… because I’m home in Aberystwyth again.
And there was a note in the post to say that UWP is accepting the thesis-book proposal. Perhaps I should frame it. OK, that does mean I have to really get down to the revisions now…
But bad things may have happened with the video taping while I was away. The digital decoder box was showing a blank display, which is never a good sign. There might have been a power cut. Or the box (it’s one of the old ONDigital boxes; they’re crap, but I haven’t got round to getting one of those new decoders) just had one of its periodic fits. Anyway, I shan’t know what, if anything, I’ve lost until I wind back the tape.
2 comments on “All’s well with the world…”
Congrats on the book!
Thanks!
(I think you can tell how tired I was when I wrote that post from the lack of !!!) Actually, having
readdeciphered it properly – boy is that editor’s writing a classic academic scrawl – it’s kind of assuming that I already knew the proposal had been accepted (yes, it all sounded positive when he asked for revisions to the original proposal, but some kind of clear (in several senses of the word) ‘yes, this is OK now, we can move on to the next stage’ response to the revised thing would have been nice)…So I’m moaning about my publisher, does that mean I’m a real academic now?! (I’ve done plenty of moaning about university admin already; the main gap in my bitching portfolio is personnel and the new lecturers’ training ‘scheme’, which I don’t have to do.)
Anyway, I now have to come up with a ‘realistic’ date for completion of the MS. So how long is a piece of string again? It all depends on me summoning up rather more enthusiasm for the task than I’ve managed over the last couple of months…