Good news from London, the city of 5 hour line ups to check-in for a flight due to insane security screenings. The good news is I will not be obsessing about my chapter for at least a week. The draft was emailed on Saturday night and now I am worrying about the accompanying 10 pages of explanation instead. At least this bit is not as much about my own theories as it is about my reasons. I have to talk about why this project is relevant to anyone! What academic 'hole' am I filling by writing about this topic and why is it interesting...sounds easy, but it is proving to be a whole new kind of frustrating! I have been here for three hours, and so far I would rather find things to 'research' online than actually write anything. But after this little interlude on my much neglected blog I will once again try to concentrate for more than 15 minutes at a time.
The beginning of July was spent on a trip to Canada/NY State. It was nice to see everyone, but hard, once again to be in different beds every few nights. I would love to have a holiday where I sleep in the same place every night and don't have to arrange travel plans for myself or anyone else! Someday...
I arrived back in this country three weeks ago and that is how long it took me to finish writing up a draft chapter which is now about 19,000 words...longer than my Master's thesis and yet it is just one chapter. The good part is that I only have to do that 4 more times! And of course edit everything including all my ideas, over and over and over and over (you get the idea) again!
Since returning I've managed to see The Comedy of Errors and Coriolanus at the Globe Theatre, as well as Henry VI parts I and II in Stratford-upon-Avon (for free no less!). This weekend I am off to Eastbourne for the church weekend away, where I will still have to do some reading...and then on Sunday to the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh as a friend has offered me a place to sleep for free! So more theatre on the horizon.
The main thing I have been missing is cooking, as I have been out of the house 6 of 7 days for the last three weeks. Cooking now involves cutting up celery and putting some oil and vinegar over it, and throwing together sandwiches of cheese and lettuce. And I've discovered that porridge is quite good cold and very easy to transport in tupperware. Not quite my normal culinary standards, I know!
Hopefully I will be able to be a little more adventurous once this 10 pages is in, although I have to empty the freezer of all my food so that I can move at the end of August or beginning of September. Always something to organise and plan instead of my chapter!
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