension for two papers due on 04 December and have missed some much needed work. Even my eyelashes hurt from retching and coughing and I think I have lost 7lbs through fevered tossing. I also had the worst fevered tossed nightmare that featured the entire contents of The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, my sister, Red Riding Hood, failing both assignments and having to present a masterclass on metafiction.  Oh  boy, that was a doosey! As I have nothing of interest or sense … Continue reading Normal Service Will Return Soon

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The Criminal Mind

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I attended the ESRC Genomics Policy & Research Forum event last week, pictures and information of which can be found here. It was very interesting and although the session did not dwell on it, there was reference to the Victorian idea of a criminal mind, that criminals are a distinctive subset of society; that somewhere they carry the mark of Cain. I discovered tonight that I definitely do not have a criminal mind. I received a call from a PC Reid asking me to come along to a police station to discuss a complaint made against me. Talk about surreal … Continue reading The Criminal Mind

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Dialogic and the King

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Ergh…but in a good way. I have a 3,000 word life writing assignment to finish by Friday 04 December, and a further 3,000 words in which I cleverly illustrate my learning of theory to a short story also due to be submitted by Friday 04 December. Through my mentoring with Sam Kelly I have finally chosen the writing project I am going to focus on and I should have something on paper by my next mentoring session this Thursday. In closing, the course coupled with all I have to do to earn the barest living has resulted in a review … Continue reading Dialogic and the King