n the corner of my lounge is a small bookcase. It’s quite narrow, so I’ve got it on a slight angle, leaving just a small gap behind it (you can see where this is going already, can’t you?). A few minutes ago, I heard a scrabbling sound coming from the lounge… yep, from behind the…
k, so I totally fail at family. I was talking to Dad this morning, and he mentioned that my step-sister had seen me at the Survivor Poetry event last weekend, and had said to pass on her apologies for not saying hello, because she’d been caught up talking to someone else so I’d left before…
spent today at a conference. Well, technically it was an unconference – a THATCamp to be precise, a Digital Humanities event (THAT stands for “Technology And The Humanities”) which is a semi-planned, mostly make it up as you go along, mix of planned and impromptu sessions based around the idea that everyone has something to…
ot as big a deal as 22 February, but 4 September is still a significant date for Christchurch – the day of the 2010 earthquake that was the start of all the chaos and horror to come (GeoNet announced this morning that they’ve recorded 14859 earthquakes in Canterbury since that first one, 4558 of them…
‘ve been getting into a bad habit of eating lunch at my desk lately, so I decided today to escape campus and go out for lunch. Well, technically escape campus – I actually just went to the new cafe that’s opened on Ilam Road, right on the edge of campus. But that’s not actually *on*…
efinitely a springiness in the air today – it’s been a lovely warm day. The days are getting noticeably longer, too – our new office, which didn’t get any sun at all for most of the winter, now gets a burst of bright sunshine each afternoon as the sun peeks between the two neighbouring buildings*…
esterday was another very busy day (one day I really must have a restful weekend…) It started with a mad dash for the bus (after I completely miscalculated times) to get myself over to Heathcote. It’s a long trip by bus, involving a meandering (and bumpy – I always forget how bad the roads still…
It took me most of yesterday and long into the night, but I managed to get most of the embroidery done that I wanted to add to the pink butterfly for my second entry to Tartankiwi’s Butterfly Challenge (and, yes, if you’re wondering Tartankiwi, all that pink is a blatant attempt to win your Rascal’s…
This is what central Christchurch looks like these days – still a mass of cordon fences, road works, half-demolished buildings, and vast open spaces that can feel pretty desolate: On the plus side, there’s cool artwork (official and unofficial), and a lot of the empty demolition sites have been grassed over, which makes some parts…
y potential cold remains at bay, so I decided to use my day off to attend a few writers’ festival events. The first was a talk by psychologist Michael Corballis about his new pop-psychology book The Wandering Mind. It’s based on the idea that letting your mind wander is actually a good thing, because that’s…