Can't believe how fast this year is going! Snowdrops, crocuses and soon daffodils rushing up all over the meadows, Princes St Gardens and in wee gardens in Comely Bank Avenue.

Latest lot of MA assignments include essay on theory and how it affects authorial practice, presentation on postcolonial theory, short story, re-writing myth, shakespeare or murder ballad, writing a synopsis and back cover blurb for final project, writing stuff for final project (thriller or bipolar story or Pick's Disease story). Och, it'll happen. It will.

Match.com have gone all fancy and have started bombarding me with emails every time anyone so much as glances at my profile. My spoof profile for Dracula is still up but not getting as much interest as me! Also my facebook alter ego has finally agreed to let me be friends with her.

Off to the Poetry Library on Monday with some students - should be good.