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| TWO WHOLE DAYS | December 5, 2011 | I interrupt this regularly scheduled Christmas Countdown to bring you some exciting news. I am on two days leave. That’s right. TWO WHOLE DAYS in the middle of the week no less. It’s scandalous really. After working the whole weekend, I was still recovering from my tired and cranky of last week so in a […] |
| of dissatisfaction and acronyms | November 28, 2011 | We are all still awaiting the appearance of our FCP (Final Change Proposal) for the new SEP (Single Enabling Program). In the meantime CaC (Campus Coordinators) continue to interview prospective students for next year even though in reality the CaCs may not be the Access Coordinators (ACs) in the brave new world of the SEP. […] |
| music, fruit and veges | November 16, 2011 | My working life is an endless whirl of meetings at the moment. Meetings in person. Meetings on the phone. Skype and videoconferencing meetings. Why so many meetings? We are coming to the tail end of a VERY long restructure process that has been going on for years. At least, I hope we are getting to […] |
| I looked at the sea | November 6, 2011 | Well my friends that was a very nice Sunday indeed. Here’s what happened. I had a little sleep in. I got up and ate my breakfast at a leisurely pace and enjoyed my green vanilla tea. I did my meditation. I did some exercise on the Wii. I ignored the fact that the Wii was […] |
| me…playing the piano | October 13, 2011 | It’s been a little while since my last post (she writes as she hangs her head in shame). I’d like to say I’d been on a lovely, relaxing holiday travelling here, there and everywhere without a care in the world. Not so, my friends, not so. I’ve been finishing off the teaching term here at […] |
| me…playing the piano | It’s been a little while since my last post (she writes as she hangs her head in shame). I’d like to say I’d been on a lovely, relaxing holiday travelling here, there and everywhere without a care in the world. Not so, my friends, not so. I’ve been finishing off the teaching term here at […] |
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| buying shoes on the internet | September 2, 2011 | The last few weeks have been busy busy busy and the next few will be as well. Fear not dear Spiralling Shape readers, this has not prevented me from buying shoes on the internet. Oh yes. You heard me correctly. I did it once and I may well do it again. Living in a shoe-buying […] |
| Easter in August | August 13, 2011 | They have Christmas in July so why not Easter in August? At least that’s what my mother decided when she found the Easter present she had bought me earlier in the year while she was cleaning out her patchwork material. So as I was leaving their house last night after some yummy dinner we wished […] |
| free shirt and cap | I am up bright and early for a Sunday morning. This is because some weeks ago I blithely agreed to “man” a stand at our campus Open Day. That day is today. As you might imagine now the day has arrived I am less enthused. So now I have to shower and dress in my […] |
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| holidays: I’m doing them wrong | August 12, 2011 | So this week I have officially been on holidays. All that really means is that I didn’t go into work (except for Tuesday and Thursday for an hour each time). Unofficially, I have been answering work emails, putting out little work fires, responding to questions from students, looking at drafts of their first assessments, taking […] |