Nearly four weeks after the last update I suppose it is time to write something! Writing on the thesis is progressing well. Decameron chapter is nearly done, and the Seven Sages work is coming along well. For the first time in quite a while, I can actually see me finishing this on time. Which is nice.
In other news…I spent a very quiet New Year at home in Cambridge with the cat. Sad, perhaps. But lovely. Indulged in a lovely bottle of rather expensive wine, and watched the crap-but-nonetheless-entertaining film Bewitched. In actual fact, the anticipated New Year isolationism was briefly broken when a friend dropped round, which was great.
It’s intriguing – I feel I’ve secretly done what everyone would like to do. If one more person tells me what a rubbish New Year they had, I may have to laugh out loud. And this is only Jan 1st ;o)
The great move begins today: bed and desk are already installed in my new room. About to get on with some shelves and the bookcase. Gulp. You probably don’t realise how many books that is.
Still, new storage solutions are trundling to me as we speak, so it WILL ALL BE OK. Really. Honest. No more piles of books.
Although I do accept the irony of death-by-collapsing-books for a PhD student.
The question is this though: alphabetized? chronological? colour? (personal favourite!) topic? degree of interest? number of times referenced somewhere? cost?
I’m quite tempted by a combinatory organization of the books, in accordance with the principles of my thesis. But that would be too ridiculous. Wouldn’t it?
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