ear Diary being down yesterday has thrown me off completely, because I (re-)posted yesterday’s entry this morning, which means I’ve been thinking all day that I’d already written a post today, so I haven’t been keeping an eye out for something to write about. So now that I’ve finally remembered that this morning’s post doesn’t…
arvestbird’s writing talent has been recognised with the inclusion of one of her essays in Tell You What: Great New Zealand Nonfiction 2015, which had its Christchurch launch last night. She invited me along to the launch, where she and a few of the other included writers read teasingly short excerpts from their essays. It…
ust had one of those “I love my job” moments. The polytech is running an architecture summer school, and as part of it they’d organised a tour for their students to look around the rebuilt Theatre Royal, an amazing heritage project that reconstructed (almost from the ground up) an Edwardian theatre badly damaged in the…
ent out for drinks after work last night with the rest of the CEISMIC team, to a cafe just off campus. It was a lovely evening, so we sat outside, and it was all very pleasant. So much so that when everyone else started to drift away to gym classes and dates and children’s bedtimes,…
nother stupidly hot day (although apparently it is a couple of degrees cooler than yesterday at least). We’ve got all the windows open in the office (air conditioning? what’s that?) to very little effect, but at least we can take comfort from the fact that we’re cooler than the roofers we can see working on…
he problem with being back at work is that it cuts down on the interesting things to blog about. Not that work isn’t interesting, but a lot of it is the sort of interesting that sounds really boring when you try and describe it, and some is the kind of interesting that I can’t really…
ack at work, and it was definitely a struggle to get up and organised this morning. That’s the trouble with holidays, doing nothing becomes way too much of a routine. But I managed to wake up sufficiently to clean the cat fur off my backpack (apparently Parsnips had been using it for a bed while…
y holiday is almost over, and as usual I didn’t achieve half the things I’d planned to do, but on the other hand, I did achieve a lot of things I didn’t plan to do (like an impromptu trip down to Alexandra) so it all evens out in the end. And after a big burst…
nother Christmas function today (almost the last one for the year) – this one for the College of Arts office staff, which they invited our office to, seeing as they share a corridor with us. As well as a pot-luck lunch, the big event was the announcing of the winners of the Christmas door decorations…
Christmas presents for my workmates. The theory was I’d make something quick and easy that I could produce multiple of in slightly different designs so I wouldn’t have to think about it too much. Except that, as always, I forgot just how much time cross-stitch takes (about an hour per letter, in case you were…