Today, I woke up at 6.30 and began getting ready for the day. I cleaned my teeth, took a shower, put on a dress, drank…
I don’t know if it’s fair to say that I’ve been on my summer holidays since I’ve been an unemployed student for the last year+,…
Sometimes I wonder if I could become a reluctant hermit, living in my own little hermitage, hiding away from society, and sulking away my life…
As you may know, I like to save all of my “spare” change so that I can cash it in for something fun and frivolous.…
Yep, that’s me: Gadget Girl. OK, I admit that I’m not the most gadgety of all gadget girls, but I’m certainly the first place contender…
Since I turned in my dissertation draft yesterday, I’ve decided that I am going to take a week’s holiday to rest and unwind before I…
Wow. I guess that’s Dissertation Month pretty much over. I mean, I know it’s not been a full calendar month, but the month’s main project – completing…
Today was race number seven in my 2012 Race a Month Challenge. And if you didn’t guess it from the title of this post, it…
Every once in a while, my mind wanders back to the first time a boy gave me flowers. Or, rather, the first time a boy…
Dissertation Month is nearly over! Can you believe it? I mean, it’s just been a mad blur of writing and writing and writing! As you…
Yikes! Were you on Just Frances yesterday? Well, if you were you may have noticed a 12+ hour period where the site was broken. The…
There is something ever-so-cruel about random memories. OK, not always. In fact, most of the time random memories are happy moments. But sometimes, like today,…
In less than two weeks, I have to have a full draft of my dissertation ready to send my supervisor for his review. (After which,…
Today I’m going to give a bit of a rave. It’s kind of about how awesome my hair looks, but really it’s more about how…
I almost wasn’t going to post anything today, but then I remembered my promise to post more often so I thought I’d best post something.…
Dissertation month continues! As does my progress. The biggest part of this week’s work has been transcribing and re-reading interview materials, but I’ve also managed to…
I am participating in an online thing where a few people are getting together to chat through a moderated forum run by a grief counsellor.…
Today is Independence Day in America. It is the day when the nation celebrates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. As a proud American,…
Just a quick dissertation update for you today, since I did promise that this would be Dissertation Month. First, a look at the tasks I…
OK folks, it’s time to get serious about this dissertation. Like really, really serious! (Actually, I should have been really, really serious about it for…