I don't know about all those other jobs you mention. But since you mention affording to eat: do please note, as the advert states, that beyond the basic salary there's unlimited free meals (not to mention subsidised accommodation & the research allowance), which one might add to the salary.

I have a basic pattern I stick to: Routledge Colloquial (until about ch 8), LingQ for as many mini stories (very good for high input audio and getting vocab), and pimsleur. Usually I do that for a month or two before having a conversation. I tend to prefer to have most grammar done before tutors.

And using ephemera as bookmarks makes second-hand books even more interesting – there is a lovely essay about this by Sarah Lonsdale in the latest Slightly Foxed magazine

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I was wondering the same thing

Postcards I bought (in museum shops) but never sent is a whole different genre. Hey, that's a new year's resolution right there

Possibly – I'd have to re-read what I've seen about graffiti. But a door jamb is a good place for protective symbolism

Also open to archaeologists! Come join us! There's a college museum with a mummy called Hermione!
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Oooh this passed me by!
Link for anyone reading this who can't be bothered to go looking for it:
www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...

Come and hang out with us next NYE. We'll drink ginger tea (I might have a little whisky too), eat Christmas cake and stocking filler chocolates and watch a really bad film, then go to bed at about 11pm

We love to take pride in a smug early night here