One of my colleagues came across a job advert at the other university in my fair city and passed it to me. Her intention was to give me a bit of a boost by reminding me that there is a whole world out there. But the more I've thought about it, the more I want to apply ( Read more... )

So, I've passed the 35k mark, a day ahead of schedule from Nano's point of view but I should have passed 40k today if I'd kept to my own 2k-a-day schedule. Still, I'm really not beating myeself up about it. The words are flowing fairly well and the characters and story still feel right. The order of the events in the story needs some serious ( Read more... )

My word total is 20,997 - I may manage another 1k, later tonight. I'm behind (oh, so far behind) my personal target but I'm about on par with Nano and can definitely make the 50k. I may spend this week getting up early again, though, to get that extra 1k in before work. I managed it the first week and it didn't kill me (quite ( Read more... )

Just back from two days in Reading learning about some new functionality that the University's software provider is going to be providing for our student records system. It looks really, really good ( Read more... )