Very excited to feature in this, looking forward to reading everyone else’s contributions!

If you are a lawyer, you advocate to save democracy. If you are an elected rep you use legislative power to protect your country. If you are a journalist you write truth in the face of threats to democracy.

If you are a faith leader, you do this. Everyone has a role. Stand upright in yours.

Early modern spelling is never not fun.

I knew that starting a new paper for the first time since October would be hard going, but I didn’t think it would be *this* hard going.

I am working on it though. Just very slowly

At the end of the day, it’s just me and the article about Hamlet I’ve been saying I’m working on for 14 months now.

If anyone has any tips for dealing with this, I will compile a lovely commonplace book

I know rejection is a part of my chosen field & I’ll develop a tougher skin. But I must say I’m not feeling particularly tough right now…

we might struggle for funding 😂

Would that make early modern plays make more or less sense though….

Look, the other PGRs might be judging me for bringing an electric heating pad into the office. But I am happy.

One thing they don’t tell you about university lecturing is just how awkward you’ll feel standing in the hallway waiting for a room to be free while all of the students gossip about their week.

I was speaking to a non-academic friend about the projects I’m working on at the moment. Halfway through my rant, she smiled & said ‘I thought you said you’d never write about sword scenes again after the thesis’.

Should’ve known that was a lie.

Anyway. Back on the sword train.

I think this is just how my brain works to be honest

Dreamt I was giving a lecture last night & all the slides kept changing to other lectures/presentations while I scrambled around to make sense of the through line.

Yeah, I don’t envy you! Honestly, it’s all just weird!

I present a cat

It’s approaching the 1 year anniversary of my thesis submission and I feel such a strange mix of emotions. I think the submission acceptance email should come with a disclaimer - “you will feel weird about this soon.”

Yes, I am sharing this to remind myself