Author: lisahannett

Tasmania is BEAUTIFUL. I want to go back there again, preferably for longer than 5 hours.When the ATM tells you you’ve exceeded the number of times you can get your PIN wrong, it means it.Having two credit cards doesn’t mean you actually have any money.People can be incredibly kind to you when you are frantic…… Continue reading Things I learned yesterday

My article, ‘Conquering Viking Enemies in Icelandic Cultural Memory’ has been published! Hurrah! I wrote it last year for the ‘Vikings and Their Enemies’ conference at Melbourne Uni, and the volume of collected essays has finally come out. If you need some help sleeping, you can order a copy here.

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How did the weekend go so quickly?  Scratch that. I know how it went so quickly:Last minute quiz night preparations, and the event itself on Saturday. (Some people have said that it’s the best quiz night they’ve ever been to, so snaps for me & Chad. Still, I don’t know if I’ll ever organise another…… Continue reading Monday already

The ‘Movember’ quiz night was a huge success last night — about 125 people showed up for a night of festivities at Flinders, and all of our weeks of work raised $1483.00 for Prostate Cancer Research and beyondblue. Hooray! I was so wired after the event, I couldn’t sleep until nearly 4am, and now my…… Continue reading Done and dusted

In May I wrote a review of Kate Morton’s Forgotten Garden for the ABR — and I just saw the table of contents for their December/January issue, and–lo and behold–there’s my review! This book was a bit too Oprah-licious for my liking, so it is one of the harsher reviews I’ve written,* and I thought they…… Continue reading Forgotten Garden

I’ve finished the albatross of a review! The monkey is off my back! The other two reviews I’m doing for this journal are now conveniently not due until March — so I don’t have to think about them until post-Clarion! Yay yay yay yay and yay. I love the post-stress feeling (I’m repressing thoughts of…… Continue reading YAY YAY YAY

John of Saintsbury’s early modern motivation for writers:"…the loyalty, zeal, and diligence of writers triumphing over sloth transmuted them to posterity" (Policraticus).Yeah. It’s still relevant.(My review is at 815 words, and is in need of a conclusion.)

It’s so nice to finally finish one of the longest review books you’ve ever read, and then discover that the review only has to be a mere 500-800 words. Yay!

I’m up.Have had coffee.Have had fibre-filled brekkie.Checked emails; sent a few.Visited some of my favourite lj folk.Working on thesis.And it’s only 8:42 am.