Liz Lemon, that's who:


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This is my new username - same journal, same random content.

Here's a pretty picture of a field of wheat:


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One of the 'journalists' on the left hand side of this photo had the gall to ask Bruce and Denise Morcombe if they were 'prepared for the fact that not all of the bones (of their deceased son, missing for 8 years) would be found'. Mrs Morcombes reaction was pure disgust, as expected. Nice job people. A credit to your profession...

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This here blog has been in my name for a rather long time, and while I have largely enjoyed the process, it is pretty obvious I am not posting with the regularity I once was. Not for the first time I have considered packing up shop and trying something different somewhere else. In the interim, I'll be renaming the blog and starting afresh under a ( Read more... )

Its Break Week this week in the world of academia, and I for one am exhaustipated.

Some astute eagle-eyed viewers may have noted my absence from these pages for a good month, and let me tell you, it has been a good month of busyness and business, and of making some decisions and starting some new projects and of being away and coming back, which is ( Read more... )

• What is your occupation? Academic. Tension-reliever in meetings (Bad puns and Jokes division). The Friend who is loyal and generous to a fault ( Read more... )

How many do you have?

So recently (as in, a few days ago) I joined one of these movements: not-political, not-partisan, non-judgemental...


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Took myself with my big warm coat and hopped on a jaunty flight to Sydneyville, a little town down South. Stayed at a very clean and reasonable Y and enjoyed wandering the Park in the morning, although it was not nearly as cold as it was expected to be. The conference itself was some kind of executive-level talkfest, where I felt quite out of place ( Read more... )