Well, 2 posts later and here I am. In 2015.
Status: Still in Aust. Still ploughing through my degree. Thesis still haunts me - need to make amendments before I send it away forever. And still on placements.
Estimated release: Insha-Allah mid May? Oh I don't know.
Current mood: In a word, 'Meh'. It is not fun being away from home, especially when everyone you love is there.
Aside: I do need to start writing again. I was watching this TED-Ed talk on writing, and I was inspired. The video was on the use of "zombie nouns", or, in boring technical terms, "nominalisations". This occurs when words morph into chunkier, lifeless versions of themselves. Examples include: global---globalise---globalisation. So writing becomes expressionless and quite frankly difficult to read. Just like most academic readings where writers seem to have this insecure need to pomp up their words to show how brilliant their works are. So anyway, I have decided, I shall write again. And that my words will come alive.
Alive!
http://blog.ed.ted.com/2014/05/29/be-a-better-writer-in-15-minutes-4-ted-ed-lessons-on-grammar-and-word-choice/
Status: Still in Aust. Still ploughing through my degree. Thesis still haunts me - need to make amendments before I send it away forever. And still on placements.
Estimated release: Insha-Allah mid May? Oh I don't know.
Current mood: In a word, 'Meh'. It is not fun being away from home, especially when everyone you love is there.
Aside: I do need to start writing again. I was watching this TED-Ed talk on writing, and I was inspired. The video was on the use of "zombie nouns", or, in boring technical terms, "nominalisations". This occurs when words morph into chunkier, lifeless versions of themselves. Examples include: global---globalise---globalisation. So writing becomes expressionless and quite frankly difficult to read. Just like most academic readings where writers seem to have this insecure need to pomp up their words to show how brilliant their works are. So anyway, I have decided, I shall write again. And that my words will come alive.
Alive!
http://blog.ed.ted.com/2014/05/29/be-a-better-writer-in-15-minutes-4-ted-ed-lessons-on-grammar-and-word-choice/
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