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| “all our operators are busy at the moment” | January 9, 2009 | In spite of my very best efforts to procrastinate again today (coffee, morning tea, lunch,twitter, facebook, listening to the radio), there has been some progress in the “writing of the book from the thesis department”. (note: this is not a real government department, however it does exist for real in my mind. Although…..it is frequently […] |
| when is procrastinating not procrastinating? | January 8, 2009 | Answer: when you’re doing something vaguely connected to the task you had actually planned to do for the day. Today, as you might see from my twitter update was to be “return to book day”. And I did do this for some time, looking back through the introduction. It’s okay at the moment. The conclusion […] |
| when is procrastinating not procrastinating? | Answer: when you’re doing something vaguely connected to the task you had actually planned to do for the day. Today, as you might see from my twitter update was to be “return to book day”. And I did do this for some time, looking back through the introduction. It’s okay at the moment. The conclusion […] |
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| An encouraging "no" | January 2, 2009 | Just received a very encouraging “no” to my Arrested Development paper that I had sent to The Velvet Light Trap. That’s okay. Until a week or so ago, I had actually forgotten I sent it. And unlike some journals they took the time to give some very useful, lengthy constructive criticism, praising some aspects of […] |
| An encouraging “no” | Just received a very encouraging “no” to my Arrested Development paper that I had sent to The Velvet Light Trap. That’s okay. Until a week or so ago, I had actually forgotten I sent it. And unlike some journals they took the time to give some very useful, lengthy constructive criticism, praising some aspects of […] |
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| fear not (as if) | December 10, 2008 | It’s been a little while since I posted an update on the book. Fear not, good people, this does not mean there has been no progress. In fact I managed to stick to my thirty or so pages a day in editing and actually finished getting through the whole thing yesterday. As with all writing, […] |
| fear not (as if) | It’s been a little while since I posted an update on the book. Fear not, good people, this does not mean there has been no progress. In fact I managed to stick to my thirty or so pages a day in editing and actually finished getting through the whole thing yesterday. As with all writing, […] |
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| This was my exciting morning | December 3, 2008 | Disclaimer; Many people who read this will not think it’s exciting.It’s funny how things in life connect. When I left school I went to USQ in Toowoomba and completed a music degree majoring in piano. There I met and was good friends with a double bass player called Murray Gay who had come from Hervey […] |
| This was my exciting morning | Disclaimer; Many people who read this will not think it’s exciting.It’s funny how things in life connect. When I left school I went to USQ in Toowoomba and completed a music degree majoring in piano. There I met and was good friends with a double bass player called Murray Gay who had come from Hervey […] |
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| Making plans and doing the sums | November 21, 2008 | I have been doing some sums this morning. If I am going on official holidays on December 15th this means I have about three weeks to get through my book edits once more if I am to holiday without it hanging over my head. So if I have about three hundred pages still to get […] |