Ksenia Afanasyeva during qualifications last Wednesday, in Montpellier. Courtesy RGF It's way too early in the morning to be blogging, really, but unless I seize the day and get down to a bit of writing I'll never be able to update you. I'm bang in the middle of grading season so my hours and thoughts are mostly taken up with concerns for my students at the Uni where I work full time. But, for my blog, I will find a few quiet moments in the earliest hours of the day. I should really be asleep, but it's that kind of London morning when the birds are tweeting and the mist is drifting gently over the gloomy skyline. You can smell the faint tinge of vehicle emissions in the polluted air. It aggravates my asthma. But the promise of spring is still there, predicting a summer when perhaps I will finally find the time to make the changes I need, to find somewhere to live that doesn't make me cough and make more space and time for the writing a...
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