Good morning! Happy Tuesday! It's currently about 8:30, I got up a little bit earlier
this morning than sometimes I manage to which is quite nice and which means I
can get cracking with some of my work. I rounded off
yesterday doing a bit of video editing, managed to get a video up which was great, as
well as just finishing off a little bit of reading. So, this morning, what I'm
going to do is I've got to write up a supervision that I had the other day
and I've also got some emails to catch up on. So some admin-y
bits to start off the day.
So, I've written up my supervision which, I always forget how useful a process
it is. I view it as a hassle until I actually get to do it
but actually it's quite a useful way to think through exactly what I've said
to Cathy, my supervisor, that I'm going to do, because it's quite
easy to say you're gonna do something that completely forget it.
So it's always a really nice process to really think over what that conversation was about and
what her reflections on some of my writing what... I often find
she'll say things that will make me have realizations about what I've written.
I've just had some great news about the play I'm currently working on which I
potentially can't say anything about just yet but I've got to take a quick
break from PhD stuff just to update some thoughts on that and chat to some people about
that. But it's super exciting news So, I've managed to do the thing I do
quite often when I get up and start working really, really early which is that
it's now maybe half past ten, not even quite that yet, and I'm already
really, really tired. And so I'm gonna find some Coca-Cola just to
keep me going through the rest of the morning. I'm currently doing a little bit
of reading of a book by Tim Cresswell, he's a political geographer
which I'm really, really enjoying. It's really interesting. I'm currently reading
about graffiti in New York and ideas of things being in place and out of
place and ideas of transgression which I'm really, really enjoying. But I
need a bit of a bit of a perk up so that I can actually pay attention to it.
So, I've had a quick break to have a sandwich and to have a little bit of a
PlayStation break because this morning I did quite a lot of reading. Actually I
got through all of the book that I needed to get through. I didn't read the
whole book, I left out some of the case studies because they weren't so relevant
to my research, but I'm now on to the afternoon where I'm reading from an
actual physical book which is actually quite nice sometimes because I don't
particularly like reading off a screen. I'm finding I'm getting a bit
fractious being in the house at the moment. I think I've said before
that I know that I work better from home than I do from going into the University
Department just because I sit here and I actually get work done. But
sometimes it feels a little bit like I've spent an awful lot of time in the
house. Later on I've got a book to pick up in town so I will get to go to town
but at the moment I'm waiting for the shopping to come because we've got a
shopping delivery coming. Now, this is a weird book for a number of reasons up to and
including its really weird cover as you might be able to see there. But, also,
it's really hard to work out how to cite it. I'm gradually trying to work out... I think I've worked out who the editors
are. It's got a really odd page but I'm just trying to find a date when it was
published now. And this is actually really, really slightly annoying.
It's a very cool book, how it's put together put together but yeah. Hmm... This book
is nuts. It seems to make loads and loads and loads of sense for a little while
and then it will suddenly just walk off into something which sounds like it
might make absolutely no sense whatsoever. So it's been a bit more of a
tough read than the book I was reading this morning. I'm really not fan of this
style of writing. The book I was reading this morning gives examples like every
few pages. It's very much a groundbreaking book in its own way but is
always looking to find examples of how the author can explain what he's talking
about. This book seems to make everything as esoteric as possible and
as hard to understand which is really, really annoying. There's this thing George Orwell
said about using the simplest words you can and always trying to
explain things in the simplest way because it's the most democratic way of
writing because then the most people can understand it.
This book could really take some guidance from that I think. The shopping
arrived! Which means I can now finally leave the house which I've wanted to do for
quite a long time now. I'm absolutely sick to death of reading. Here's our
shopping in all its wonderful glory which has been delivered. I've got to put it all
in the fridge and then I will head off into town which should be fun.
Bye Tony, see you later!
book, TV aerial and egg bytes. That is the trip to town pretty much mission
accomplished. I can't really be bothered to go home just yet so
I'm going to sit here and read my book for a little while.
TV aerial and... it works! TV while we cook.
Oh no!
What you witnessed at the end there was me managing to spill oil
all over the floor which took a little while to clear up but then we had some dinner
and watched a little bit of House of Cards and Katy's gone to sleep
because she is a proper Doctor and she's got to be up really early in the morning. I, on
the other hand, am staying up and reading a little bit of the book which I
bought this afternoon. I've been really looking forward to reading this book for
a little while now. It looks at the rise of the alt-right online. At the
moment I'm looking at trying to write play about that or set in that
world or something. I've got some ideas about where it might go
but I was really keen to do a bit of background research. So, I ordered this one into Waterstones.
I'm going to see out my evening now by getting a little bit
further into this one. And I might give some thoughts on it on my
channel at some point. But, yes, that is my Tuesday done. Hello! If you have
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