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[9 Oct 2009 | No Comment | ]
I survived!

I’m having a panic that I’ve forgotten how to blog. The past three weeks have been a blur and all the structure I’d created for myself with exercising and writing has flown out of the window. I’m writing, then deleting, then writing, then deleting…
This week has been quite something though! I met my tutees at Trevs. I can’t believe how nervous I was, more so than my last job interview. And we had a quiz on Tuesday, we didn’t win but I thought we’d done rather well (especially as some …

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[25 Sep 2009 | No Comment | ]
Busy Bee

When I left my previous job and London behind I swore I would never cancel something important again because of work. There were a number of times in the three London years that I let people down because I was too busy, too tired or both.
Unfortunately it seems I underestimated what summer means in the life of a university support department. Back in May I was happily agreeing to all sorts of projects and bits of work thinking that June through to September would be months of chilled out yet …

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[15 Jun 2009 | No Comment | ]
Weird Monday

Today has been a strange day… so strange indeed that I am blogging twice in one day.
Everything seemed fairly normal until after lunch when I traipsed around the library with the photographer trying to find students to take photos of in a library setting. The only weirdness in that is that you usually don’t spend a Monday being a prop in photos (to think I may feature in Durham University prospectus – enough to scare any potential student off!)
Settling back down to get work done there was a bright …

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[31 Mar 2009 | No Comment | ]
The walk home…

I wanted to share a couple of pictures I took on my iPhone on the way home from work today. The second picture captures the Old Fulling Mill (Durham University Museum of Archeology) with the reflection of Durham Cathedral in the River Wear.