So many matters I have to be dealing with or holding in my mind, that I can't seem to be about thinky posts at all.
Anyway, I succeeded in getting through to the shuttle company first thing this morning, and found that the problem last night was actually at their end with phones out, and have succeeded in paying for the shuttle, so that's done.
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Dept of Serendipity: discovered that I had already ironed in my last massive ironing session the two tops one or other of which I intend wearing for giving a paper later this week.
Also, in Dept of Things I Should Have Remembered: the existence of an article I did c. 20 years ago bits of which I can reasonably recycle for A Thing I have been asked ( Read more... )

At the weekend we went to the Tate Modern - where we were underwhelmed by the current Turbine Hall thing.
However - WHY was I not told? I have not seen them there before and didn't even know that they had them - there is a Louise Nevelson room.
When I first saw that there was some Nevelson material in the Materials and Objects section I thought, ( Read more... )

My dearios will know that
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This? I don't even: My house is registered at the Land Registry in my name only. I married my partner in July - now he wants a divorce and I’m worried I’ll lose half the house. I'm - 'this July? barely 4 weeks ago?' - must be, because she acquired the house in November 2015 - and 'how long had they been together before tying the knot?'.
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An email from the editors of a volume in which you have a chapter saying that the external reviewers for the publisher think it's all good and doesn't need more work.
Yay.
Slightly less yay, being asked to step up for a History in the Pub talk with a month's notice.
On the subject of the review I am writing, am currently at the 'walking up and down ( Read more... )

At the Event at which I was doing my thing yestreen, I did not have quite such a large audience as some of the other things on offer, but, boy, they were really engaged, terrifically enthusiastic, and it was more of a seminar than a lecture, and as I hadn't quite got to the end of my material by the formal end (because of the discussions evoked) ( Read more... )

I thought I was getting a cold - yesterday I had that irritable back of throat feeling followed by a not very good night - but this has not particularly developed. I'm not sure it's entirely gone but it does seem to have receded somewhat.
Just over a week to go at work, and I do feel that I am more or less getting on top of the various things I had ( Read more... )

At least, today my mood seems rather better than it has been wont of late.
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I do not even have to go about the woodlands to see the cherry hung with snow: looking out of the back window gives a splendid view of one in the pocket park, going 'Loveliest of trees? Mr Housman, you were so right, look at me!'
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Had a lovely meetup with
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Have some ye trad early Jan grouchies!
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I put it to you, my dearios, that if you are contacting a scholar about your postdoc work within their field, it might be rather a good idea to take a look at some of their copious scholarship in the area of your topic. This would save you from annoying them with a postdoc project proposal based on outworn ( Read more... )