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How to find a lost laptop (Rousse)

Posted on April 30, 2015 by Dreamaticus

This was embarrassing. After announcing at a meeting that we would not be buying new laptops from the group’s budget I then lost my own and needed a replacement – fast. I realised that it would be a good idea … Continue reading →

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Top of the academic pops (Rousse)

Posted on April 16, 2015 by Dreamaticus

Top researcher BB was so successful that he now earned another £87,000 on top of his salary. He’d also recently taken delivery of a flash company car. He told me this as he was setting up a meeting in my … Continue reading →

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Lord Sugar’s reassuring wink (Rousse)

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Dreamaticus

My committee had been taken over by a drag queen dressed in a yellow and purple mini-skirt and a yellow nylon wig. I dare not object, however, because she was also a senior member of academic staff. Her first task … Continue reading →

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Post-its as visual aids (Rousse)

Posted on March 28, 2015 by Dreamaticus

It was much easier for our project team to work in the new office. With the extra space we weren’t so much in one another’s way. I just wished that I had been kinder when I gave B feedback on … Continue reading →

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To Australia by sea with an unlimited baggage allowance (Rousse)

Posted on March 1, 2015 by Dreamaticus

It was so frustrating to find that both my meetings with the Scottish Government and Skills Development Scotland were cancelled. What made it worse was only discovering this news on arrival at the offices: first at Saughton House, and then … Continue reading →

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Homeless bed down in library lift (Rousse)

Posted on February 6, 2015 by Dreamaticus

I thought that I would help BP out by collecting his finished job from the Print Room and taking it up to the meeting. The problem was that I was unfamiliar with the lift system on campus. I couldn’t work … Continue reading →

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A failed meeting (Rousse)

Posted on January 3, 2015 by Dreamaticus

The committee was due to meet in my study. I arranged the furniture so that everyone would fit in: two seminar table arrangements, with the smaller one inside the other. As people arrived I took drinks orders (three instant coffees), … Continue reading →

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A missed reservation at the “best restaurant in the world” (Rousse)

Posted on October 19, 2014 by Dreamaticus

We arranged to meet in Paris at 1:30pm. J chose the venue: a beautiful white stucco-fronted hotel, opposite a formal park. When I arrived (just a couple of minutes late) J greeted me enthusiastically. Although we hadn’t seen one another … Continue reading →

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Simon Cowell champions women in science (Rousse)

Posted on October 8, 2014 by Dreamaticus

It was all very well for so-called consultants and other well-wishers to advise me to share out the work, but everyone else was just so busy – and I couldn’t trust them to do the job properly anyway. Everything was … Continue reading →

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A missing slide deck (Rousse)

Posted on September 16, 2014 by Dreamaticus

Although they said that it would never run again, I found that the conference was actually meeting in secret, and I was an invited speaker. In the break on the last day I went up to the podium to upload … Continue reading →

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