May 2011
1 post
Fame at last! (Again) The Shef Uni PG Newsletter →
March 2011
4 posts
Help Adam raise more than £35! →
I’m running for Cancer Research UK. Cancer Research UK change lives everyday. If you’d like to change a life (or at the very least change mine by making me very happy), then visit my fundraiser page today.
The Going Gets Tough... →
It’s all happening over at my running blog for the time being… Visit now to see how the training is taking on existentially epic proportions (and all for a good cause)!
February 2011
1 post
Help me run 10K for Cancer Research! →
In May I’ll be running the Bupa Manchester 10K Run to raise money for Cancer Research- follow this link and follow my running blog!
June 2010
2 posts
Published again! →
A new version of my short story, Charlotte, recently published in Horror Bound Magazine made a second revamped appearance in Route 57 this month: The Unviersity of Sheffield’s well respected creative writing magazine.
I make Page 3 →
I recently discovered that this article, about me (!), was published in the University of Sheffield ‘Crucible’ magazine- a quarterly publication charting the University’s dedication to ‘nquiry Based Learning’
May 2010
11 posts
My First Published Short Story!! →
My first horror/slip-stream short story, ‘Charlotte’, has now been published in ‘Horror Bound Online’, an American horror writing webzine.
Any likeness to real people and places was fairly unintentional.
Hand In Day (and Beyond)
Yesterday was hand in day. I still had to print off the hard copies of my two essays (for context to this post flick back and browse the last few- I’d been racing to get these two essays done in time) so it was off early into uni (for a change. Not.)
I got them printed, sorted and handed in by half past 11. Wahoo! Then I met with Viki, Kenton and another girl from my film class called Grace...
Weekend from HELL
If you’ve read a few posts in a row you may remember back at ‘Shoulder to the Grindstone’ I was teasing you into wondering when exactly I wrote up that second essay, the cliff hanger being that although it was due in Wednesday 12th I still hadn’t written it up by the Thursday, and wouldn’t get to because of the ball.
So, Friday then. Well, I woke up a Viki’s...
The 2010 English Summer Ball
The venue was brilliant. The Millenium Galleries! Galleries which I walk through at least one everyday as I hike from the train station to campus. But never, NEVER, did I imagine that I would one day be laid prostrate on the floor with four super hot girls and one of my best buddies posing in front of an overly eager camera man (with a remarkable memory- he knew me from last year) on that very...
Shoulder to the Grindstone
I handed two essays in yesterday. A big deal. A massive deal. I should be filled with relief, flooded with elation etc etc. But to be honest, I just feel tired. They were a tiny part of a big old busy picture, and I’m glad to see the back of them, but the truth is, we still have a long way to go.
Where to start. Lets go back to the start of last week. Bank Holiday Monday. I think I was...
The (kind of) Renaissance Man
You’ve seen the movie with Danny DeVito where he has to teach those kids that don’t want to learn Shakespeare Shakespeare? Or the one with Michelle Phiffer essentially doing the same thing? Or more recently, Mariah Carey was doing it in the Bronx in that movie Precious… Well, I’ve kind of being doing something similar, but also different. The main difference being the kids...
Mega missing post lost forever
Guys, I just wrote a massive, very reflective and entertaining post, carefully constructed to incorporate recent events in a humorous angst free way… and then the site crashed and I couldn’t retrieve it!
I’m not writing it again, I could never to it just, so here’s the jist- I’ve been in the University Library alot writing papers, it reminds me of writing my...
April 2010
31 posts
48 Hours of Action- The 2nd Day
The morning after Jane’s birthday (this morning) Kenton and I went down to Uni to visit the library- and then something happened that I think can only really happen when you’re a student. The trip to the library quickly escalated…
Whilst there Kent got an email from Jane- apparently the internationally recognised comedian and new political figure Eddie Izzard was visiting out...
48 Hours of Action
The last couple of days have been crazy.
To begin with, one of my tutors announced ten minutes into a seminar that he wished we weren’t cooped up inside on such a nice day, before deciding to transport the seminar to the beer garden outside Fusionon Division Street (where he also bought us all a drink and we were served by my friend Nikki’s old housemate Yuriko). That in itself was...
Soon to be published slip-stream writer...
Good news!
A few weeks back I wrote a short story to submit to the annual University creative writing magazine, but after I’d finished writing it I liked it so much I decided to send it further afield. I submitted a version of it to an online horror writing magazine from the US, and I just heard back from them yesterday- they want to publish it in their May edition!
I’m very pleased,...
Train Horror
At the start of the week I always buy a 7 day ticket for the train, to get into Uni. I always have this fear, an nightmare if you will, of boarding a train only to later discover that my ticket has gone inexplicably missing. Well, this week, that nightmare became reality.
I was on the train and the inspector was on his way through the carriage checking all of the tickets. I confidently flip open...
Living for the weekend? ...Really?
Talk about getting thrown in the deep end. Or in this case back into the deep end. It’s the end of the second week since week got back from Easter break and I already feel like I’ve been beaten to a bloody pulp and left for dead beneath a pile of quite heavy books. Ok, well, maybe it’s not as bad as all that.
By the end of last week it was clear that I was going to have to start...
A funny old day really
One of my modules this semester is called ‘Representing the Eighteenth Century in Film’, and each week there are screenings of a different film which will then discuss in the following weeks seminar. We are encouraged to attend the screenings rather than just watch the films on our own, because we can share initial reactions and discuss the film as soon as we’ve seen it, leading...
MA - Back in Action
Gee… it didn’t take long all to fall back into the swing of things!
I managed to get into Uni early yesterday morning and get some work done. Just as I was starting to feel like a break from reading the extensive lamentations of Janet Little, the infamous C18th Milk Maid, I got a message from Charlotte. I properly met Charlotte at Fay’s before the weekend, although we sort of...
Flash Back- A final whisltle stop tour
In less than 12 hours a new term of uni will have begun. Which means lots more work, but more importantly, it means that I have failed in my perhaps over ambitious endeavour to fill you in on all of the events that got me from Christmas to Easter before the new term began. In fact, I barely got you out of January. So, it looks like I’m going to have to resort to the mega listing technique I...
Explodong Poetry
This is a review of a fairly unique poetry event that I attended at the of January. I was thinking of how to describing on this blog, and then I realised I could just post the review! It was written for the University of Sheffield’s student paper, the Forge Press.
So, here it is:
Who gives a poem meaning? Who owns poem? When is a poem not a poem, and who makes this decision? These are...
Final Days of Easter
A fairly low-key couple of weeks went nuclear as the week drew to a close, with amazing weather, a whole bunch of travelling and familiar faces turning up left right and centre.
After a failed attempt to meet Lucy back in the first week of the break we rearranged to meet up in Nottingham on the Saturday of the final week. We chose Nottingham because by train it’s about an hour for each of...
The final week of Easter
This week was the last week of the so-called Easter break, although to be honest I didn’t get much of a break. This week has been fairly emblematic of the past two, with me swapping between student ambassador work (tours, school visits, Q&A sessions etc) and actual work for uni (mostly reading, but also essay and presentation prep). But I managed to spice it all up a bit by meeting up...
Flash Back- The Final Count down
The essays were in. The interview was in the bag. And second semester didn’t start for another two weeks. Unusually, I had downtime on my hands! Admittedly, I had to research and prepare a dissertation proposal ready to be submitted as little as 9 days into these two weeks, and I had a number of student ambassador commitments, but I was also going to have some fun!
With the main stress of...
“There won’t be a revoloution in America,’ said Isadore. Nikitin...”
– Eric Linklater 1899-1974
Scottish Novelist
The man himself- Dudley Sutton →
This short youtube clip shows Dudley Sutton, the iconic British character actor that I interviewed back in January, doing what he does best. The poem he is reading is called ‘My Last Night Out’, and was written by Mr Sutton!
Flash back- Meeting Dudley Sutton
It’s 11am(ish) on Easter Monday and I’ve already spent a good hour reading about the American Revolution for one of my modules at uni, so I figured it was time for a short break, and what better way to procrastinate than continue telling the story of how I got from Christmas to here?
So, in my last post I told you about how I met Sally. After we parted the final days of the Christmas...
Flash back- Seeing Sally again
It’s Easter Sunday! The evening is drawing to a close. I spent all day at work and fell asleep pretty much as soon as I got home, but now I’m awake again and I’m feeling unusually productive. Its gone 10pm so too late to do any actual uni work, so I figured, why note do a bit more on the old blog?
If you recall I’ve been filling you in on the post Christmas events that I...
Flash back- Leikki's Leaving Party
In real time it’s Easter Saturday, I just got back for visiting Southwell Workhouse, and in less than an hour I’ll be watching a brand new episode of Doctor Who- the first full episode to feature Matt Smith as the Doctor. But that’s enough about the present, as I recall we’ve still got some catching up to do. Alot of catching up.
So, my last ‘Flash back’ ended...
