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Certainly not Shirley either I would imagine April 20, 2009

Ok. I’ve just started printing out the draft of my book manuscript. A little bit scarily it now looks like a book. 246 pages, a proper copyright page, nice font etc. I could be sitting by the printer for some time. Now I just have to bring myself to read it, one more time…and fix […]

The Joker is Me April 19, 2009

Yes I know this is one of those hopeless youtube outings that’s a montage of images. But my interest here is the song, which most of us will recognise as the theme song used for Kath and Kim. With my manuscript coming back to check last night I now have a copyright problem if I […]

The Joker is Me

Yes I know this is one of those hopeless youtube outings that’s a montage of images. But my interest here is the song, which most of us will recognise as the theme song used for Kath and Kim. With my manuscript coming back to check last night I now have a copyright problem if I […]

boredom-induced coma or brain explosion: you decide February 11, 2009

I finally finished all the APA punctuation twiddling, the quadruple checking of everything in sight, the last minute spell check, the constant reformatting of the table of contents and plucked up the courage to send the manuscript to the publisher. I am now convinced that I will have done something ridiculous, like spelled my name […]

boredom-induced coma or brain explosion: you decide

I finally finished all the APA punctuation twiddling, the quadruple checking of everything in sight, the last minute spell check, the constant reformatting of the table of contents and plucked up the courage to send the manuscript to the publisher. I am now convinced that I will have done something ridiculous, like spelled my name […]

"yumour people, I’m using yumour" January 28, 2009

It’s taken me a week but I have finally finished checking through all my references in the conversion of the intext format I used in the thesis to the APA style required by the publisher. I don’t want to offend anyone but that American Psychologist Association sure loves their punctuation. Anywhere they can put in […]

“yumour people, I’m using yumour”

It’s taken me a week but I have finally finished checking through all my references in the conversion of the intext format I used in the thesis to the APA style required by the publisher. I don’t want to offend anyone but that American Psychologist Association sure loves their punctuation. Anywhere they can put in […]

a little tip from me to myself January 13, 2009

Here’s an important lesson that I learnt today that I’m sure I will find extremely useful in the future. When you spend the morning working from home and then prepare to go into the office for the afternoon, make sure you take the work you have completed with you. Do not very carefully pack your […]

a little tip from me to myself

Here’s an important lesson that I learnt today that I’m sure I will find extremely useful in the future. When you spend the morning working from home and then prepare to go into the office for the afternoon, make sure you take the work you have completed with you. Do not very carefully pack your […]

What was I thinking?

This: “As the section following this one outlines…” Or this: “As the following section outlines….” What was I thinking? Or not thinking? Awkward turns of phrase everywhere.