Posted in phd on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Be free in March!
Get on with your life!
IT’S GOOD ENOUGH!
Be closer to earning money
Feel that glow of satisfaction
Hold it in your hands
Wear a funny green hat
Make the supervisors happy
Make M happy
Do something new and better
(Written in big letters on my whiteboard.)
Reasons not to finish
It will never be perfect
I feel an overwhelming desire to rewrite whole [...]
Posted in creatures, halden, ice, image-poem, light, seasons on Sunday, January 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »
We haven’t seen the sun in days. But when it comes back it will be too bright to face.
Fierce and low and white. And the whole of this tilting world
this flat, glinting, patterned world
will tip into its arms.
Posted in creatures, ice on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Pretty much sums it up right now.
Posted in phd on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I forgot to say in my last post, there’s a great new website, Beyond the PhD, with interviews of people who’ve done PhDs, information about what they’ve done next, and how they feel about the PhD experience. I think it’s aimed at people like myself who have nearly finished and are wondering what the future [...]
Posted in medieval, phd on Tuesday, January 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In response to some questions from Penni, this is the first in a series of posts – or second actually, if you count this one on why Australian poetry – on how I ended up doing the phd I did ( – er – am doing. Can’t wait till I can use past tense here!).
When [...]
Posted in halden, norway, seasons, snow on Tuesday, January 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
It’s snowing, quite a lot, but it’s one degree. Which means the whole world is covered in white mush. Mush, I tell you.
Update: I went outside and it’s worse than anticipated. The footpaths are giant slush-puddles.
Posted in gym, iphone, obsessions, yum on Saturday, January 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A week or so ago Michael loaded some games onto his iphone. This is the best one. Last weekend I got seriously addicted. The little people come in and order their chocolate, and you have to run around making square or round or triangle boxes, wrapping them in blue or red or green as appropriate. [...]
Posted in medieval, poetry, seasons on Wednesday, January 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The things you find on Wikipedia. I must confess, I’ve never been able to get into Ezra Pound. I never had the chance to study his work formally, and the few times I opened his collected poems as a conscientious undergraduate in the library on rainy afternooons, I found them impenetrable. But I was looking [...]
Posted in phd, writing on Wednesday, January 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve started tackling the sinking ships. One at a time.
Posted in clouds, halden, light, snow on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Came back! At half past nine, as the light crept down the hillside, it appeared again. After my rash but poetic promise, what could I do but wrap up in scarf and coat and rush outside. Running proved not to be practical on the icy footpath, but I did what I could.
The mist was elusive. [...]
