2016 was an interesting year. For me it was of course dominated by my thesis – I basically spent the whole year in hibernation, working 50+ hour, 6-day weeks juggling a full-time job and part-time study. Of course, I did take a month off for Greece and Italy, which was pretty cool (and I promise…
Yes, I’m a month late doing the year-end wrap-up things, but I was way too busy in early January so didn’t have time to do them then. And I like doing the annual summaries, so even though they’re late, I’m going to post them anyway. I didn’t do a lot of reading last year (well,…
(Only slightly belatedly) January: February: March: April: May: June: July: August: September: Don’t be silly, I wasn’t taking photos, I had deadlines! October: November: December: So the year started and ended with family. And despite feeling like I was too busy to do anything this year, I actually packed in quite a lot. Onwards to…
2015 is hard to summarise. I learnt a lot, I took on some huge new challenges, but mostly it’s just been incredibly busy, and has raced past in a blur. So rather than try and write anything meaningful about it, I’ll use my usual trick of recycling bits of blog entries 🙂 So, 2015 in…
It was the boys’ turn to claim their Christmas adventure today, so Dad offered to drive us up to Queenstown. Queenstown is *the* place to be for New Year’s, so the town was totally packed (yeah, probably should have thought of that before we picked today to go up there…), and we had to queue…
t’s been a very social weekend. Actually, more than just the weekend, because on Friday the CEISMIC team spent the day at the NDF Bar Camp, an “unconference” to discuss digital issues in the cultural heritage sector. Lots of exciting conversations and ideas, and seriously inspiring. Tiring though, in that way of an event where…
In my 2013 in review post, I wrote “…instead of hoping that next year is a better one, I’m going to say that I’m going to make sure that next year I continue to make my life what I want it to be, and that I’ll keep surrounding myself with what gives me joy.” And…
For the first time since I started keeping these reading lists, I dipped below 100 books read this year – my total was only 93. I suspect the main reason for that is that I got out of habit of reading for pleasure in the first half of the year, when I was reading so…
It’s 2015 here in New Zealand, even if most of the rest of the world is still to catch up, and has dawned a lovely sunny day after yesterday’s rain. I reckon that augurs great things for the year – and even if it doesn’t, I fully intend to have a good year anyway 🙂 …
ickens had it right: it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It seems like every year lately I’ve summed up the year as being full of horrible stuff interspersed with some pretty good stuff, and expressed the hope that next year can only get better. And yep, once again there’s…