Have Lion, Will Travel (4 days to go)
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Change your stars, said the film, so I’m taking the hint,Heading west with a lion for many Build-A-Bear stints.A professor, it says, but I’m wondering what for;Not less than the…
Mental Health
Churchill Fellowship: This Seemed Much Less Terrifying on the Application Form
There are now 19 days until I leave for America for my Churchill Fellowship …. 19! When it was 100-and-something this felt exciting and comfortably theoretical, and even 50 was…
Assembly Required: The Autistic User Manual (Neon Signs Sold Separately)
There’s a particular look people get when they’ve quietly decided I don’t like them…. a polite retreat, a small folding-away, usually arriving after I’ve gone silent for three weeks or…
May the 4th Be With You (It Genuinely Was For Me …. Four Years Ago)
Four Years Ago I Got Out of a Taxi and Something Weird Happened Today is May the 4th, which, this being ECS at Southampton, means today is also the four-year…
Things I Learned Slightly Later Than Would Have Been Ideal: An International Women’s Day reflection
International Women’s Day always makes me pause for a moment. Not in the “stand on a stage and deliver inspirational wisdom” sense… more the slightly quieter “cup of tea and…
Feeling Everything (and Quite Enjoying It, Actually)
When I was younger, I didn’t know why the world sometimes felt like an assault course. Everyone else seemed to breeze through things that left me fighting back tears. I…
Jigsaw Without a Lid
Everyone’s talking again,not behind me this timejust around.Like analysts swapping notes,passing fragments across the deskand calling it care. Maybe it is care.Maybe it’s curiosity.Maybe it’s cruelty disguised as friendship.I can’t…
Mission: Support the Investigators and Get Myself a Life!
Digital forensics can break you!!! I’ve seen it. I’ve felt it. Now, thanks to a Churchill Fellowship, I’m heading to the USA (and virtually across Europe) to explore how we…