It’s been a while since I last posted here — not since May, which is one long run of quietness. So, what’s been happening in my life?

After a year of posting fortnightly flash fiction, the Micro Fiction project that some friends and I have been working on has come to an end. It was sad to see the project finish up, but some of the authors have gone on to work on another site, Fictitious, where the projects are not necessarily limited to the flash fiction format. Also, if you want to try your hand at writing something, they’re open to people helping out on their different projects.

A bigger change is that I’m starting a job at Brandseye on Tuesday. I’ve been thinking of finding full-time work for a large portion of the year, and a few months ago began looking around. They’ve offered me a four-day work week, so hopefully the PhD will still be coming along, although at a much reduced pace.

Some music videos I’ve been watching and that have stuck in my brain: this seems to be a fan made video for Placebo’s cover of Running up that hill; I think the montage of people’s video messages works very well.

I’ve also finally listened to some of Radiohead’s newer music. In a vaguely similar theme to the Placebo track, Radiohead’s Videotape is quite explicitly about sending video messages (it’s a gentle, lovely song, but comes with a suicide trigger warning).

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