ou want to hear my latest excuse for not having posted here for ages? This time it’s not me that’s been sick (or the DearDiary site), but my computer. I discovered a nasty malware infection on it, and as removing it looked like it was going to be a long and involved process (it was…
ometimes working at the university has its definite perks. Like today when I got to go to a fascinating lecture being given by Alison Griffith of the Classics department on the history of writing, illustrated with objects from the Logie Collection, like Sumerian cuneiform tablets, Egyptian mummy wrappings, and Roman memorial stones. Really interesting stuff,…
t was definitely a weekend for social activism. I spent yesterday afternoon with Harvestbird at a seminar titled “How to be a Feminist”. The first hour of the seminar was live-streamed from Sydney, where a panel of notable feminist figures such as Anita Sarkeesian, Roxane Gay and Germaine Greer were talking about what feminism means…
uite apart from the whole winning an award thing, yesterday was really interesting. For a start, I got to go and visit (and even better, take some photographs of) the Canterbury Cultural Collections Recovery Centre. The CCCRC is an amazing place – it’s a giant climate-controlled hangar that stores all the material from the various…
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…
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…
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…
ll of a sudden, August is almost over, which means in a couple of days it’ll be officially Spring. And, more importantly, it means I’ve only got a couple of days to finish my second butterfly, because the deadline for challenge entries is on Sunday night. I haven’t really had any time to work on…
seem to have drastically expanded my social circles all of a sudden, joining two new groups in the space of just a couple of weeks. For a start, I’m now officially a Christchurch Blogger. I’m even on their list of blogs! And there’s like an official-type button I’m supposed to put on my diary somewhere…
Got a surprise on the way home last night – I was walking across the campus when l heard someone call my name. The person talking to me looked familiar, but I couldn’t quite place him. But then, I met a lot of people while I was doing union work, so I’m used to people…