Quick Catch-up

[steepholm]

I've not posted recently, so here (as much for my own future benefit as anything) is a quick run-down of what's been happening in the last couple of weeks. Imagine that I've written entertainingly and at length about each of these, as they fully deserve. I shall try to do better.

a) I put my house on the market. I want a place with a spare room and a kitchen larger than a malfunctioning TARDIS - but hopefully pretty close to where I am at the moment.

b) I failed to win the BA Small Research Grant I'd applied for, to go to Japan next year and research the image of the UK in Japan. All alternative funding ideas welcome, no matter how outlandish! (I'll go anyway, mind.)

c) I finished the critical book I've been pottering around with for years. It's now being read by a colleague, who's making positive noises so far. I'd wanted to call it The LITMUS Papers (standing for "Lies I Tell My Undergraduate Students") but my publisher insists on something much duller.

d) I should be preparing for the new term - but how much more pleasant to go back and tinker with the book (see c)!

Comments

[shewhomust]

Good luck with the house! Is the plan to sell first, house hunt afterwards?

[steepholm]

I'm trying to do both simultaneously, but it's early days yet.

[thistleingrey]

Best wishes for an easy path!

[steepholm]

Thank you! I shall try to update here, hopefully without becoming a bore about it.

[thistleingrey]

No, not at all--househunting and -selling tales are always good, especially without having to suffer through the paperwork oneself. :/ I remember realizing in grad school (long before owning anything) that property has always been hard, else there wouldn't be these auld treatises about how to manage property....