Wow! I’ve just applied to a PhD programme. That’s just crazy! I mean, I’m the girl who suffered years of speech therapy – and the mocking that…
I’ve just completed another one of the Brooklyn Art Library‘s collaborative art projects, Letters From Your Childhood, so here I am sharing it with you. Yay! It’s difficult…
Today I stumbled upon a new blog by the Stirling Library Archives. The blog will post highlights from the 1813 entries in Dr Thomas Lucas’ diaries, a Stirling-based surgeon.…
Welcome back to Just Frances! I’m really excited to be back up and running and hope you’re excited, too. I must start this post by…
Regular Just Frances readers might know that the “real” site has been down since mid-October, with my last post happening on October 5. When the decision…
Today is Day 3 of Social Media Week, so I thought I’d talk about correspondence. You see, for all of the wonderfulness of social media,…
To celebrate Social Media Week, I have decided to share a paper I wrote a few months ago about digital diaries and online identities. It…
Today is National Punctuation Day in America, a day to celebrate the amazingness of punctuation. Today also marks the start of Social Media Week, a worldwide…
There is a fabulous literary festival in Stirling this weekend, and I’ve managed to catch a bit of it today. Bloody Scotland celebrates the amazing…
First, an apology for my absence the last week. I’ve had some website glitches and had to enlist the help of some amazing friends who…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
I wrote this poem a few weeks ago when life was going great and my future was filled with hope: job prospects; PhD funding opportunities;…
Today was my last day of classes. And that means no more teachers. No more admissions-determined schedules. No more sitting through lectures and seminars. No…
I have loads of things I want to write about. But I can’t. Some of them need to wait until “the right moment” and others…