I don’t know much about global economics. Actually, I don’t know much about much, to be honest. I know a little bit about the genetics of maize and the U.S. Civil War and 20th century Southern literature, but none of those things pay the rent these days.
I’m off track already. Australia seems to have been [...]
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Fear the hearts of men are failing
The thing is, Bob, it’s not that I’m lazy, it’s that I just don’t care.
Quick, for five points, name that film.
If you knew the answer from the title of this post, then I’ll bet you know what kind of week I’ve had.
Because I know people who have lost their jobs because of things they’ve said on their blogs, I’m going to leave out the specifics. That may be a [...]
And that’s how I ‘came your humble narrator, to be living so easy and free
I’m all over the place today – it’s getting to that time of the year when my two jobs converge, meaning that I have two play two roles in an equally half-assed manner. In my role as lecturer, I had to cancel a practical this morning because we couldn’t find any human DNA to use. [...]
Buddy the streets are a snake skin
It is raining today, the first time the skies opened on us since Christmastime. It’s a purgative kind of rain – washing dust from the streets and buildings, providing a measure of much needed relief for the parched soil. After nearly four years in soggy Britain, I firmly believed that I would be happy never [...]
From Thunder Bay to Saskatchewan
I was in the office for my writing job today. For those of you who are new around here, one of my jobs is as a scientific writer for a company that tests anti-cancer therapeutics. There are a couple of people in the office of whom I’m particularly fond. Our receptionist is a young Canadian [...]
I get slandered, libeled, I hear words I never heard in the Bible
I’ve spent I don’t know how many hours at work lately revising a set of reports for a, shall we say, precise (pedantic) client. Every time I send it back to her, she comes back with 9,000 other new little problems that she’s discovered. I’m fairly certain that this is some kind of karmic just [...]
Beach Bums
Starting today and continuing until my karma wears out, I have Mondays free. Which means that Mondays have become the best day of the week. No teaching, no writing, just me and Boy Z free in the world. This was always the plan when we moved to Oz and after six months of hard work, [...]
Canadian Invasion - "Standing on the Shoulders of the Carcass of John Mayer" [3:34m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadA job, well, done.
Yesterday I gave my last lecture for the course I’ve been teaching and finished up the final practical session. It’s all over from a teaching perspective, though a pile of administrative muck and grading is slowly taking over my desk. But the bulk of the actual teaching is done and with that A Free Man [...]
I don’t sell bullets and I don’t sell crack
It’s an excited free man coming to you from the bottom of the globe today. I’ve been racking my brain since my undeserved windfall yesterday to come up with the best use of a year of sponsored free time. I’m leaning towards adding some tools to me personal toolbox. My university isn’t the best academic [...]
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