Because being socially awkward has its benefits
… and shit hits the fan – in quite opposite directions. Die-hard fans and design aficionados appreciate the forthcoming sparks of joy they expect from ordering a $200 tea container or a $75 tuning fork with rose quartz – things every home obviously needs to have. Haters meanwhile have a field day; Twitter and Instagram [...]
Being all over the place is nothing new for me, as most of you will know by now. Apart from some serious ADHD doing a lot of freelance work (mainly writing and editing) as well as (still) organizing a dissertation may add even more pressure to my already overwhelmed mind. Furthermore, I have so many ideas [...]
It's a new year and we are encouraged to make a new start. Magazines, newspapers, friends, family, and pretty much the whole internet demonstrates some serious motivation regarding new year's resolutions. That's nice, and inspiring. But I know myself better than that -- a lot of us do. I hate Christmas, but I love the [...]
A few days ago I received an invitation to a conference in December. I never in a million years expected anyone to accept my paper because a) it's not even a conference with a focus on literary studies and b) I'm no fancy academic pursuing her studies not looking left or right, but rather [...]
So the new laptop finally arrived!! UPS and I had some initial problems of finding some time for each other since our doorbell wasn't working as it should (probably for the last months - which explains why we never get any parcels, but always have to fetch them at the post office), but in the [...]
Now this entry sounds way more dramatic than it actually is. Fact is, I didn’t work ‘that much’ on my thesis or academic ventures since returning from London last May. For one thing, wonderguy and I moved in together shortly afterwards and there was a lot to organize and do for weeks afterwards; secondly, I [...]
Long time no see, again - an update on how I blame everything on my bullet journal... So for months now I regularly thought about what I could probably blog about. I even had a few ideas – quite a few at times – usually when I had nothing with me to take some notes [...]
I've been working as a freelancer for years now. I started the first draft of my thesis roughly 2 years ago and there’s still much to do, as pretty much the complete theoretical framework is still missing (it's there in my mind, at least some parts of it, but not where it should be, written [...]
I have not been around for quite some time and this does nothing for my “go on and write regularly for someone else than yourself and your journal/diary/notebook/mazy mind"–plan. Of course there are reasons for this, though none of those reasons are good enough to explain my being MIA for such a long time. [...]
I have finished my talk some weeks ago, ready to edit it a bit here and there and in the end having weeks to rehearse it (...something that is reallyreallyreally important for non-native-speakers!!!) – at least that was my plan. Of course, quite the opposite happened. After finishing my first ‘draft,’ my supervisor and wonderguy [...]
