o, not mine – that’s a couple of years off yet. But I did take part in the ceremony today. There’s a tradition that the general staff (i.e. non-academics) can volunteer to help out at graduation doing things like ushering parents to their seats, or helping the marshalls organise the students. Or, as I was…
e’re trialling a new scheme at work to have volunteers come in and help out with the archive. I’m running the project (which is exciting and scary at the same time – it could turn into something really big if we do it right), so I’ve been casting around for a first volunteer to test…
he parade of end-of-year functions continues, with our team going out for lunch today. Yes, I know we already had a Christmas party last week, but this was our “official” Christmas function, with our boss shouting us lunch. It was a very nice lunch, in a new cafe that’s opened up recently near campus, and…
ell, I managed to get through yesterday and even made it to the party in the evening (which was a lot of fun – it featured giant jenga on the lawn, and a poetry recitation by the boss), but I’m paying for it today – I don’t feel all that unwell, but I’m exhausted, in…
‘m trying very hard to ignore the headachey sniffliness which has been creeping up on me since yesterday afternoon, because I absolutely don’t have time to have a cold at the moment. We’ve got our office Christmas party tonight, and there’s a tonne of stuff I want to get done this weekend, and three more…
Phase 2 complete: (Photos taken by Lucy-Jane) Yes, the lights do flash on and off.
here’s a competition going on along our corridor to decorate your office door for Christmas. So our team have decided to go all-out to try and beat the College Office staff. Phase one of our plan was Lucy-Jane zipping down to Lincraft at lunchtime yesterday to buy a length of calico and some dark green…
oor Parsnips got in a fight last night, and I suspect got the worst of it, because she was looking pretty sorry for herself. Lots of tufts of fur sticking out all over, and definitely a few tender spots she wouldn’t let me touch. She was looking a bit happier when I left for work…
It’s Secret Santa season, and I’m determined not to resort to junk from the Warehouse to fulfill the under-$10 requirement for any of them. Which means I’ve got a lot of crafting deadlines in my near future. But I’m making good progress. I’m almost finished making my gift for the Christchurch Bloggers Secret Santa, and…
pent today doing more work on that bibliography, mostly trying to establish whether authors with similar names are actually the same person. A task not at all helped by the fact that every journal has their own house style for authors’ names, with the added complication of the odd misspelling. So Bob Smith can be…