busy times, friends! i moved to chicago & forgot about the internet. well, not really, i am on twitter, but you all knew that already.
in academic news, i passed my field exam in december! now all i have to do is write a dissertation. the university has worked me to death since i started in 2008, so maybe now i will have some spare time to write more bizarre, off-topic, & self-aggrandizing things. just what we all wanted!
to celebrate passing my exam, i went to england & gave a paper on a late-eighteenth-century comedy. also, i took some photographs of things, & this is really just a note to say that my flickr account is back in business after a long & dreadful hiatus. huzzah?
in science fiction news, look what i got in england:
probably you can’t tell, but that is a copy of iain m banks’s inversions, which is not yet available in orbit’s fine QP here in the states, so i did my bit for the british economy & picked up a copy of that & also of look to windward, & i can assure you that they are both very good. i mean, they are no algebraist, but then again, my friends, what is. i mean, really.
i will try to come back more frequently to talk about things that i like, & that you, if you are reading this, probably like, like science fiction & music.
in the meantime, you might want to look at some pictures of england that i took earlier this month. before that i was in DC for a few days. last night i took my boyfriend to the go-kart track.
tomorrow we are going into hibernation, because the word on the street is that we are supposed to have wind-chill temperatures into the negative twenties, yes, that’s -20°F, or even lower, & we have been told not to go outside if we can avoid it, which we are happy to do.
maybe tomorrow i will write some words on the internet, though probably i should also start thinking about going back to work sometime.
