Tag Archives: colleague

The most popular artist (Rousse)

Posted on February 8, 2014 by Dreamaticus

My father’s massive oil paintings hung with the rest of the exhibition in the campus gallery. They looked fantastic next to a huge variety of work, which included a beautiful black and white photographic composition by my colleague EF. At … Continue reading →

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Medieval French literature, relationship advice, a Jacobean trunk, and a blue Maserati (Rousse)

Posted on February 2, 2014 by Dreamaticus

We were working through archives of exam questions, extracting any that could be recycled for the next academic year. My collection was so old that it included questions on medieval French literature from my own undergraduate days. My colleagues started … Continue reading →

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Pension rights and divorce (Rousse)

Posted on December 30, 2013 by Dreamaticus

My former colleague’s husband took me to one side and revealed his secret: “I’ve fallen in love with a religious woman in the village and we are moving in together”, he whispered. “Does E know?” I enquired. “No, but I … Continue reading →

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A haul of hopeless academics (Rousse)

Posted on December 28, 2013 by Dreamaticus

Once again I had disappointed my boss with my lack of financial acumen. Meanwhile I was advising another colleague to be very careful over the content of his e-mail correspondence, and a former colleague was despairing at the cheek of … Continue reading →

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PhD interview disaster (Rousse)

Posted on December 12, 2013 by Dreamaticus

The printed schedule for interviewing the PhD candidates was littered with typos. Then one of my colleagues invited the first applicant to sit in the interview of the second, which was now running 30 minutes late. This was completely out … Continue reading →

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Rousse loses it at a meeting

Posted on November 7, 2013 by Dreamaticus

I was officially hopeless. At a meeting at work: I couldn’t remember PhD student L’s name and mistakenly introduced her to everyone as “Valerie”. My old colleague JB, with whom I had last worked in 1999, took my place in … Continue reading →

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Why Diet Coke is bad for you (Rousse)

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Dreamaticus

EH and I plus a couple of others joined the queue at the canteen. My choice of dinner plate was obvious: not the plain white china, nor the bright orange-glazed rough pottery, but the Highland Stoneware Celadon rock pool dish. … Continue reading →

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Final year project ideas – and a love poem (Rousse)

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Dreamaticus

I left my office mate to deal with the final year student who imagined that it would be possible to write up an honours project based on (a) a love poem to his girlfriend and (b) options for the purchase … Continue reading →

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Time-travelling academic gives conflicting advice (Rousse)

Posted on August 24, 2013 by Dreamaticus

I couldn’t work out how I would get to my office across the flooded swamp of campus. The assistant dean appeared to be leading us one way, but just behind us his younger self (plus wife and three children) was … Continue reading →

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Friday afternoons in academia (Rousse)

Posted on July 30, 2013 by Dreamaticus

If the funding councils knew how we spent our Friday afternoons, they would probably close us down immediately. A selection of my favourite colleagues – including MR, AM (normally resident at another university), JLW (not an academic) and an American … Continue reading →

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