Currently:

Working on

Thesis chapter 4 - Culture

Ideological cores under pressure

Reading (work)

Murray Bookchin - Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism

More Bourdieu than I ever wanted to! But also James C Scott Domination and the Arts of Resistance and Weapons of the Weak plus Bakhtin Rabelais and his World which are pretty interesting.

Reading (not work)

Meg Cabot - Size 14 is Not Fat Either

Val McDermid - A Fever of the Bone

Listening regularly to

Big Country

The Tea Party

Blackmore's Night

The 'Currently' page linked to at the top of the blog gets changed as regularly as I can be bothered, which is usually once a week. I've decided to post archives on here for anyone who is weird enough to really want to know...

Woman in black

No, I am not in mourning for the world, although it is tempting to feel that way sometimes. I like to be able to keep my laundry to one load per week. Also, my hands get spazzy when I'm tired or nervous or sometimes for no reason I can discern, and these are also the conditions under which I like to drink coffee. (Including the last one.) White trousers would be a bad idea, black trousers are a good idea. After today I am also tempted to renew the waterproofing in my watch.

Hi

Hello *waves*. This is a bit of an experiment, as I've never blogged under my real name before despite having had at least two online identities that could be easily pinpointed by people who know me. It means I've missed out on stuff like linking to my blog from facebook, commenting on certain offline friends' blogs with a link and joining in certain debates. So I'm going to give open-air blogging a try and see what happens.