Asides

Some more spam

Apparently my post on the broken spambot has been taken as a challenge by the other spambots out there – that post has now already received seven additional spam comments (with none on my other posts). And some of them are pretty good, even referencing the post itself. A sign of intelligence?

Here’s the poll.

A day off

I’ve been blogging consistently every day now for an entire week. I think I’ll take today off as a reward.

(And yes, the several levels of irony have not been lost on me: writing a blog post to say I’m not writing one today; rewarding myself for consistent posting by skipping a day…what can I say? I do stuff like that.)

I wonder what happens if I post it as an aside…

On biting off more than you can chew

I think I’ve mentioned before that I’ve started with my Master’s Degree this year. Yesterday I finally received the last of my prescribed books. Here’s how they all look together.

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Seeing them all stand neatly in a row like this, I’m starting to wonder what on Earth I’ve let myself in for. I have to pass oral exams on all of these before I can submit my research proposal for my thesis, which I want to do by October. Guess book four of A Song of Ice and Fire will have to wait. It’s all non-fiction from here.

Wish me luck.