May 2007 - Posts

Strangely Enough, I'm In The Zone
30 May 07 05:07 PM

'The Zone' - for me - is that semi-mythical space where sentences move from your brain through your fingers and onto the keyboard. It's where thesis work actually happens, where at the end of the day you can stop and look at the x number of words or pages Read More...

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Filed under: one word after another, writings

Heading Towards the Light...
29 May 07 12:43 PM

I've been heading towards the light (ie, completing various tasks that having been taking over my life) for the last few weeks - hence my virtual silence and in-person whining. I like the 'light' metaphor, not only because it insinuates the semi-comatose Read More...

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Filed under: if you call that a life, balance, finishing line?, marking, ac(k!)ademia

Open Letter to My Brain
23 May 07 09:58 AM

Dear Brain, I'd really prefer if you didn't wake me up at 5pm in the morning to come up with lesson plans for the next day's tutorial. But if you must, would you mind actually holding onto the plan you come up with? I can tell you that staring at a page Read More...

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Filed under: frivolity, teaching

Tutorials (the MasterCard version)
18 May 07 10:14 AM

Reading the text for the week: 3 hours Listening to the lectures: 2 hours Tutorial planning: half an hour Watching students scramble to cover up the fact that they have done none of the above: Priceless. Read More...

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Filed under: teaching

Communities of Research
15 May 07 10:54 AM

I'm always fascinated by acknowledgement sections, in books and in theses, as a textual trace of the narratives and experiences underlying the formal, often disembodied, academic writing following that introduction. Seeing the acknowledgements section Read More...

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Filed under: ac(k!)ademia, writings

not!Key Lime Pie
07 May 07 05:55 PM

What do you do if you have a surplus of limes lying around the house? This is obviously one of the great existential questions in life, which I was forced to confront this weekend after I got suckered into the on-sale limes from the fuit and vege shop Read More...

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Filed under: frivolity, mondays, recipe

Limina Conference: 25 May
02 May 07 04:11 PM

Warning: Gratuitous Hijacking of myresearchspace for advertising purposes. Limina presents a conference titled 'Strange Attractors: Unpredictable Combinations in Historical and Cultural Contexts' on Friday 25 May. It's a one day conference held at the Read More...

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