A Friday random five
Dept of Nature Notes Hello Birds Hello Trees: today I saw a whopping great dragonfly when I was walking around the playing field. This goes with the pied wagtails as, shouldn't you be hanging around a pond or stream rather than the waterless playing field.
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Dept of Annoyance du jour: earlier in the week I had 2, count 'em, 2 cards through the door saying that postman could not deliver items because insufficient postage. I assumed that this was probably the Very Heavy 2 Volume Rare Art Book for partner's birthday that was coming from Abroad, and when paying online, set the desired delivery date to yesterday. No delivery. Arrived today and turned out to be two copies of the same publication of a Good Cause I lately contributed to, and which I didn't particularly want even one copy of. Being a Good Cause is no excuse for this kind of thing.
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Dept of Tactful Evasion: was invited, during the week, in email so I had time to formulate my response, to join the editorial board for an encyclopaedic project within my general sphere of activity, which, on reading the solicitation in details, looked as if it was going to be hard work rather than a honorary position. Also my current research interests are in a different area. I feel it was positively legitimate to say that I thought that a Younger Scholar, currently active in field, would be a better fit, and even managed to think of specific individuals.
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Dept of Distraction: the couple I am doing an ODNB entry on are kind of evasive, however I keep turning up absolutely fascinating contextual stuff which lures me.
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Dept of Hi, I am Living History! I suppose I should go and volunteer to be interviewed for this: My PhD project explores the lives of working-class women who attended higher education in the decade between 1965 and 1975. This entry was originally posted at http://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2482270.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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