um went home yesterday. It’s weird to have an empty house again (but also nice – not that I didn’t enjoy her company, of course, and she’s the least imposing house guest ever, but I do like having the place to myself). Parsnips is not impressed at the sudden lack of knitting needles to play…
his year is seriously racing past. It’s the end of the academic year tomorrow, and already murmurs about Christmas parties are arising from various quarters – where did the year go??? I’m sure it was only a couple of weeks ago that I finished studying myself, but a whole semester has gone past since then!…
ēnā koutou katoa, Ko Kopuwai te maunga, Ko Mata-au te awa, Ko Ngāti Pākehā te iwi, Ko MacMillan te hapū, Nō Ōtākou au, Kei Ōtautahi ahau e noho ana, He CEISMIC Production Coordinator taku mahi, Ko FutureCat taku ingoa, Nā reira, tēnā koutou katoa. Greetings to you all, Kopuwai (the Old Man Range in Central…
ur team spent the day out at Kaiapoi, at the Tuahiwi Marae, learning about the history of the Ngāi Tūāhuriri hapū and a bit of tikanga Māori. As it was being held on a marae, we started off with a pōwhiri, then after morning tea we broke into groups to learn how to put together…
o the cake surprise didn’t exactly didn’t go to plan. For a start, we forgot that Lucy-Jane was working off-campus with one of our content providers this morning. So there we were busy plotting how to get her out of the office for a few minutes at the end of our Monday morning meeting so…
idn’t get round to grouting the mosaic today after all – when I read the instructions properly and saw the bit about having to clean the tiles 12 hours after you grout them, I decided to leave it until next weekend when I could actually manage that without having to get up early tomorrow morning…
EISMIC has been shortlisted for the NZ Open Source Awards, so we’ve been invited to the awards dinner in Wellington. None of the bosses are available to go, so today they asked if I’d like to go in their place, and take one of the team with me. So I get to go to a fancy…
etzirah said, in response to my anxieties about the community archiving course, “All you have to do is ask a few questions and let people talk. They will. You learn. Win win!” And she was absolutely right. I spent the first couple of hours just listening, then I started asking questions, and was rewarded with…
ery weird dream last night. I was walking with a group of people (no idea who, but it seemed very important to me that I impress them). They were talking about how wooden spoons are made, and that it’s necessary to heat-temper the wood that’s used to make them (yes, I know that makes no…
eading back through my blog posts today to pick out the earthquake-related ones was more affecting than I expected. Even though I spending my working days looking at photographs and reading peoples’ memories from the quakes, I’d forgotten just how scary they were. I think because I wasn’t hugely affected by them in any material…