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bookgazing) wrote2010-05-06 01:06 am
bookgazing) wrote2010-05-06 01:06 am
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Hello.
I have been gone a while. Mostly I have been thinking about where my life is going – conclusion not earning enough money to really change it. So it’s on with a serious spending freeze and a big job applications push.
I have been thinking about Open University MAs. While I still can’t afford to take one right now, they are about a third of the cost of an MA at a university and maybe I will be able to afford it by the time this year’s enrolment opens. Saying that, I’m not sure of their worth (looking at the English MA the content looks quite similar to some of the English courses I took in my first year of uni – same books and everything). Does anyone, preferably someone who works in academia, know how they compare to a university based MA?
I was also out eating at the Tewkesbury food festival. Then I planned a holiday to Croatia. And I got reprimanded for go-karting irresponsibly. See it is not all serious times when I disappear.
Soon I should have a few updates on my ‘Anna Karenina’ reading which is going oh so well. No, really that wasn’t sarcasm it is going unexpectedly well. Also I’d mostly finished a review of ‘Black Water Rising’ before I disappeared. I’m, oh about half way through ‘Bleeding Violet’ right now and my feelings are mixed, but heavily weighted towards the positive. Did you know it is Persephone week right now? I meant to join in, but I think I might be too book busy – two review copies, two readalongs and a YA contest + Carl’s challenge makes a big reading schedule.
I have been gone a while. Mostly I have been thinking about where my life is going – conclusion not earning enough money to really change it. So it’s on with a serious spending freeze and a big job applications push.
I have been thinking about Open University MAs. While I still can’t afford to take one right now, they are about a third of the cost of an MA at a university and maybe I will be able to afford it by the time this year’s enrolment opens. Saying that, I’m not sure of their worth (looking at the English MA the content looks quite similar to some of the English courses I took in my first year of uni – same books and everything). Does anyone, preferably someone who works in academia, know how they compare to a university based MA?
I was also out eating at the Tewkesbury food festival. Then I planned a holiday to Croatia. And I got reprimanded for go-karting irresponsibly. See it is not all serious times when I disappear.
Soon I should have a few updates on my ‘Anna Karenina’ reading which is going oh so well. No, really that wasn’t sarcasm it is going unexpectedly well. Also I’d mostly finished a review of ‘Black Water Rising’ before I disappeared. I’m, oh about half way through ‘Bleeding Violet’ right now and my feelings are mixed, but heavily weighted towards the positive. Did you know it is Persephone week right now? I meant to join in, but I think I might be too book busy – two review copies, two readalongs and a YA contest + Carl’s challenge makes a big reading schedule.