April 2007 - Posts

Broccoli and Blue Cheese Soup
30 April 07 10:43 AM
Monday recipies are back! And now that the weather is cooling down, it's the perfect time for soup. Broccoli and Blue Cheese Soup (warning: if anyone in your house doesn't like these ingredients, wait till they are out for the evening, as the house will Read More...
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Lecturing: Reflections
27 April 07 11:20 AM
I've given two lectures recently (Thursday last week, Tuesday this week) and was struck by the way my approach to lecture preparation has altered over time. Way back in the beginning (all of three years ago), lecture preparation meant anxiety, over-investment Read More...
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Signs of Autumn
24 April 07 09:10 AM
It must be autumn... The northern suburbs are eveloped in a haze of wood smoke - rather pretty, but still alarming when you wake up to the smell of smoke (call me paranoid, but it is reassuring to go to sleep with your laptop in the same room so you can Read More...
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monday music selection
23 April 07 05:06 PM
This morning I opened up iTunes and pressed play on Mermaid Avenue (Billy Bragg and Wilco). Over the day, Bing Crosby (skipped quickly), Bob Dylan, Bon Jovi, Carus and the True Believers, the Buffy Musical, Cat Empire, Chris Isaak, and (at the moment) Read More...
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The Art of Annual Report Writing
23 April 07 10:25 AM
This weekend I've been working on my annual report. The good thing about this being my fourth one is that I have a fairly good handle on the forms and the process by now: I've copied the research codes over from 2006, sorted through my to-file pile for Read More...
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(un)Anniversary
20 April 07 02:00 PM
Jumping on the bandwagon with everyone else, I should note that this weekend I'll be writing up my fourth annual report. Somewhere this year I slipped from being one of those people that finishes vaguely on time to one of the people that have been around Read More...
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Leave the commas alone!
04 April 07 02:16 PM
Yes, it is that time of semester - round one of marking. And while I've come across the usual range of problems - from the inability to write a complete sentence, to not-Earth logic that makes my head hurt, and footnotes and in-text referencing in the Read More...
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Random Bullets of Mondayness
02 April 07 02:00 PM
My dog decided to do a reverse re-enactment of the standard WWII POW drama last night: he dug his way into the vegetable garden under the fence, then spent hours barking because he couldn't figure out how to get out. I found this out at 3ish in the morning. Read More...
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