The reading habits of those who have too much time on their hands…

Ugh… I’m not good at feeling under the weather. It’s my first cold for a few months, and while it isn’t the worst thing I have ever experienced (indeed, I have one friend who is really rather ill), I hate how tired it makes me feel. I can breathe, but all of my senses feel [...]

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“Can I hear a ‘Wa-hey!’ from this corner of the room?”

Because of the Christmas work that I did, and despite all of the necessary, tedious ‘only being able to get a part time job’ stuff… I have officially made it out of my overdraft! Yay! Of course, it’s not by much, and I’m not saying how much, and all of that malarky (largely as my [...]

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Speaking as a bookseller…

    Okay, I may or may-not be a part-time bookseller for the company described in this article  by the Guardian (which should really know better, especially when it sells a lot of its books). I admit it. Therefore, this article explaining why my company is supposedly destroying an industry does not make much sense [...]

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All work and no play makes me… feel pretty productive.

“What have you been doing to wile away the hours, Graduatecalling?”   1. Work. This past fortnight has largely consisted of me jumping feet first into the explored yet still unchartered world of Christmas employment, but in an entirely positive and confidence building way. I deliberately state this-seemly obvious-fact as I have been part of [...]

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Circling the drain

I admire the fact that this description of what you can do with a History Degree says I have ‘a whole host of opportunities’. Where I can find these opportunties (behind the sofa?) remains fairly lacking. I would be lying if I said that I have been in a hive of industry recently. The fact [...]

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Congratulations and Felicitations, interviews, applications and hardcore literary action… Among other things

To explain what on earth I am going on about, I shall go through every point of this entry as the title suggests. 1. A Big Congratulations (grammatically, I shouldn’t have capitalised them, but it’s a big deal what I am talking about) to Localfreak for winning a scriptwriting competition. If you are interested in [...]

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Too many, uh, books spoil the broth?

I am writing this diatribe with a headache, so please be understanding if the grammar goes a little awry. I do tend to get a lot of headaches, a problem linked to just how long I sit in front of the computer typing in random words for You tube videos, but this one I haven’t [...]

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