I’m in Mt Gambier. I suspect that 99% of you don’t know where in the world Mt Gambier is, I didn’t until I looked it up on Google Maps a few days ago. I’ve flown down from Adelaide for the day to teach the first year nursing students about the skeletal system, part of my [...]
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The one that you’re trusting suspiciously dusting the sill
And exhale.
Thursday morning, my Head of School knocked on the door of my office as I was taking off my coat. I invited him in to have a seat and the solemn look on his face nearly made me wilt. I’ve been living on annual contracts with the university since I got here and October [...]
I was handsome I was strong, I knew the words of every song.
We’re well into the Spring Semester here in South Australia. Or the second semester. Or ‘Study Period 5′ as it’s prosaically termed by university officials. It is the semester in which I earn my keep – coordinating the large lecture course I was hired to teach. But I’ve also taken on a number of other [...]
A commode of cultural confusion
Because my role at the university is teaching only and we’re in between terms, I spend most of my time at job number two these days. I toddled over to the university today as I do once a week or so to make sure that I’m still getting paid and they haven’t given my office [...]
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