Author: lisahannett

This is how I feel this afternoon:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPgqfHYeI0QShiny happy Lisa 🙂

It’s boring passages like this one that have forced me to surf the internet far too much today:“In AM 415 4to there is a collection of genealogies which as a whole is similar to that in AM 1 e ß II fol., though the order is different: here there is a langfeðgatal tracing the Yngling line through Óðinn back to…… Continue reading Why the internet is so tempting…

Because I can’t help but read articles that have got something to do with vampires. And this one’s almost scholarly, so it’s almost like I’m working on my thesis… I’m sure my supervisor would see the relevance, somehow:www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126985.200-vampire-discovered-in-mass-grave.htmlSurvived the move (which took 9 hours, thanks to the 100 boxes of books). Many boxes still left to…… Continue reading I can haz Vampyrz

Having no internet connection at home SUCKS.Moving house at VERY short notice also SUCKS.Moving away from bogan landlord and his bogan family ROCKS.Packing up 100 boxes of books (this is, (un)fortunately, not an exaggerated number. I counted.) is not the most thrilling way to spend a few days. Packing SUCKS.Being a packrat ROCKS — until…… Continue reading ROCKS vs SUCKS

Finished reading two of THE DRIEST academic books EVER yesterday (part of my ‘no computer plan’ which completely worked!) and today I finished writing reviews of said books. Thank F$@*K.I had hoped to get the third review written today (of a book that is BRILLIANT, namely, David Malouf’s Complete Stories) but alas. It is 5:35 and…… Continue reading Flerrrrgh

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The Adelaide Fringe is tearing up the city as we speak — it opened Friday night with an insane parade, and the fun won’t stop until 22 March. Those of you in Adelaide, or heading to Adelaide in the next few weeks, there’s no excuse to miss this show:Sound & Fury’s ‘Sherlock Holmes & the…… Continue reading When in Adelaide, Thou Shalt Fringe

From today’s thesis readings… It all comes back to writing stories."’Relations [meaning the interconnectedness of events and people] stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally to draw, by a geometry of his own, the circle in which they all shall happily appear to do so.’ Human experience is a continuum, but the…… Continue reading The artificiality of endings…

You know, when your head explodes it gives you a different perspective on things.The expert didn’t do exactly what I am doing.The expert did some of what I am doing, which means I don’t have to do it now.The expert’s views support my central argument, so now I can point at her work instead of…… Continue reading Post-head explosion

You know when you’ve been working on, say, a thesis chapter for so long it feels like you were still in diapers when you started and you’ll be back in diapers by the time you finish? And you know when you’re in the middle of this eternal torture, and you’re trying to find the right…… Continue reading The sound of my head exploding…