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Category Archives: Uncategorized
Belle the librarian serves Rousse the criminal (Rousse)
It was a tough route up the concrete staircase in the cold to the main library of Birmingham City University, but so worth the struggle to be greeted by squeals of joy from Belle, on duty at the main enquiry … Continue reading
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Tagged arrest, Belle, Birmingham City University, campaign, card, career, classroom, concrete, crime, criminal, CV, desk, dull, enquiry, forearm, graduate, grown, hall, joy, lecture, librarian, library, police, protest, Rousse, SCONUL, sensible, shock, sit-in, staircase, student, suspicion, table, terribel, toned, warrant, work
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Human horse travels uncomfortably across the Atlantic (Rousse)
Normally a seat in the second row on a transatlantic flight would mean plenty of leg room – perhaps even a bed – but not on this service. I was sitting directly behind a mother and a baby, both of … Continue reading
An unreasonable demand for £250,000 (Rousse)
BEX was at it again. This time he was threatening the Director of Finance with leaking stories to the press unless he handed over the £250,000 that ‘belonged’ to him.
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Tagged 000, £250, £250k, belong, demand, Director of Finance, leak, press, story, threaten
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How to progress your career (Rousse)
It was the Professional Development Review season at work. My reviewer was PN, an ancient octogenarian former librarian who was still drawing her salary. I wasn’t terribly impressed with my reviewer’s performance. Her only advice to me in respect of … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, career, divide, librarian, octogenarian, office, PDR, performance, Professional Development Review, progress, reviewer, salary, suggestion
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A winning sausage conference submission, with citation indexes (Rousse)
EH and I felt obliged to attend the University research conference, even though much of the content was of little interest to us. On our arrival we could tell that many of our colleagues had ignored the event. This was … Continue reading
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Tagged basement, cafe, citation, colleague, conference, event, French, friend, index, model, National Library of Scotland, PhD, poster, research, sausage, student, submission, university, write-up
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The PhD cheat (Rousse)
‘Why have you recently made so much progress on writing up your PhD?’ barked the professor at the cowering student, as if this was a terrible crime. The student looked at me from across the table, and I turned to … Continue reading
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Tagged accuse, accuser, author, cheat, colleague, crime, PhD, professor, publication, student, supervision, suspicion, thesis
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Rousse supports Manchester City (Belle)
I was on a coach trip to the Manchester football derby. There were impressive fan facilities and a jumble sale. My friend found a lovely cream and orange sweater on a stall and ran over to me. I was amazed … Continue reading
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Tagged coat, football, jumble sale, locker, Manchester City, Manchester United, Rousse, stadium, sweater
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Kidnap victims escape captor by first class rail (Rousse)
BR and I were being held hostage by a crazy gunman who thought it hysterical to ‘tease’ us by holding a gun to our heads. Even funnier, in his warped mind, was to hand the deadly weapon over to each … Continue reading
