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When Bryce met me at work tonight, he brought along a big envelope from the University. I finally have received my unconditional offer to study for the PhD and Susan Manning will be my advisor (she’s now effectually advising me)! Now we just need to really pray for funding. I wish I didn’t have to work but we need to at least make a dent in our monthly expenses. I’ve applied for two scholarships thus far and will apply for at least for one more. All of which at least lower the present tuition, or pay for it completely, and one even has a 7000 pound maintenance grant! Please pray for God to work out our financial situation in whatever manner He sees fit. Thanks!

What I’m reading this week:
For Anglo Scots this week, Henry Mackenzie’s The Man of Feeling and Julia de Roubigne. I’ve read The Man of Feeling already; it reminds me in many ways of Voltaire’s Candide. The MoF is a story of Harley who encounters increasingly tragic experiences and reacts to them akin to Adam Smith’s notions of corporate sensibility. There’s also Mackenzie’s The Man of the World, which might be helpful to read for my research, but there aren’t any copies of it for lending in the University Library. For my core course (which is a bit of a waste of time, except I do have to write an essay for it), we are looking at postcolonialism and power and sovereignity, so we were given extracts from Michel Foucault and probably Jacques Derrida–theorists hard to understand essentially.

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