ot that I’d ever complain, but we get a ridiculous amount of annual leave. Five weeks a year, plus an extra four days at Christmas (on top of the statutory holidays), and another day at Easter. So effectively six weeks of holiday a year. Which is seriously cool, but also sometimes difficult to actually use…
very few weeks at work someone in the office will declare it time for a cake run, and one of us will run down to the cafe for a selection of cakes and slices. Such a need arose this morning, so I duly undertook the cake run and we had a morning-tea break enhanced by…
pring is still a month or two away, but it was making its eventual presence known today with blue skies and a lovely warm nor’wester (this is the only time of year when anyone in Christchurch would ever describe a nor’wester as “lovely”!!). It was rumoured to have reached 20 degrees mid-afternoon – we certainly…
ig excitement at work today was a visit from the Mayor. She’d been invited by one of our directors to learn more about the archive and what we’re doing, especially as we’ve been working with the City Council on a few projects. Of course, as soon as senior management heard she was going to be…
‘m feeling pretty proud of myself – I actually managed to write a little javascript app that works! Doesn’t do anything particularly useful, but that can come later 🙂 The more important thing is, it won me a challenge set by one of my workmates. Because we’re all at different levels of ability as far…
arvestbird taught me a new word at lunch today, “Nokay”. It was invented by one of the mini-Harvestbirds, and apparently it means “No, I’m not going to do what you want me to, but I’m going to be really sweet and polite about it so you don’t realise I’m actually being defiant”. Harvestbird reports that…
ne of the (many) things I really love about my job is the cool people I get to meet. Yesterday afternoon, for example, I had a meeting with Julia Holden, the artist who painted the Wish You Were Here series of billboards that were displayed in Auckland, and now Wellington. She was telling us about the…
y birthday party baking went really well – the bread dough rose and baked up beautifully, the cake and eclairs were suitably chocolatey and decadent (even if I did slightly mess up the icing on the eclairs by getting a little bit too experimental and forgetting that adding orange zest to give it an interesting…
So much for autumn, we seem to have skipped straight to winter. We’ve had three days now of gales, heavy rain, and the occasional flurry of sleet and hail. Half the city is flooded, there’s trees down all over the place, and it’s generally cold and wet and miserable. My garden is like a lake,…
eing an archive for the Canterbury earthquakes means 22 February is a big day for us at work. It fell on a Saturday this year, but that just meant we had one less day to prepare, because we had to have a major collection ready for launch on the 21st instead. And of course, the…