My kitten has decided that he’d prefer to sleep in his kitty bed this evening, freeing up my lap for pursuits such as knitting, web surfing, job hunting, hotel searching, and blogging. It’s a busy life, this being a woman of leisure.
To sum up, things remain good with the sole issue of still being [...]
While attempting to set up an Irish bank account, I remembered another crucial piece of official documentation I needed but had completely forgotten about: the PPS (Personal Public Service) number. This is akin to the American Social Security number, and like a SSN, you need one in order to do most things having to do [...]
I’ve neglected my corner of the blog so long I’m surprised there aren’t colonies of spiders and layers of cobwebs blocking my way in. The sad truth of the past year is that I’ve had nothing I wanted to share with the Internets: grim accounts of thesis writing, power struggles with my PhD advisor and [...]
Many popular and well-loved bloggers occasionally resort to posts of random miscellany. I poked around in the Way Back Machine yesterday and found some of the earliest Cobweb posts, as it appears the good folks at the Internet Archive are better at holding onto our posts than our old hosting company. I used to blog [...]