I'm home, and it's nearly Christmas!

I've had an awesome final week. Work has been quiet as all the students and academics have disappeared, leaving us with three boxes of biscuits, two boxes of chocolates and a pannetonne in our office to celebrate. The peace and quiet has allowed all of us to get a lot of work done which we're all grateful for. ( Read more... )

Well, this is a busy and tiring time of year isn't it? The past week has seemed so long, but at the same time not nearly long enough to fit in all the things that need doing before Christmas.

Last Monday I was involved in filming scenarios for a training course that I'm taking in January. It was a lot of fun, but I'm nervous about seeing the ( Read more... )

This is a semi-hiatus announcement, as James' laptop broke last week and doesn't seem to be fixable, so we have no way to access the internet at home and I can only check my emails intermittently at work at the moment unless I stay late.

However, I was planning on buying myself a new laptop after my birthday anyway, so after visiting the Currys ( Read more... )

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 Last month, at our admin away day, I did a presentation on my role for my fellow administrators.  And it was so well received that I was asked to do it again at this month's School Board meeting, which includes academic staff, to make them more aware of the conference support I can offer.  That meeting was today.

I made a new presentation - shorter ( Read more... )

The heating is off in our building today. We're trying to work out how cold it has to get before we can go home. As the office is almost empty right now as most of our colleagues are in a meeting, Emma and I had a five-minute jog on the spot to warm us up. I think lots of hot drinks will be in order today too ( Read more... )

Things I didn't mention yesterday due to irritation ( Read more... )

I'm so close to my holiday now I can almost touch it, but the world is conspiring against me to make my last few days so much harder than they need to be. I'd like to be effortlessly daydreaming of Icelandic vistas and glaciers, but instead I keep forgetting I'm going TOMORROW because of all the external gremlins taking my attention away ( Read more... )

Yesterday in work we celebrated our co-worker's 25 years of long service. He's worked for the university since he was nineteen - imagine that. We had some nibbles, and some wine, and played music from 1985 as that's when he started. We also revisited the endlessly amusing story of how two weeks after Karl started at the university, Dan was born ( Read more... )

The rest of the Pride weekend was excellent, although I did not partake in any late nights or even any alcohol as I really don't like spending a fortune on drinks and I like my sleep. Plus, the weekend is very important to a lot of people and I am very aware that it's just a lot of fun for me and if I hadn't been involved through line dancing I ( Read more... )