Busy.

However, we get there in the end: coursework delivered, oral exam schedule published, extracts selected & ready. Thunderbirds are go.

This week, next week & the one after are probably the most critical in the IB academic year. Get them out of the way & suddenly Spring is in the air, & thoughts turn again to things other than teaching.

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The 5th March issue of the LRB is especially good - the article on the government's misguided sell-off of student loan debt, John Lanchester (as always), David Craig on the spirit of England, Will Self on typewriters ... plus Adam Phillips still to read ...

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Wondering how to work a trip to London to see the Diebenkorn exhibition at the Royal Academy.