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Apologies for being incommunicado this week and hope none of you out there are too distraught not to be receiving the usual almost-daily MotV missives.

The reason for the silence is that I'm up to my neck, metaphorically-speaking, in research papers for my first grad course assessment. This experience has made me realise how rigorously un-academic I am in my thinking. It has also illuminated how reliant I am on red wine in order to get through endless evenings typing furiously on my laptop, not to mention the fueling of increasingly colorful curses that I feel obliged to aim at the University's online library system which consistently refuses to spit out any of the journals I'm desperate for (I refuse to believe this is 100% due to my technical incompetence...)

Oh well, if this is the price one has to pay in order to realize a long-cherished dream then it's not all that bad... No one ever said a mid-life career change would be easy. Wish me luck!

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We all know you've actually been hanging out with the young things in Mahiki ;)
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Anonymous said…
Why don't you put your papers on the blog? I don't think it would be "illegal" to do so from the course perspective and the feedback might be valuable.
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I HATE GRAD COURSE ASSIGNMENTS! you have my support. Love the skin your in because its the only skin youll ever get!
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