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| just a little tweeting every so often | June 15, 2010 | This is my first officially sanctioned working from day. How exciting. I have delighted in the lack of phone calls, email tinging, people arriving at my office door unexpectedly and so on. I have also delighted in the amount of work I got through this morning…some things had been sitting waiting for a spare moment […] |
| they are not one and the same | June 4, 2010 | What did I achieve this week?1. Moved office. Knick knacks are now all in place. Everything tidied and put away.2. Finally after months of trying to get to it I sent out some letters for the local oral history project Anne and I are in the middle of. When I say “in the middle of” […] |
| they are not one and the same | What did I achieve this week?1. Moved office. Knick knacks are now all in place. Everything tidied and put away.2. Finally after months of trying to get to it I sent out some letters for the local oral history project Anne and I are in the middle of. When I say “in the middle of” […] |
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| A distinct lack of trumpet fanfare | June 1, 2010 | Well today finally the first of June arrived. It was a lovely day weather wise, although distinctly underwhelming in many other ways. There were the usual pernickety emails, the students – prospective, past and current – wanting various forms of assistance. For Day One of the Research Fellowship there was no trumpet fanfare, procession, cake, […] |
| A distinct lack of trumpet fanfare | Well today finally the first of June arrived. It was a lovely day weather wise, although distinctly underwhelming in many other ways. There were the usual pernickety emails, the students – prospective, past and current – wanting various forms of assistance. For Day One of the Research Fellowship there was no trumpet fanfare, procession, cake, […] |
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| I just don’t know what to do with myself | May 28, 2010 | Like the song says, I am feeling at a bit of a loose end. The teaching term finished this afternoon. Not a moment too soon I hear myself say. I am a leetle weary and jaded, happy to see our students finish the program, already planning for the new classes starting in Term 2. I […] |
| I just don’t know what to do with myself | Like the song says, I am feeling at a bit of a loose end. The teaching term finished this afternoon. Not a moment too soon I hear myself say. I am a leetle weary and jaded, happy to see our students finish the program, already planning for the new classes starting in Term 2. I […] |
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| "If you watch a lot of TV you’re not considered well-viewed" | April 13, 2010 | So our shiny new Vice Chancellor decreed that there should be a celebration of research at our not so shiny and new university. He also decreed that it should take place this week. Last night the Bundaberg campus held its event, an evening of 5 minute talks by researchers for the community and students to […] |
| “If you watch a lot of TV you’re not considered well-viewed” | So our shiny new Vice Chancellor decreed that there should be a celebration of research at our not so shiny and new university. He also decreed that it should take place this week. Last night the Bundaberg campus held its event, an evening of 5 minute talks by researchers for the community and students to […] |
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| Due January 2010 | January 21, 2010 | Last August or so I blithely whacked together an abstract for a local journal run from the uni here. The issue is about supporting postgraduate students so I wrote an abstract entitled “Scribbling in the Margins: Negotiating the tensions and challenges of the regional research student”. The due date for the paper was the end […] |