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“A schoolchild should be taught grammar―for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy. Having learned about the exciting mysteries of an English sentence, the child can then go forth and speak and write any damn way he pleases.”
From Writings from The New Yorker 1927-1976 by E.B. White

So if you enjoyed reading about my adventures abroad, check out my new blog. This one focuses on my journey as a writing. It will include short stories, character sketches, book reviews, and reflections on my writing process, as well as anecdotal incidents in my life as a writer. It is completely different from this blog, but I'm excited to explore a different side of myself with you!
Okay, so the link's below. I've already got a book review up, so check it out (if you really want to live on the wild side, you can follow it. I know that might be too much of a commitment for you). Enjoy!

My New Blog: Amy Finds Her Words

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After staying up all night printing, then standing in line for 3 hours to get them bound, the proud WMG students show off their beautiful Dissertations!

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I have accomplished my final task . . .

The dissertation has been submitted! 

Enjoy this stop action film of the event

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Our prison

AKA the Library

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The deadline is creeping frighteningly close

To make matter oh so much better, today is a Bank Holiday and the university felt it was acceptable to close the library, and the PG Hub, so we had to work in the Learning Grid - with everyone else who has dissertations due. In other words it was packed and loud, not a good working environment. 

Surprisingly there was only one meltdown all day and it didn't happen until after 10pm, so that's something.

Panic and Stress

"'I like the cover,' he said. 'DON'T PANIC.' It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day.'"
From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

It's setting in. The panic. All assignments have it, of course, but there's something about the word "dissertation" that makes everyone's lungs seize and hyperventilation set in.

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Do you see it!

The light at the end of the tunnel!

(so close!)

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I have no idea what they are talking about, but since our lives revolve around dissertations and Sandra and Anni have sour faces, I can only guess it is related to that

Please note the time on the clock - I left "early" today (at 8pm so I could buy groceries)

That would make our days on average 12 hours long, so much fun

Four Weeks &Counting! - 

We Can Do This!

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There are benefits to the sun not setting until after nine...

Once in a while we escape our dissertations and see the sky

after slaving over books and computers for upwards of ten hours

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New View

We've been forced out of the PG Hub for a few days for 'maintenance'

Due to this we've moved to the fifth floor of the Library

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Reading a mystery set in London while in London

Cliche I know, but I couldn't help myself!

I had a lovely time at the National Gallery and Hyde Park

If I'd had a chance to stay the night somewhere instead of having to take the train back to Coventry I could have listened to the Rolling Stones! Sadly I felt spending the night in Hyde Park wouldn't be the best thing to do for my health. I did, however, get to enjoy listening to live music all day! 

Book Review: The Rithmatist

"He cut off as a quiet knock echoed through the room. Fitch cocked his head, then stood. 'Now, who . . .Oh yes. The other student.'
Joel hesitated. 'It’s not…'
He trailed off as Fitch pulled open the door. Sure enough, the red-curled Melody stood outside, wear her white skirt. She’d traded her grey sweater for a short-sleeved, buttoned blouse. She was actually kind of pretty—she had nice eyes, at least.
'I'm here,' she announced with a loud voice. 'Let the flogging commence!'
Too bad she was crazy.
'Flogging?' Fitch said. 'My dear, are you well?'"

From The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson

Check out my review of this book on the Read Me: An Anthology blog!

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It was a lovely day so I went outside and read

These were a small number of the large collection of geese that decided to keep me company

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At the Read Me: An Anthology Launch Event

(I might have been feverish and light-headed the whole day, but whatever, everything turned out fine)

I have discovered that the older I get the more I seem to talk with my hands...somewhat reminiscent of my mother...and then I look at pictures like this and realize that I am starting to look like her...

Which isn't bad, I just wish I'd inherited her nice long legs! 

(I bemoan this all the time, you'd think I'd have accepted this fact by now!)

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I found a wonderful sunny spot to get some dissertation reading done

It made 'suffering' through reading The Silver Chair more bearable

Man, my life is hard! ;-)

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The Anthology Arrived on my doorstep while I was in Paris!

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Beautiful old books!

What inspired Me as a Writer

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
From Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

Read about the authors that inspired me to write on the Read Me Blog!
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