‘Spring Break’ 09-15 April
09 Monday April: Informed by my mother that my paternal grandfather Eddie James died last Friday, 06 April. This means that in the past roughly one year, I have lost my father, my godmother, my paternal grandmother and now my paternal grandfather. Having trouble concentrating today.
10 Tuesday April: Re-read Myths to Live By. Made
family phone calls.
11 Wednesday April: Family phone calls and
arrangements; will not personally be in attendance of the funeral. Made preparations
for tomorrow’s research day and the interview with Peter Barber.
12
Thursday April: Interview with Peter Barber, Maps Room, British Library,
London.
13 Friday April: Raw transcription of
interview with Peter Barber. Updated social media. Read article for next week’s
seminar discussion of ‘Narrativity’.
14/15 April Weekend—did nothing in direct
support of research. Please note: have learned that the university libraries in London (and surrounding) close for the week before and two weeks after the Easter Break. In response to this, students bereft of their familiar faculty, descend in force upon a beleaguered British Library. There were no open desks in ANY of the reading rooms . . .
‘Spring Break’ 16-22 April
16 Monday April: Transcription of
interview with Peter Barber and citing references. Read background articles for
the interview. Taped BBC 4 broadcast discussion of Drake’s Circumnavigation
Medal, part of “Shakespeare’s Restless World’ exhibition preparation.
17 Tuesday April: Reviewed and edited raw
transcription. Answering emails.
18 Wednesday April: Cy’s seminar discussion of ‘Narrativity’.
19
Thursday April: Today my father would have been 70. Taking a day away from
research for personal reasons. Also battling a cold.
20 Friday April: 'Disciplinarity' Symposium at
Museum Studies, University of Leicester. Still miserable with cold and feeling
incredibly tired, I left the seminar an hour early.
21/22 April Weekend—did nothing in direct
support of research.
