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Audience & purpose. Specialisation & collaboration. BlogJune 22/14
Like Con, I am busy. I still am enjoying the #blogjune posts floating around. As with every year, I want to keep reading posts, which means keeping my side of the deal, and making posts here. I am...
View ArticleDo I procrastinate? BlogJune 22/15
Quick response to today’s June Question before bed. I procrastinate, but value it. I have learned, through hanging out with me for all my life, that sometimes I need more time for something to sink in...
View Article180 day Zoom meeting BlogJune 22/17
I have gone to ground for a couple of days while I set up all my course online sites and outlines to meet the Sunday night publishing deadline. I pre-populate all my weekly Zoom sessions for the...
View ArticleWhat if it wasn’t interesting? BlogJune 22/19
I stopped posting BlogJune posts for a couple of days because rather than say something incredibly boring, I decided to not post at all. The world doesn’t need extra words that are not charming,...
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What keeps me going? BlogJune 22/20
I have moved three times in the last 16 months. Discarding, prioritising, re-making, doing without, packing essentials, forming new habits and ways to do the previously familiar and automatic. It...
View ArticleWhatever the calendar says…BlogJune 22/22
Presciently, when planning my week off, I wrote in my calendar ”Day in Bed. Do Nothing. Rest” for today. That was just the right thing to do.I even levelled up. I had people over for dinner last night...
View ArticleKeeping up with scholarly communications BlogJune 22/24
How do you teach students to keep up to date with scholarly communications, and the role of specialisation and collaboration? I had a stab at it last study period with two separate assessments. In the...
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Computer power and human reason. Blogjune. 12/23
It’s minimalist Blogjune – one pic, one thing I did today. It’s a public holiday for the pretend birthday of some bloke in England. I could even hear a 12 gun salute for it at midday. What I did...
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Commenting. Blogjune 13/23
It’s minimalist Blogjune – one pic, one thing I did today. Livestreamed, after work yoga. (Or… yes, I forgot to take pics again today..) What I did today: Commented on other blogjune people’s posts...
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Up in the gods. Blogjune 14/23
It’s minimalist Blogjune – one pic, one thing I did today. In the very back balcony row, waiting for the show to start. It’s all Elvis. Not the good one (Costello), but the other one (Presley). I am...
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3am journalling. Blogjune 15/23
It’s minimalist Blogjune – one pic, one thing I did today. The pic is sunset over the city, a week out from Winter Solstice. What I did today: Woke early. Warmed some milk and sat in my special...
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Bamboo table. Blogjune 16/23
It’s minimalist Blogjune – one pic, one thing I did today. What I did today: Sat around my bamboo table with a couple of good friends eating cheese and drinking gin. I am going to invite them over at...
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I was only 19. Blogjune. 17/23
It’s minimalist Blogjune – one pic, one thing I did today. What I did today Drafted a post about ethics before cycling down to see Rockwiz’ tribute to my new home town. I wasn’t going to post about...
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Walking the winter spiral. Blogjune 18/23
It’s minimalist Blogjune – one pic, one thing I did today. What I did today: Gathered outside with a group of women to share thoughts on winter, drink warm spiced juice, eat freshly cooked damper, sit...
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Somebody think of the psychosocial safety of council staff! Blogjune 19/23
… or … The logical fallacy “Somebody think of the CHILDREN/ Lovejoy’s Law” updated for 2023. Let’s state right off that nobody should harm children. Workplaces are often unsafe and employers need to...
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Olive grove. Blogjune 20/23
It’s minimalist Blogjune – one pic, one thing I did today. What I did today: Walked the parklands, past this olive grove. Because holidays.
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Broke it. Blogjune 21/23
It’s minimalist Blogjune – one pic, one thing I did today. What I did today: Broke my blog. Good and proper. TL;DR CAUTIONARY TALE FOR OTHERS: “Nonce verification failure”. If you self-host WordPress...
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CO2 on a plane and in a taxi and an Uber and a concert
I changed jobs in December to something where I travel a few times a year. (And I work hard at interesting work, people are marvellously collaborative, I feel like I am working toward something...
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Winter out there, spring here. Blogjune 1/24
Back. Joining the decreasing gang who attempt to blog every day of June. I’m going minimalist again this year. One pic and one thing I did today … and more if I want to. WHAT I DID TODAY: (I am...
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She Speaks and She Shanties. Blogjune 2/24
ONE PIC FROM TODAY ONE THING I DID TODAY Long-form improv performed by an all-female sea shanty group anyone? Yes please! Totally unintended. I HAD intentionally attended a concert presented by the...
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