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on edges
it’s sunday morning. there are no cars rushing down my street. the dogs are outside doing whatever it is dogs do. birds are making those little chirping noises they make. there are no people talking....
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betterer
time is doing its thing and i am feeling a bit better. i say that with caveats, because i still feel like something very profound and deep has shifted and i am not quite the same person as i was 6...
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winding down
in less than two weeks i will be officially on leave, and at the end of my academic year. this is the end of my first full year as a permanent academic, and my third time running my subject (it runs...
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out of hibernation
so i have conducted a participant observation study and i can report, scientifically, why bears hibernate. because it’s freaking cold. and cold is tiring. and i dont mean just cold, i mean all the...
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back in the red
so life has returned to its usual mid semester chaos, but still everything has changed. i have stuff happening that has me in a very weird state of limbo, waiting but not standing still, because there...
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limbo
once upon a time, i thought i wanted nothing more than to be settled. i worked hard and i took my opportunities when they came, and i thought settled happened about 2 and a half years ago when i...
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pacing
i am spending a lot of my time at the moment literally pacing. i find myself walking aimlessly around the house, running my fingers over the spines of books, picking up things, putting them back down....
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l’anniversaire
for a historian i am pretty bad with dates. i never can remember if it was the french or the american revolution that happened in 1778 for example, and i could have sworn the magna carta was 600...
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the rest of my life
for those of you who follow me on social media, you will already know what’s happened, and seen the pictures to go with it! i do love that about travelling in america, there is free wifi in most public...
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vertigo
i am quite literally, dizzy. light headed, even a little bit breathless. my life has a mind of its own at the moment and i feel like i am just the passenger, watching it swerve around the bends like an...
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