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Tag Archives: PhD
PhD write-up distractions: National Trust for Scotland properties (Rousse)
When I returned to work after my summer holiday I discovered that two of my PhD students had each become heavily involved in National Trust for Scotland properties, each of which was supposedly associated with their doctoral studies. How would … Continue reading
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Tagged distraction, doctoral, holiday, National Trust, National Trust for Scotland, NTS, PhD, property, site, student, studies, study, summer, theses, thesis, work, write-up
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Slim female academic transforms into overweight Chinaman (Rousse)
We were only permitted to join the PhD students at their table if they invited us to join them. XY was pretty certain that she could persuade at least one of them to offer us an invitation. However, this was … Continue reading
A coach change in Aberdour – and not Holy Island (Rousse)
Once I started collecting my sister-in-law SMcC’s cast-off clothes it was certain that we would never be able to carry everything home. I blamed TPR for bringing the huge television screen on the trip. Then I noticed the holes in … Continue reading
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Tagged Aberdour, apologise, belongings, carry, cast-off, change, clothes, coach, cotton, dial, fog, furious, hair, handset, help, holes, Holy Island, implication, iPhone, jersey, jumper, Leanne, Lindisfarne, north, peach, PhD, pink, red, remember, reveal, rotary, screen, secret, shell suit, sister-in-law, student, sweater, telephone, television, TPR, traditional, train, trip
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A PhD student, a wolf, and a champion demented Whitby stretcher-thrower (Rousse)
There was so much going on in the corridors that it took a long time to get everyone into the room and the main characters around the table for the PhD supervision. The student had become so paranoid that she … Continue reading
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Tagged ambulance, beach, boast, calm, champion, cheek, chit chat, chubby, coast, congratulate, conversation, corridor, demented, dementia, dress, feet, friend, health, honour, honours list, illicit, kiss, knighthood, mental, north, paddle, peck, PhD, piano, promenade, record, room, sandals, shoes, song, staff, stretcher, stroke, student, supervision, suspend, table, terrified, thrower, Velcro, Victorian, weight, Whitby, witness, wolf, wolves, work
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An unconsummated marriage and home delivery comfort food (Rousse)
I wed BB around ten years ago, but we never got round to consummating our marriage – which was just a well because we both had ‘real’ spouses of our own. An occasional quick hug and chat was all that … Continue reading
No room at the office (Rousse)
I couldn’t fit into my office because it was overrun by PhD students and the keynote speaker of their forthcoming doctoral colloquium (AB).
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Tagged colloquium, doctoral, keynote, office, overrun, PhD, room, speaker, student
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Jaded academic seeks oblivion with the help of yellow jellied cocaine (Rousse)
It took us a while to find the meeting on the top floor of a deserted University building. The venue was a formal board room, and it was packed. All the great and good were there, including KW who greeted … Continue reading →