Welcome to Survive it Well, the podcast that had a four month time jump! Our dissertations have been submitted, Aparna is back in India, Haley’s back in Canada, and we have a ten and a half hour time difference between us. For the main discussion, we revisit the days leading up to submitting our dissertations and then explore the contradictory feelings of being done. Haley discovers that poetry and physics are the same. Aparna regales us with the stories of her boxing training.
The punchline regarding the After Eight went thusly:
Aparna: *hands Haley a chocolate*
Haley: Oh! An after eight!
Aparna: It's an After MA *smirk*
Aparna spotlights the publishing house Barrington Stoke (https://www.barringtonstoke.co.uk/)
Haley spotlights the podcast If Books Could Kill hosted by Michael Hobbes and Peter Shamshiri (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/if-books-could-kill/id1651876897)
Mentions:
Wisława Szymborska’s “The Ball” and “Possibilities”
marginalia.com (previously known as Brain Pickings)
Being the Ricardos, film 2021
“You’re Wrong About” podcast hosted by Sarah Marshall
“Maintenance Phase” podcast hosted by Michael Hobbes and Aubrey Gordon
Thank you to Pádraig Ó Tuama whose poem “The Facts of Life” inspired the title of this podcast.
Cover image by Sanjana Kapur.
