Word count: 14,950 (includes margin text)

by | Apr 20, 2004 | Uncategorized

Have cut up the thesis, pasted it back together, pasted in bits and quotes from all over the place, it’s all a bit crazy… But the word count is encour­aging, even if it does include stuff I can’t really count, like notes to myself to rewrite sections… At...

Sock it to me, baby

by | Apr 19, 2004 | Uncategorized

While I was away, the delight­ful Jezebel got her­self a skin infec­tion of some kind. The vet says she’s never seen any­thing quite like it and noth­ing’s show­ing up under the micro­scope. I’ve got two weeks’ worth of anti­bi­ot­ics to give her and...

The yoof of today

by | Apr 19, 2004 | Uncategorized

Lath-daddy prom­ises more bling-bling for the yoof of Aus­tralia come elec­tion time, inter­est­ingly con­tras­ted to this story by Simon Castles on what the yoof of Aus­tralia really need.

Pleasant exhaustion

by | Apr 18, 2004 | Uncategorized

Another “what I did on my hol­i­days” post.  I’ve had quite a week. During the days, I’ve been work­ing on my thesis and mark­ing stu­dent assign­ments. During the even­ings, I’ve been swan­ning around with a dash­ing young bar­ris­ter. Lots...