O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
The examiners’ reports on my thesis are in! I got two As! No changes required! It’s done! It’s done! It’s done! The PhD of Doom is DEAD DEAD DEAD! I’m now Dr Lisa!! (Wow, what a week it’s been! From...
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Had the PhD of Doom bound in leather, so it’s all said and done. The Library wants two copies and they want the font in gold — but since I think the gold is ugly, I got one specially made with silver...
View ArticleHere’s looking at you, 2011
Last day of the year… so like many of you I’m feeling the urge to commit a bit of retrospective bloggery. 2011 sucked. Then it was awesome. Then it sucked again. Then it got better than ever… And so...
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For a couple of weeks, I’ve had this article open in a tab on my desktop, about a 1,600 year-old bathhouse recently discovered in Israel. It’s just a feature piece, but the photo is captivating, as is...
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