It seems that everybody's been busy

Looking forward to starting your PHD?

Exactly. I am indeed I was planning to start after Christmas, but if the professor wants me to start before that then I will. The guy who's gonna be my supervisor is very high profile so he's a good one to work with. L.A. is still my friend though

I've just been to my local spar and they're selling Xmas stuff already. Ugh! Ridiculous timing. In December, yes but September?! Really?

Off topic, I know.

We have just covered some music trivia in the No Hollyoaks Saturday thread in the Soaps section. Ironically, there have been more music-related posts there than here tonight!

I've got my meeting with the professor at 2. Hopefully it'll be good news.

Evening.

Hows your day been? I'm watching "Pretty Little Liars" and drinking some cider whilst waiting for dinner to finish cooking.

This is my new TV addiction. I'm a box set junkie.





Here's hoping

Meeting was a success! He wants a proposal within the next few days. My law school is also offering two scholarships for new PhD students, worth €16,000 a year for 4 years

cool

What do you want to do when you've finished your schooling?

Well it's looking like I could be heading for an academic career. If I get the scholarship, I'd be required to give the odd tutorial in my law school, supervise exams, help lecturers with marking, fill in for lecturers if they are away or ill, organise conferences and seminars and publish a few papers. I'd have to do about 120 hours a year of teaching and other duties. It sounds like preparation for an academic career and that means I could end up lecturing in a university, either the one I'm in or a different one, depending on where I can get a job.

I've just been looking through old threads and noticed a lot of older DS members usernames popping up like JoshPinder and musicdude.

Where did these people go? They used to post on DS all of the time.

musicdude got banned and Josh Pinder posts or used to post mainly in the Madonna Appreciation Thread or any threads on Madonna (his all time fave artist).

Listening to Joy William's "Venus" album. She has the most beautiful voice.


I remember that Josh used to post a lot in the Britney & Christina appreciation threads. I remember that he was a big Madonna fan too.

I thought that the ban was lifted after a while? Maybe musicdude just decided not to post anymore.

Why has this thread disappeared off the radar??

I've been wondering the same thing, cnbc.

Got my Queen vinyl boxset at the weekend and been listening ever since. It's the best way to really appreciate their genius.

Nothing better than listening to your favourite music. My copy of Ashley Monroe's "The Blade" arrived today. I'm looking forward to adding it to my car.

Maybe it has become less commonplace for people to reply to anyone's posts directly anymore?

That is an excellent album

I love it

I ordered tickets for a concert that takes place this coming Tuesday and the tickets have still not been dispatched. I've contacted the venue but they're telling me to contact the people who I bought tickets from, understandably. Getting no reply from the ticket company on twitter .

It takes a while for things to arrive once they've been dispatched and we can remove Sunday from the possibly delivery days too.

Hello? Anyone there?

This thread used to be so active and I've just had to do a thread search to even find it.

What are you all listening to? I've been listening to The Pretty Reckless's new album a lot lately and Brothers Osborne.

One of my absolute favourite artists is coming to the UK next year. i'm gonna be so happy if I manage to get Miranda Lambert tickets. I saw her earlier on this year at Country 2 Country and she was brilliant. I've been a fan of her for years and I can't believe that she's never played in the UK before. Unfortunately the tickets go on sale on days when I'm at work. It's typical that they're putting them on sale on my work days and not my off days.

What have you all been up to?

Hi all,

My favourite album of the year has to go to Solange- A Seat At The Table. I'm so hoping she tours here next year

Cool. Haven't spoken to you for at least a year! How are things?

I'm waiting for a pre-sale to start for Miranda Lambert tickets. Hope I get them

Busy in my final year of Uni so everything is somewhat hectic hope things are well with you too

Good luck, I hope you get the tickets. Last gig I saw as the DMA's when they came to Bristol. Good band very oasis, not a bad gig.

Solange isnt my fav album of the year but it deserves the title as "the most surprising album of the year" as i have never liked any of her previous material and I had no interest in any future releases from her. I only checked it out because i was eager to check out some new music and i came across it by chance.