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Hey,

so I’m back on the Internet, thanks to two months worth of rollicking hijinks with iinet. Incidentally, it seems as though the ‘random upgrades’ that I mentioned in my previous post–conferred to our account with an official email, and an assurance that we need do nothing except enjoy the extra quota–were given to us ‘by accident’. And no, they can’t give us those same upgrades even though we have only transferred the account to a new address. So it’s back to slower speeds and less quota. But still, there are enough tubes to use Google Docs and play some Red Dead: Redemption multiplayer, so I’m happy.

My thesis is progressing. I’ve got a schedule marked out and I am more or less sticking to it. However, I can feel that the time is fast approaching when I will need to begin taking the work home. I’ve been very privileged so far to not have to do so; I could leave uni at uni and successfully wrangle both social life and uni life into two separate corrals. But in order to make certain that my time for the last three years has not been wasted, I need to knuckle down and churn out some publications (scientific rather than creative) to spruce up my C.V. So after briefly resurfacing thanks to my reconnection, I will likely disappear off the radar once more to make sure my Ph.D. is not the end of my academic career*.

You may have noticed a new heading up the top of my home page, entitled ‘Calendar‘. This is a new initiative of mine to provide a calendar for Australian writers looking to keep track of places to submit. It lists all the submission deadlines for competitions and journals that I am aware of, and if you click on any one of them it will provide additional information such as entry fees, or a website you can visit in order to read submission guidelines. I will be continually updating it as I find out about more publications. Any publications that have no specific issue deadlines will be listed and linked underneath the calendar. I hope this helps other writers just starting to submit who, like myself, find it a bit difficult to keep track of all the different dates and publications.

Speaking of writing, I’ve submitted a fair few pieces to journals around Australia of late. Most of them are responding in either June or July, so I’m expecting a lot of emails starting with ‘Your submission has not been chosen for publication…’ followed either by a signing off, an encouragement to submit next time, or a threat to never pick up a pen ever again. I fervently hope that this is the case, as if any get accepted I will likely explode with satisfied ego.

Alrighty, time to put the second half of a carrot cake in the oven and whip up the icing. Did you know how much sugar goes into those things? Small wonder there are obesity epidemics.

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*Let me be clear here: I don’t want to be a career academic. At some point in my life I want to escape the clutches of university. However, after talking to many colleagues and scientists around Australia (and the world), I’m advised that post-doctoral work is amongst the most rewarding.

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