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Last night I finally managed to finish making release notes and/or journal entries on all the books I released in Dunedin. It’s taken me a while, but given that I wild released 79 books on the trip, plus controlled released (i.e. gave directly to another bookcrosser) about another 30, and most of them had photos…
Le Clan de L'Ours des Cavernes
It occurred to me as I was walking home last night that I haven’t done any ordinary book-releasing for ages. I’ve done mass releases, and release expeditions – loads of those special types of releases, but none of the spontaneous, happen to have a book in your bag and walk past a good spot, everyday…
The best laid plans…
…tend to gang agley due to the lure of a lazy weekend, or they do in my life, anyway. I had all these good intentions of spending the weekend working on my linguistics essay, preparing Wednesday’s ESOL lesson so I don’t have to do it at the last minute, testing out my new secret super-powers…
Not many sleeps now…
This week seems to be dragging interminably already, and it’s only just started (of course, when I remember the deadline I’ve got on Thursday for a Historical Linguistics assignment which I’ve only half-finished, it seems to be racing past!) It is getting very exciting, though. Every day envelopes are arriving in my letterbox with registration…
A perfect lesson
Many moons ago, when I was at teacher’s college, we were taught to write lesson plans, and given the theory of what makes a good lesson. Of course, once I graduated and got into a real classroom, like every teacher I rapidly gave up on writing the lesson plans, partly through lack of time, and…
Chick Flicks
I got some really interesting responses to yesterday’s entry – maybe I should be philosophical more often… However this entry is not going to be at all philosophical. Instead, it’s going to feature movies and chocolate 🙂 “Chick Flicks” had its inaugural movie night last night. We went to see Mad Hot Ballroom, which is…