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Teaching Week - no, Month - no, don't we do that all the time?
06 May 08 12:56 PM
This is my attempt at live-blogging Teaching Month, which I keep referring to as Teaching Week and is actually two and a half weeks of events, so the term 'month' is loose to start with. I'm at the Vice-Chancellor's Invitational Lecture - I hadn't originally Read More...
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Passing! and the ambiguities...
29 April 08 03:29 PM
My thesis examination results (and examiners comments) arrived - to me - today. It was a pass with minor revisions. While this is very exciting, and worth celebrating (which I fully intend to do later this afternoon after I've been a good disciplinary Read More...
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Red Lentil Soup
31 March 08 04:02 PM
In further proof that Mondays are my day for attempting maintain delusions about myself as simultaneously domestic goddess and organised and enthusiastic member of the university community I've started up a soup club for Monday lunchtimes. For those of Read More...
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Public Service Announcement: Endnote classes
20 March 08 10:58 AM
In this I speak as someone who migrated to Endnote part-way through my thesis, and mostly taught myself how to use it: get Endnote for the start, and learn how to use it effectively! The HSS Library offers an introductory class on using EndNote software Read More...
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Free-range Academia
18 March 08 02:57 PM
It's Tuesday, and that means it's my day to be a free-range academic. (The condition of having an office of my own was giving it up for tutor consultations one day per week). But I'm not only free-range in terms of physical location at the moment, I also Read More...
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Cooking with(out) the Machines
26 February 08 05:14 PM
There's a phrase in Allucquere Rosanne Stone's The war of desire and technology at the close of the mechanical age that has kept popping into my head lately: 'The machines are restless tonight'. Stone goes on to think through the implications for how Read More...
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Planning Ahead: Marinated Feta and Roast Pumpkin Salad
18 February 08 06:26 PM
Just a quick recipe before I head home to cook dinner. Part of my resolutions for this semester is bringing healthy lunches to uni, which I generally suck at unless it's leftovers. However, planning ahead to make salad is another option, slightly complicated Read More...
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Bruscetta: slack summer food option
11 February 08 05:48 PM
Bruscetta is my favorite summer food. It's perfect on days when it's too hot to bother cooking, and you need something flavorful to tempt you into eating. Recipe: Chop up tomatoes into small cubes. I prefer roma tomatoes, just on the edge of over-ripe, Read More...
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In andOver (not over and out)
07 February 08 02:24 PM
Just over one week ago, I submitted my thesis for examination. The last month was a final flurry of filling up the gaps in writing, clarifying the expression, smoothing out the argument into (hopeful) coherency, and the endless finnicking of reference Read More...
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Reasons I hate revisions, number 57
04 January 08 02:56 PM
I had to delete 'evil Atlanteans had much more straightforward plans for world domination'. And they did, goddammit. And I had the footnote to prove it. Read More...
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Thesis Out-takes
10 December 07 09:34 AM
Writing a thesis is often as much about deciding what goes out as well as what goes in. One frame for deciding what goes in is to divide up your material into three categories: things that are 1) imperative, 2) good or 3) nice for your reader to know. Read More...
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Conference Papers: the Theatrical Version
29 November 07 02:53 PM
Some very good advice on presentations: In short, make your presentations a little more like a play or a film. So, if your next conference paper was a play, film, or tv show, what would it be? Read More...
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Want to get away from it all? Postgrad Writing Retreat applications now open.
26 November 07 01:35 PM
The Graduate Research School is calling for applications for the Postgraduate Writing Retreat to be held in 2008. The writing retreat will take place on 4-8 February, at UWA’s Albany Centre, and includes both time for individual writing as well as opportunities Read More...
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a little reflection on my research
19 November 07 04:11 PM
It's been quite a while since I've posted about my research: in part, because I haven't been posting much at all, with the demands of full-time work and thesis writing fitting in whenever I find the time and energy, but also because I don't want to add Read More...
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I came last in the Cup
06 November 07 01:16 PM
Well, one of my office sweepstake horses did. And that means I have won a pile of (chocolate) gold coins - which, I must admit, is more my style of winnigns than any serious gambling. It's been a while since I've posted a recipe, so in honour of the event, Read More...
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