Well, it has been a little while, hasn’t it? I sort of had a spell of blog fatigue there coupled with a spurt of seasonal affective social networking withdrawal, but really I’ve just been too busy. Yeah, yeah, everyone’s busy but for those few loyal readers/family members here’s a litany of excuses:
I have a new [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Just when I thought I was out…
Why can’t life be straightforward? Why can’t it be what I perceive it to be – a gently upward sloping line?
I swear that this isn’t turning into a blog about my jobs. But I feel as if I’ve dragged a lot of you along with me on this melodramatic [...]
I decided not to quit.
Yet.
I’m writing this at work (screw ‘em), and there are still a couple of hours before I leave for the day, so things could change yet. Basically if the upper management leave me alone today – let me listen to Coltrane and get on with my work - I’ll make it [...]
Since we’re all friends around here – unless you’ve been culled, in which case go away – I’m going to ask you, my gentle readers, for some advice.
Many of you know that I work two jobs. Nearly a year ago, a couple of months after our arrival in Australia, I took a part time job [...]
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 [...]
Well, this week kind of got away from me. Add moving house and a continued lack of internet at home; multiply by the normal amount of day-to-day crap and what you get is one blog post a week apparently. The lack of home internet thing is the biggest factor, I tend to read and write [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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