Every Great Plodder

Reverse the roles, lose the tabs and swap the dog for an ever-attendant cat and you have my set up right now.  Not that I am a great novelist (yet) - just plodding with the degree, with the full hope that it will hone my skills by the time I am finished.  A third year student has posted the date of their graduation ceremony, so I will be hopefully wearing my gown and board, holding my scroll aloft in September 2016. So, 7 months down, 29 to go :-)

Book Note

NTS - get The Handmaids Tale (Margaret Artwork); Spellbound (Bronte) and Caucasian Chalk Circle (Bergholt Brecht)

EDIT:::: Seems I am victim of my smartphones autocorrect LOL :-D

On the Up

Back at college and today has been a good day - peppered with coughs and sniffs, but infinitely better. Bit thin on the ground with students (including self - four narrowed down to three), but we managed. I have three assignments to think of - think I might go with a poem for TH3 (Grace Nichols - The Fat, Black Woman goes Shopping). I was going to read Monica Ali's Brick Lane, but fear I will run out of time and I need to use two new theories.  Whereas, I can use Post Colonial and Marxism for this.

( Grace Nichols - The Fat, Black Woman Goes Shopping )

Anyway, reasons for my happy day:

1) Poet specialist likes my stuff and says a) I shouldn't ever give up, as this is my thing b) Is surprised that I haven't really done it before (I did some about 12 years ago, but it was therapy rather than poetry).

2) My photo of of Claire has made The H.E. Bulletin.

3) More of our class stuff will be taken on board by the archaeology bigwig from the BSc course for their bicentennial project.

4) Lecturer is thinking of using my Fal Building poetry as part of their further education blurb.


Get me!!! :-DDD