Micro Update

I'm still here.  Since last blogging, my first three terms at Oxford have come to an end, I've been home and come back again, and the weather has remained painfully unsummery.

Currently, I'm fighting off jet lag and a cold and working on finishing off Chapter Two.  More to come!

Still Alive!

Hello, I'm still here.

The last couple weeks have been rather busy, as my parents have been visiting from Canada (which involved much visiting and touring about - including an afternoon at Blenheim Palace and a run up to London!).  I've also been working on revisions for my first chapter, which I need to submit at the end of next week for my transfer of status to the DPhil...

So...  More blogging to come in the near future, once I come out the other end of my transfer of status submission.

Still Alive

I'm still here but I've got my nose to the grindstone, as I research and start writing (soon) an essay for my supervisor for Friday (!).  I'm currently reading an article in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine from 1819 on a British mission to the Ashantee; I've been reading lots of Charlotte and Branwell Bronte's early writings; and I'm about to start such interesting books as Slavery and the Romantic Imagination and The Rise of the Colonial Novel.  Also, I am slightly saddned to report that having finished Charlotte Bronte's The Professor and Anne's Agnes Grey (which I actually really enjoyed - this novel doesn't always get great reports), I now have no Bronte novels left to be read.  Alas.

However, I still have 4+ volumes of early writings to get through, plus letters, plus poems.  That's something, isn't it?

Once this essay is done, I promise reports on my recent travel and one (possibly two) book review(s).  Also, commentary on British grocery stores, transportation, and weather.