I'm aware that I haven't posted anything on this blog since Christmas. Indeed, I haven't even sent so much as a
tweet. The trouble is the proverb tattoed onto the foreheads of all academics: I've just been too busy.
Shortly after Christmas, I got appointed to teach on a second
Open University course. This is a largescale introduction to the arts course, covering everything from literature to music to the history of art to religion. As such, I've been doing much mugging up, and lots of preparation to get my teaching off the ground. This has been fun (and obviously it's another toe in the academic door that is oh-so-slowly creaking open before me) but also a lot of additional and unexpected work.
I've also had to get on with writing an annual report for a major research institute, as well as dealing with a whole pile of marking that I managed to put off over the Christmas holidays.
Things are, though, starting to clear slightly, and so normal service should be resumed quite shortly. Indeed, I feel the urgent need to reawaken those dormant neurons that I use for writing, and with no chance to get any academic projects underway during term time, I want to push out a number of quicker and easier blog posts that have been lurking in the back of my mind over the last month or so.
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