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I am glad they seem to realise it is a bit of a joke. lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Broke my mobile, dropped! So I probably won’t be answering my number until I get a new phone.

EDIT: 29/08/08 Got a new phone. Can everyone send me a text with their name in it please

My PhD is now available online through the UWS library.

EDIT: Ok, so here it is on the ADT site, not actually loading the pdf, however.

EDIT: Ok, try this link.

I have basically finished an article based on my PhD research. Most other articles I have published have not actually been based on my PhD, but have emerged on the side. My academic work, especially my PhD, is nothing like my blog writing.

There is about 200 more words or so to chop out to reach the 8000 word magic limit that most journals seem to want.

EDIT 20/08/08: AWAY! It is submitted to a journal! (And loaded onto my university’s online student interface for my classes! They will gleefully point out any errors…)

I have finally started rewriting and editing large sections of my dissertation for the purposes of producing journal articles. The impetus is actually the course I am teaching this semester as the co-cordinator of the unit, Jame Arvanitakis, demanded I include some of my writing in the reader! I didn’t really have anything suitable already prepared except in dissertation form. So this is only a good thing as it it is forcing me to reassess some parts of my thesis and streamline the argument and evidence for an article-length publication.

The most useful part of my research is the section on the history of the Summernats and the commodification of enthusiasm in the scene of modified-car culture. The main problem at the moment is how to condense the material from my dissertation. It takes me the first two chapters of my dissetation to introduce the concept of enthusiasm and then a further three chapters to outline the shift I want to focus on in the article. This is about 55,000 words. So I need to extract a 8,000 word version. Fun times!