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wally you're a poet,
And oh of course, you know it!
Your poems are fine,
There wasn't a better rhyme!

Well the nerd-geek distinction - hmm, I find I wear glasses (very thin, but yes, very high power) and am very capable of drawing a huge amount of professional admiration from men but usually a 'liking' is a No No.

Hmm. KeepCalm I think i fall into the nerd category, which wears glasses and are incapable of getting a partner.

Sigh. Time for a drink.

I cannot get the nerd-geek distinction but I am definitely any or both.

I get the uneasy feeling that nobody reading this post is too surprised at my 'confession'.

Ah well. :p

I'm heading for a heartbreak this Valentines, so, yes, mods, a smiley would help.

I thought I saw Wally in the users online list today briefly, but I am may have been wrong, it may have been the star users list..

@sneas PS on below - yes, I used linguine too, better than noodles... I think I went overboard with the chilli flakes, will keep in mind next time!

Sneaks that sounds delicious - has all my favourites in it - chilli (small amounts though), garlic and the best - king prawns!!

Will try it out sometime this week :-)

Bug

Sneaks would you mind sharing the amazing chilli prawn noodle recipe? Thanks so much if you can!!

Bug

@Sneaks - doesn't your dept have ruls of some sort that make this compulsory? In ours, you must have hour long meetings with sup every fortnight in first year, then every 3 weeks till submission. All meetings one hour long. And all written work is to be comented upon within a fortnight of submission. I haveheard of a couple exceptions, but the big profs always follow this regimen, and it's usuly the littler people who are seen to not reply etc etc..

:-) My sup sent back a fully written paper many times till I submitted a version 16 or something to her. It was going to go the *the* toughest and most important conference in our field that needs full length papers (original) from 8 months in advance.

Anyway, she said for that version 16 - "hmm. excellent paper. But not a communicative act. Nobody shall find a way into it".

So back I came again and did a version 17.

It got accepted. We both beamed from ear to ear!

(I still dont know how to make my writing a communicative act though!)

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KC - put it in, for sure. You are reflecting on space and place, and of course space and place are mediated, and mediated intensely. It is hardly flouncy and as a social science communications researcher who uses literary theory (amongst other stuff) to understand internet use, I am fascinated by what I think you are thinking of writing...

go on you, put in a para or half of reflections on this, as appropriate.

:)

lovely topic :)

My sup recently made me omit the personal narrative from a specific paper submission for that particular place demands a different social science style ( i have a personal intellectual narrative for my phd that slowly merges into a collective European agenda)

however, yes of course, my thesis opens with a paragraph on specifically this where I list the first three texts I read in myfield and in what ways they profoundly continue to inspire my intellectual agenda in a very diferent moment of mediated communication...

For journal article I write out of this I omit this, but for my thesis, and if ever it is to become a book, there is no way I'd leave this out...it helps me make sense of what I do, why I do it in the way I do, and why at all this agenda might be important...

:)

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Hi, I speak very (too) fast and this is the biggest criticism I always get.. I always write my talk and have slides aswell, bu dont quite 'read out' but talk the talk...that way I do 3000 in 15 -17 mins and have done a 9000 words paper as a talk in 55 mins...

but depends on what areas it is in, what kind of audience it is, and how you want to 'fillett' your time..

Edit to add - 9000 word paper in 1 hr was mainly reading out conversationally and was just too fast, so i'd probbaly say KeepCalm's 7500 is a nicer pace :)

Hi there - you may not find too many responses or as much detail for this is largely an anonymous forum... I may be wrong though!