To Be Irritated, Or Not To Be Irritated… That Is The Question
I like Hamlet. In fact, I’d almost go as far as to say I’m a Hamlet fangirl, though a few years ago I was claiming not to like Shakespeare. When one of my English Literature teachers informed us we...
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All The World’s A Stage
Believe it or not, I didn’t always like Shakespeare. You’ll notice if you’ve read St Mallory’s Forever that Helen, who is otherwise like me in many respects, isn’t greatly enthusiastic about the works...
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Being Broken Doesn’t Always Suck
It can be difficult to see the bright side of all the health problems I’ve had in the past year. Hard to see what’s so great at trekking up to London to talk to specialists who can only tell me that I...
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A Day In The Life (Of An Unproductive Cambridge Student)
Engie @ Musings From Neville’s Navel recently wrote a post detailing how she spends her days: A Day in the Life of a Homeschooled Senior. She’s done this a few times over the past few years, and I...
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Death, Fairies, And Degrees
One of the reasons I chose to study Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at university is because many of my ongoing novels and other writing projects have their basis in Celtic mythology and history,...
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Nobody Knows: My Degree Is Unteaching Me
All pictures in this post are illustrations from the 1912 edition of T.W. Rolleston’s “Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race”. Hi. Not dead yet. First exam is Monday, it’s the only one I feel even...
View ArticleOn “Literature” (And Also Sex)
In today’s Review section of The Guardian (what a middle class way to start a blog post, I’m ashamed of myself) there was an article by Scarlett Thomas with which I absolutely could not identify. The...
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Missing The Bubble
This summer is a long one. As a Brit going through the state education system, I went through my school years with summer holidays of only six weeks. Okay, so that’s amazing to working adults, but to...
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You Win Some, You Lose Some
This year, I told myself, I’m going to be productive. I can’t control my health, but I can get ahead with my work, and then when I inevitably have a health crisis in the middle of the term, it isn’t so...
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Afternoon Naps And Essay Crises
Sometimes it occurs to me how much more I’d be able to get done if I didn’t spend quite so much of my time asleep. Take yesterday, for example — despite having set an alarm, I found myself waking up at...
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NaNo Cold Feet
It’s funny — university is hitting me much harder this year in terms of time to blog, even though I don’t feel quite as overwhelmed and panicked by the amount of things I’m doing. That said, there are...
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Another Term Done (Sort Of)
Cambridge terms are intense, overwhelming, and exhausting… but at least they’re short. Lectures finished for the term on Wednesday, and I’m heading home in a week’s time. Okay, so I have three...
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Fumes and Floor (The Dry Rot Saga Continues)
The Dry Rot Saga I promised you an update on the dry rot, so here it is: I currently have a floor, which is actually fixed down, and the carpet tiles are back over it. RESULT. I also have a skirting...
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Butterflies And Planning
It seems like covering one of my walls with plot notes paid off: I finally finished the third draft of Butterfly of Night on Friday night. Well, Saturday morning, really, since it was about 2am by the...
View ArticleThoughts On Returning To Cambridge
I’m now sort of back in Cambridge. I say sort of, because while I’m here, the vast majority of my stuff is not. And I bring an embarrassingly huge amount of stuff to uni, much of it food-related; I...
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Pokemon, Flatmates, And Jaffa Cake Deficits
I’m now properly moved in, even if there’s still a miscellaneous box of things to be unpacked which I’ve covered with a towel in the hope that it’ll magically sort itself out. I’ve stuck posters on the...
View ArticleStomach Bugs And Unpredictability
Sometimes I struggle to find the motivation to do anything, so that when it comes, I have to chase it down no matter how unwise it might seem at the time. Like on Monday. I hadn’t managed to get...
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A Queer Reading Of My Life
One of the things I learned during A-Level English Literature that I hadn’t come across before was the idea of different readings of a text. I mean, I think I’d been doing it unconsciously already, but...
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Lent Term Updates & Positivity
I came back to Cambridge on Saturday and promptly realised I’d forgotten several things I’d definitely meant to bring, including my current knitting project. I mean, I can’t really afford to take the...
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Peak Lancelot
Good news! I just submitted the online copy of my coursework for my French paper, so now all I need to do is drop off the printed copies, which I’m going to do on my way to lectures this afternoon....
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