Hello! There’s been a moderate amount of progress since my last post, health issues and trigger thumb notwithstanding! I’m still very slowly plugging away on Watermyth, even though every now and then I negative self-talk myself with “you’re doing all this work but you’ll be lucky if five people buy/read it”. Nevertheless, life is short … Continue reading From The Escritoire 20/06/2022
I’ve been meaning to post this since last week but I’ve been unwell and completely bogged down by various things. The third series of the Fairytale Salon will be happening on the 15th of June from 815am EST to around 1030am (that’s 815-1030PM Malaysian time) and you are welcome to attend. QR code for registration … Continue reading Fairytale Salon III: Gothic Encounters in Folklore and Fairytale Studies
I thought yesterday was nearly the end of me. I woke up with a strange throbbing pain near my eye and the bridge of my nose. I had a sense that maybe I could be hypoglycaemic because since I started taking insulin again along with Jardiance, trying to make sure my blood sugars don’t dip … Continue reading From The Escritoire 12/06/2022
2022 has been galloping through, so far. There’s been a lot going on for me on the professional and personal front. I won’t say anything about the pandemic except that it’s really not good for everyone’s mental/emotional health, particularly not for emotionally fragile creatives with anxious dispositions. Stuff I’ve done: Completed both my MA and … Continue reading From The Escritoire 14/03/2022
Can you believe we’re well into the second month of the year? I can’t! So much has been happening in my world and I’ve just been trying to juggle all the research-related work I’ve been doing with the teaching, the supervising, the reading of PhD proposals, the grant application process and something else I’m cooking … Continue reading From The Escritoire 8/02/2022