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2015 Bookish Resolutions
Read more: 2015 Bookish ResolutionsWell 2014 has come and gone – where the hell has it gone? seriously, I want a do-over – and though now might be the time for reflection, it is also the time to look onwards and maybe upwards. The cynic in me cannot allow me to be as optimistic and peppy about the dawn…
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It’s beginning to look a lot like… the end of term?
Read more: It’s beginning to look a lot like… the end of term?In response to the question quite crudely created by the addition of a question mark at the end of some seasonally appropriate butchered song lyrics: well, no, not really. Let me explain. I have had one deadline this term. One. Let that just sink in for a moment. Not only that, I have taken modules…
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A Retrospective: Shakespeare and Les Misérables
Read more: A Retrospective: Shakespeare and Les MisérablesOh, why hello there 2012! Wow, you really were a lifetime ago. And guess who forgot about this blog entirely in that intervening passage of time? Yes, me! It’s particularly wonderful to take a look back at 19 year-old me from the position of 21 year-old me, a person who has finished university and is…
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Resolutions
Read more: ResolutionsAaaah 2012, the year I have looked forward to for 2 very particular reasons- Sherlock series 2 and The Hobbit Part 1. Yes, that really is it. Not the Olympics. Sorry, I’m not a fan, regardless of whether the best athletes in the world will happen to be walking around London this year. Yes I…
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On feeling dislocated
Read more: On feeling dislocatedRight now, I’m confused. For the last seven years I was merrily attending Macmillan Monday-Friday, waking up at 7, bus at 20 to 8, lessons until 2:45 then bus home. Even when I moved into sixth form I stayed on at Macmillan, meaning 2 more years on the 5-year standard in a place that I…