May has been a month. I’m due to submit my PhD thesis at some point today – which is terrifying – and I submitted another project yesterday so I have been doing a lot of academic work over the last month. Since I was working so much, blogging and reading took a back seat.… Continue reading #MonthlyWrapUp: May 2021
April was hectic for me! I almost started a new job but that didn’t work out in the way that I wanted it to and then I did start a new job but that job is technically a month-long project rather than an actual job. I finished all of the training for the second job… Continue reading #MonthlyWrapUp: April 2021
March was Women’s History Month and I enjoyed writing all of the posts that I’ve published this month. I always enjoy blogging in March but this year the experience was even better. Life was strange because I had both a relaxed and hectic month. Academic life was relaxed because I sent another draft off to… Continue reading #MonthlyWrapUp: March 2021
February was slightly surreal! It was a very, very long month despite being the shortest month of the year. It snowed fairly often – which is unusual for the UK – and it was rather cold too. Winters have been mild for the last couple of years but we got down to -10C a few… Continue reading #MonthlyWrapUp: February 2021
The first month of 2021 is over and it was a tough one! The UK went back into ‘full’ lockdown – it’s a lockdown but I still think we need stricter measures – and I’ve spent the entire month fixing broken links in my PhD thesis footnotes. I did manage to read more books than… Continue reading #MonthlyWrapUp: January 2021
A yearly round-up of my favourite things that aren’t book-related! I’ll post a list of my favourite books of 2020 at some point. I listened to a lot of music this year. Not as much as I usually would – probably because I wasn’t commuting every day – but I have a lot of favourite… Continue reading 2020 Favourites
December was a decent month for me! I submitted a new draft of my second thesis chapter – because I decided to rewrite the entire thing on a whim – and I managed to finish both books I started in November and read a few more books. Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and Boxing Day were… Continue reading #MonthlyWrapUp: December 2020
I finished the second full draft of my PhD thesis in November and it needs some tweaks but I’m almost done. I have run into some complications with submitting it before the end of the year (like I originally intended to do) but I guess that’s what happens when the world is going through a… Continue reading #MonthlyWrapUp: November 2020
October has been very slow and very long. I wanted it to end but I also didn’t. I didn’t read much – which won’t be a surprise at this point because I haven’t read much in months – and I also haven’t done much in general. Just editing my thesis and pretending that everything is… Continue reading #MonthlyWrapUp: October 2020
September was a bit of a disaster for me. I’m not going to get into it but I’m so glad it’s over. I didn’t read much either! I started two books but I only finished The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa. It was an absolutely fantastic book and I’ll hopefully have a review up next… Continue reading #MonthlyWrapUp: September 2020
