Protected: How to close a university

I’m really not doing well at keeping my diary up to date, am I? I just don’t seem to have had the time or energy lately… or possibly it’s just that I keep getting distracted by other things. Anyway, been a busy week or so. The end of the year is fast approaching, which signals…

A few cool recent catches, all destined for exciting further travel: Gravity by Tess Gerritsen: a second anonymous finder catch, possibly by the same finder as the first one (it’s a bit hard to tell from the journal entries), but it’s now in Washington. Duncton Wood by William Horwood: released in Wellington in November, and…

This bit’s friends only, because it contains a bit too much identifying information. One of the reasons I’ve been too busy to post anything lately is that all my good intentions of not taking on anything extra this year, and of just having a quiet life and looking after myself, kind of collapsed when I…

I walked home via Jellie Park tonight. It has its picturesque areas: and not so picturesque: In other news, I think I’m getting a cold 🙁

After a couple of miserable days of rain (one of which I spent sitting in my office with damp feet because the @#$% of a bus-driver stopped the bus in such a position that I could only get on by wading through a huge puddle), the sun finally came out today, so I decided to…