Language, ladies!

Silly minor gripe for the morning.  Female should be the adject­ive and woman the noun. So I don’t want to see “women con­tenders” in an Age art­icle about can­did­ates for the Family Law Court. Nor do I want to hear “It was because she was...

Procrastinating…

I added a page to my photo albums. It’s of the Holo­caust Memorial in Sydney that I wrote the plaque for in 1996. I’ll get back to the thesis now…

Work coming out of my ears

Today is the first day of my new two-day-a-week research assist­ant job (short term con­tract for three months or so). That means I’m now teach­ing at Mel­bourne Uni on Mondays, spend­ing Tues­day and Wed­nes­day on my thesis, Thursday and Friday as an RA at RMIT and...