January 2012 Update

This blog has been quiet for a fairly long time. Sorry. So for future context this is what has happened:

1.) I handed in my dissertation and took some exams, thereby finishing my four years of undergraduate study.
2.) The internet is no place for false modesty - I got a first! Hurrah. Jubilations. I received a very pretty certificate with my name on, and even managed not to trip on stage when I graduated.
3.) I spent the Summer working in a bookshop (again), punctuated by a visit to CERN and very happily rounded off with some time spent cycling around the isle of Skye.
4.) I started an MA in Classics.
5.) Around the same time I was appointed a 'Classics Teaching Fellow in Schools', in charge of leading two ten week Classics courses (an hour a week) in local state schools, starting January. This is organised by the University of Bristol and funded by Classics for All (in their first allocation of funding for projects!) - as I've mentioned before, I went to a comprehensive and the accessibility of Classics has always been one of my interests/bugbears, so I'm very excited about the whole thing.

And since then I've just been working for my courses and worrying about the fact that I haven't a clue what to write my master's dissertation on. At the moment I'm spending most of my time in the library: I have a triple essay hand-in (12,000 words) in less than two weeks. I also start teaching the same week, so more on that later. Thanks for reading (if anyone is reading) and happy new year.