Work coming out of my ears

Today is the first day of my new two-day-a-week research assist­ant job (short term con­tract for three months or so). That means I’m now teach­ing at Mel­bourne Uni on Mondays, spend­ing Tues­day and Wed­nes­day on my thesis, Thursday and Friday as an RA at RMIT and...

Word count: 14,950 (includes margin text)

Have cut up the thesis, pasted it back together, pasted in bits and quotes from all over the place, it’s all a bit crazy… But the word count is encour­aging, even if it does include stuff I can’t really count, like notes to myself to rewrite sections… At...

Sock it to me, baby

While I was away, the delight­ful Jezebel got her­self a skin infec­tion of some kind. The vet says she’s never seen any­thing quite like it and noth­ing’s show­ing up under the micro­scope. I’ve got two weeks’ worth of anti­bi­ot­ics to give her and...