Public vs Academic Libraries. Blogjune 9/24
ONE PIC FROM TODAY It’s a tiny movie that takes a bit of time to load. The berries on the common hackberry almost touching my balcony have matured enough for me to share my space with lorikeets for a...
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Changing names. Blogjune 10/24
ONE PIC FROM TODAY This shows the city from a ridge of a walking track that begins just behind my office. It’s a public holiday today, so I did a long bushwalk with friends before returning home to...
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Back to Back. Blogjune 11/2024
ONE PIC FROM TODAY ONE THING I DID TODAY I had 8 meetings back to back, including an online briefing about the Very Important People our office was going to lunch with, plus the lunch itself. And one...
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Couldn’t be closer. Blogjune 12/24
ONE PIC FROM TODAY ONE THING I DID TODAY Cabaret-style seating had me in a bentwood chair at the front of a table, touching the stage as watched UK sisters Nichola and Rosie Dempsey, who perform as...
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Down time. Blogjune 13/24
ONE PIC FROM TODAY ONE THING I DIDN’T DO TODAY Fold all that washing on the end of the sofa. I didn’t see a show. No travel. Taking time out while I can, before a few days of whirl.
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First whirl. Gold chairs gold curtain. Blogjune 14/24
ONE PIC FROM TODAY ONE THING I DID TODAY Washed the cat so she won’t be smelly for the housesitters. Now sitting in a gold plastic chair about to see an improv musical, with Julia Zemiro. I was a fan...
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Pharaohs or tree lights or shopping or bed? Blogjune 15/24
ONE PIC FROM TODAY ONE THING TO DO TODAY I booked accommodation for the weekend, aiming to fly over Friday afternoon. I realised two weeks later that the Cabaret Festival show I had earlier booked for...
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People of the book and people of the screen. Blogjune 16/24
TWO PICS FROM YESTERDAY (My blog. My rules. I can fiddle faddle with them if I want) An answer to Pharaohs or tree lights or shopping or bed. Blogjune 15/64 / In 2008, I described on this blog my...
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Problems and success. Blogjune 17/24
ONE PIC FROM TODAY (Someone in the lobby of the law school building at the University of Melbourne is playing beautiful piano music while I have an hour’s down time and un-peopling before going out to...
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Virtual and in-person. Blogjune. 18/24
ONE PIC FROM TODAY Today was the first day of a two-day public symposium I am organising to show people the research infrastructure we are building. The first day of the symposium explains how we got...
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Homeward bound. Blogjune. 19/24
ONE PIC FROM TODAY University of Melbourne from 10th floor of Law School Building, Pelham Street. Today was a success too. This has been the most incident-free event I have been associated in this job...
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The cat sat on my hat on the mat. Blogjune. 20/24
ONE PIC FROM TODAY There’s proof. Not staged. Note the lower teeth. The only two she has left. The vet left them when the other teeth were removed due to disease in December, hoping the top lip would...
View Article108 Sun Salutations for Solstice. Blogjune 21/06
ONE PIC FROM TODAY Nope. ONE THING I DIDN’T DO TODAY 108 Sun Salutations to celebrate Winter solstice. I had registered to do this with my yoga studio, having missed it the last two years. I went for...
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Limits. Accepting. Blogjune 22/24
ONE PIC FROM TODAY Neighbourhood gathering in the Square. Nature Play with cubby making. Welcome to Country. Live acoustic music. Basketball. Firepit. Marshmallows. Free hot chocolate. Chatting with...
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Living in community. Blogjune. 23/24
ONE PIC FROM TODAY The pic above is the basket I left in the garden near the benches at the bottom of the staircase of an apartment building in the urban eco-village. The circular courtyard between...
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Hello? Possum! Blogjune 24/24
ONE PIC FROM TODAY In the park. After dark. Riding home from work, so very well rugged up. She tore along the ground, matching my speed. I stopped. She stopped. She looked about, did cute possum-y...
View ArticleAcademic workload. Bah Bye! Blogjune 25/24
NO PIC TONIGHT I went out to dinner on a Tuesday. Extraordinary! Two guests were academics. They both work most weekends. And into the late night many nights a month. They have little actual time to...
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On the good party drugs. Blogjune 26/24
ONE PIC FROM TODAY This happened last time. In December Ada had most of her teeth out, returning home high as a kite. Right now she has not a care in the world and is wriggling and pouncing like a...
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Networks diffused. Blogjune. 28/24
ONE PIC FROM TODAY I spent too long choosing glasses that are too expensive. Apparently they don’t just do the old cross in texta on the lenses any more. I wore this frame with reference points around...
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