Ecclectic Little Collection Of Life

Nerdy History Kid at Nottingham Trent Uni/Victorian Historian/Lover of books and antiquities/Friend to many/Slave to the public/Proud owner of an amazing city centre apartment with my good friend Tim...

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I'm still going, I'm going to be well over the word count, but hopefully some really shit sections will be hidden by 3 epic and details paragraphs... I would really like to sleep right now, but I can't and need to finish this bloody report.

The I can wave goodbye to Crime and Conscience coursework forever....

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Back At Uni...

Wow, so I managed to write my dissertation and get it printed and in on time! Epic stuff. I do need to write a slightly more detailed post on my life... however, I am now up writing yet another assignment.

Just a short one, 2000 words on a database that I had to make containing sources from The Times, 1875, concerning rape and sexual assault cases. Joyful.

There will be another post much later as procrastination and panic take their toll.

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King Blues Tonight...

Typing now, then shower, then train, then to Cottons Rhum bar for a cheeky beverage, and then to KOKO to watch me some King Blues...

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Procratstiation...

Has led me to discover the huge amount of free books available on Kindle.. Loads of them are so useful to what I'm studying.. I'm such an idiot for not bothering to find this out sooner!

I can't wait til I can actually afford to buy a kindle so I don't have to read everything on my laptop!!

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Extra Pressure!!

I'm still plugging away at the dissertation and have just had Judith spring a meeting on me... I have to go meet her in Kensington tomorrow at half 1 and show her what I've done so she can quickly look over everything and tell me that I've gone completely wrong!

So by the end of today I WILL have all my references sorted for each chapter, chapter 2 finally corrected, and chapter 1 done. Oh, and I also need a plan for my introduction and conclusion  I don't really need to have these written fully until Friday.

Then my weekend will be spent formatting and making sure I've included everthing in my bibliography and appendixes..

And then Staples on Tuesday! :) I can't believe I'm within walking distance of the finish line of this one! And I can't believe that I've chosen to put myself through this AGAIN next year... The masters will kill me!

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More Productivity...

I'm back in the living room after a weekend of family gatherings... I'm now on to my first chapter, and then I'm going to correct my second chapter and make sure the references are OK. Then I'd better back everything up! Chris is at work so I'm hoping for a few hours of work before he gets back and I get massively distracted!

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Productiveness...

Sat in Chris's living room doing my dissertation... It's so weird! The last time that I was here was at Christmas. I can smell dinner and Pointless is on the TV.. AND I've managed to rewrite the first half of my second chapter! I'm so nearly done with the first half of the plan! I can't wait to see the bloody end of this dissertation! On a much happier note - yesterday we went to the Doctor Who Experience in London and ate dinner in Planet Hollywood. It was a pretty awesome day - I have many geeky photos, and, yes, I did get a tiny bit excited at the prospect of 'flying a tardis'... I am a shameless geek :) Chris enjoyed it too to be fair!

Right, back to typing!

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So Little Time...

I'm having my last full day in the flat before going to stay with Chris and his folks tomorrow so that I have somewhere quiet to do my dissertation away from all of the distractions of work, friends, and just going out in general... Dale was meant to be here today so that I could help him with rewriting his literature review as he's mega stuck on it. However, he hasn't shown... I think I may have been blown off for the girlfriend that everyone but me officially knows about. It's so weird that he hasn't mentioned it - he's just taken to acting strangely instead... Oh well, in other dissertation news, because I have no social life for the next 2 months anyways, my supervisor emailed me back. she liked the majority of what I'd done but said that I needed to add in an extra chapter aside from my historiography explaining more about the social situation surrounding the need for baby farming, and mentions of it in 19th century literature (Adam Bede, Oliver Twist etc.) and then lead on about the Infant life protection act as a way to combat the rise of the trade. Then I'm on to Amelia Dyer... The chapter that will absolutely kick ass... Yeah, only I will even appreciate my dissertation but it's still worth getting a little bit excited over!!! I'm also struggling with my dedication page... It's not meant to be that important, but it is to me. I don't want just a list of names, I think I want an appropriate message for each person. I have one for Chris, and I think I have one for my mum, but apart from that I have no idea!

Oh well, back to typing about Ms. Dyer and her wonderful infant nursing habits...

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I've emailed one chapter off to Judith... Eeeep!

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ARGH...

I'm onto chapter 3 and I think I need to include a shorted chapter, maybe, defining baby farming etc, although, this could go into my historiography... So I have: *Title page/dedication/forward *Introduction - why I'm even bothering to put myself through this stress *Historical/Literature review - leading on from the intro and showing what I have already learned and why I will be adding to this base of knowledge *Chapter 1 - an explanation of the Infant Life Protection Act 1872, and an analysis of the legislation that was involved, and an argument to state that it was purposely designed to fail. *Chapter 2 - A case study of Amelia Dyer - one of London's most prolific baby farmers, and one who apparently 'slipped through the net' of the ILPA. If there even was a 'net' to slip through - I will also discuss the inadequacies of the police in investigating her, and her supply of children to others that we arrested for baby farming. Moreover, that Dyer was ONLY charged for the murder of a child, and the ILPA was never mentioned in her trial. *Conclusion - On the relevance of the Infant Life Protection Act, the effectiveness that it had on the baby farming trade, the minimal effect that it had on Dyer and her work, and what my research has done in answering this question *Bibliography, notes, appendixes (photos, newspaper clippings, and case evidence) WOW! I think I actually have a full blown 15000 word plan here.. including quotes and stuff.. I really don't have time to go to work tonight!

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Right, I'm calling it a night on the laptop, but will now sit up for another hour and do some chapter planning... :D

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Are we human because we gaze at the stars? Or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?

This is absolutely unfathomable - It makes me feel so small and insignificant... Hubble has captured the most detailed image to date of the open star cluster NGC 290 in the Small Magellanic Cloud. The star cluster, NGC 290, is located about 200,000 light-years away and is roughly 65 light-years across.

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Distracting Song...

Let's dance in style let's dance for a while, Heaven can wait we're only watching the skies, Hoping for the best but expecting the worst, Are you gonna drop the bomb or not? Let us die young or let us live forever, Don't have the power but we never say never, Sitting in the sandpit life is a short trip, Music's for the sad man Can you imagine when this race is run, Turn our golden faces into the sun, Praising our leaders getting in tune, The music's played by the mad man Forever young, I wanna be forever young, Do you really wanna live forever? Forever forever Forever young, I wanna be forever young, Do you really wanna live forever? Forever forever   Some are like water some are like the heat, Some are the melodies some are the beat, Sooner or later they'll all be gone, Why don't they stay young? It's hard to get old without a cause, I don't want to perish like a fading voice, Youth is like diamonds in the sun, And diamonds are forever, So many adventures couldn't happened today, So many songs that we forgot to play, So many dreams swinging out in the blue, We let them come true

Forever young I wanna be forever young, Do you really wanna live forever? Forever, forever Forever young, I wanna be forever young, Do you really wanna live forever? Forever, forever Forever young, I wanna be forever young, Do you really wanna live forever? Forever, forever Forever young, I wanna to be forever young Do you really wanna live forever? Forever, forever...

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Dissertation....

I have almost finished my 1st chapter.... which includes about 30 references and is my most complicated chapter... And then its on to my second chapter - all about Amelia Dyer and her connections to the underworld practice of baby farming. Dramatic!! I am excited to write it because it's actually mega interesting, and I will have done it! I just hope that my supervisor likes it, and, doesn't think that I've gone off on a tangent too much! I think that I'm going to have carpel tunnel by the end of this though!

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Endurance Test...

So...

I'm having a quick pit stop in my marathon dissertation typing session. I have to have at least 2 chapters and my conclusion done today... I will do my intro last and include all my historiography etc then. Maybe going out last night wasn't a bright idea... I am going to sit at my dining room table all day until this is finished.. I may need to pop downstairs to tesco at some point and get food though as I might waste away sat at my laptop! On another note... Firefox 4... BOOM!

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I Give Up... Time For A Sneaky Student Discount Session With Jade At Yo! Sushi...

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Update....

Wow,

I haven't been on here in AGES to update properly... I have some rather lovely photos of Berlin and ofa few nights out... OH and of London Fashion Weekend! I just don't have ANY time - the end of third year uni has TAKEN OVER MY LIFE!

I have a research project and a dissertation to do.. I've even cleared off the dining table so I can sit there and not look out of the window - clearly window watching should be a sport..

Ah well... better get some book reading done...