I'm in the northwest KB!

No, but there are many I'd like to meet. It sounds like a great thing to do. x Perhaps next time I am in London - that could be a while tho.

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Thank you again all, I will defo look up the link in a few days, am having day off because I finished a chapter half yesterday - 8500 words! So some revision needed there, I think.

@ Joyce: I didn't know Marx used London as his example, that's really intersting because I'm looking at Englishness, and London features in what I'm looking at, especially in the chapter half I've just finished quite a lot. I've started to consider English capitalism - the relationships between English culture, capitalism, imperialism/general domination of the rest of Britain and places beyond, and the way that that's refered to as the British empire, but actually it's more of an English thing.

I haven't really looked at any Marx for my research yet, just a smidgen of Weber, but I am starting to think it will be important, so thanks for all the feedback. A lot of this is the result of fireworks going off in my head after finishing the last bit of wrting I've done.

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I just clicked all your helpful user buttons, but for some reason, Kilhatron, your didn't work it told me I've already voted for you when I clearly haven't because you don't have a star -Oh it's just appeared, all is ok then.

Thank you everyone, for the PGF style barometer re: Karl Marx's theory. I think it must be an old perennial, a classic that never dates, that's my personal view anyhow, and I guess in many ways it's up to us to decide its fate on furture academic editorials.

I have found myself, today, writing about marx's theories on capitalism in a sympathtic way. Although, I, personally, have absolutely no problem with this, in fact I think Marx is brill, I have heard that in academic circles, this kind of thinking is very old fashioned. I've even heard somebody saying 'boring marxist perspective' What do you think? Am I, in academic terms, wearing last season's trends, am I on the crest of a revival, or is marxist theory - like a classic trench coat or a black polo neck - an old perennial that never fades?

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It's an SBD - Silent But Deadly. Do not own up to a trump in public, unless it was loud and undeniably yours, then you can make a joke of it. But do not apologise.

If it helps any, I did the loudest trump of all time during the silent bit just before the Lord's prayer at junior school weekly assembly when I was 9. The entire school was there, everyone knew it was me, and there was much laughter, inluding a cooment from the headmaster. Afterwards, 'farty' was incorporated into my nick-name, but it didn't hinder me socially at all, at school or afterwards...

Hi Slowmo, I think that if someone doesn't let you know exactly who they are and where they are from, and why thy want the information, then they don't deserve a response - it's just not professional to approach someone without a proper introduction and explanation.

Blackberries are the work of the devil! They have no other purpose than stressing us out.

Are emails like text messages now? First thing I've heard of it, if they are. I can't add to what has already been said, but only offer solidariski in the face of such injustice.

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KC, do not fear, being perfect is not a comfortable, happy place to be; take it from someone who knows first hand. For example, I just had to eat a whole pack of salami and a big bag of vegetable crisps in order to prevent my amazingness shining out at full capacity and, thus, causing epileptic, disabling, responses in those I wish to keep as friends and colleagues.

Seriously though, I know loads of super good looking people who are achievers and who are miserable or have stubborn issues. Looks do not make people happy, in fact, I often think they can be disabling: they set up expectations in others, and hence disappointments for both parties. My stunningly beautiful old mate who runs one of the best courses of its kind in the country has all kinds of emotional stumbling blocks, and spent her younger years being swept off her feet and then hearbreakingly dropped - one time she found a collection of beautiful laydeee phone numbers on her then boyfriend's person - this was pre-mobile phone. My stunning aunty is the only single one of my dad's siblings, and has had a terrible time romantically, and my beautiful sister who all the boys adored had simialr problems in her youth. Some people see beauty as a commodity, and peope who have it can be used and abused for it.

So, no, given what I have seen, I do not envy beauty. Although I do feel a twinge when I hear people are being published in really good journals, cos that's what I want. I also envy people who have welll adjusted families who they see often, that's what gets to me.

As Wal says, KB, you are a triple star here, and not many can say that, can they?

Hi Charls, although I can't empathise completely, I can a bit: my fuzzy, mergey, sensitive thoughts and feelings can sometimes transform into very perceptive ones - It can make me see things very clearly, and much more perceptively than usual. So when I do get down to work I can be more focussed etc.

I take no messing at this time, and can make some very astute, if prickly, comments to people who are being a bit of a pain.

Hmmm thanks Sneaks, yep I did give a thought to what men might think of my post, but they get fuzzy brained too; I've seen it!

Snack a Jacks won't do it Sneaks, you need cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesecake. At least I do anyhow.

Good luck with the dog, my sister's dog used to do that too, really weird isn't it.

HHmmm, I am pre-menstrual today, and am finding it very difficult to do anything other than eat chocolate, drink cream soda, cry irrationally and vent my rage at the powers that be. Altough this is a cathartic time for me, and I alwyas find it benefical in that sense, I am also finding it nigh on impossible to settle down to work: my brain is yoyoing between dull empty greyness, feelings of manic, righteous rage about the injustices of the world and flighty criss crossing nonesensical thought processes. I feel if I were chained to my writing chair today then I would kill something. I think I'll pick up my pen later on, hopefully.

Any thoughts?

Yeah, let's sprout bomb faithy; revenge is the best cure for rejection. I didn't get one either, clearly, I am not trusty enough. :-(

HA, HA, HA! That was just a fleeting moment of craziness and is all in the past now. Not love. Just odd.