And now a new journey starts

Printed and Bound!

Behold! The Eternal Dissertation has been bound. It is done!

Fiction Update – Murder! Mayhem! Strange Browser Histories!

I’ve updated A Slip of My Pen with all the Flash! Friday pieces I’ve written thus far. Some of the research for these definitely made my browser history look really… odd. Especially the research for “To Kill a Fly”.

TheFlash Pieces Include:

The Worth of Death

Old World, new World

Shells

To Kill a Fly

Rose and the Wind

White Flag

A Cup of Tears

Graffiti

In other, mostly unrelated news

I’m very close to actually handing in the final version of the eternal dissertation all bound in mock leather and hopefully looking very interesting and important. I think once I actually hand over the pile of copies (getting my daily exercise while doing so – it’s going to be very heavy) I may need to sit down with a cup of tea and a biscuit and just let it all sink in. Or with red velvet cake. Red velvet cake sounds good.

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Wonderful News!

After disappearing off the face of the Earth for a few weeks,* I return in triumph with some absolutely wonderful news:

I passed my master's degree.**

Yes, the end of the Eternal Dissertation is in sight. With only a couple of minor changes to go, it may sink in somewhere in the next few weeks that I passed. My articles in Speculative Grammarian, though, can’t count as my academic paper for the degree.

In other writing news

I discovered Flash Friday last week and I’m going to try and write a piece every Friday during lunchtime. I’ll post whatever leaks out of my pen here the following week.

*Holiday packages outside the solar system is expensive, but well worth it.

** It’s a MA in Afrikaans, about the use of Norse mythology in Afrikaans and Dutch literature. *tries to look intelligent.*

One Week to Go

The Eternal Dissertation

Today it is exactly one week before I hand in The Eternal Dissertation. The problem is that, now that I’m basically putting the finishing touches on the document, the perfectionist in me starts to haggle and tell me that I should rather rewrite a specific piece or that I should read through the whole thing just one more time. I’m trying my best not to listen, though.

In other, but related, news

I am also busy with a proposal for this year’s SASMARS. (Insomnia is wonderful when you have a lot to get done.) So, slowly but surely, I am getting there one step at a time and with lots of music. 

Some background music

If you read the blog often, you’ll know by now that I like background music. At the moment it’s leaning towards classical and early music. This piece from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake (Op. 20, Scène) remains one of my favourites.

And now I’ll get back to work.