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Tag Archives: university
Library staff roles in University elearning systems (Rousse)
The vice chancellor was going to the US for a fortnight and left SC in charge of everything, including finance. Just before he left, he asked SC to read out the history of the University as printed in gold embroidery … Continue reading
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Tagged blue, bolster, cushion, data, elearning, embroidery, entry, finance, gold, history, library, objection, staff, system, university, Vice Chancellor
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Stop distracting me, Sir Ian McKellan! (Belle)
Three weeks into my mathematics degree I still hadn’t made it to a single class. Every time I tried to make my way to the classroom, I would be waylaid by Sir Ian McKellan and Michael York offering me small bottles … Continue reading
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Tagged Champagne, mathematics, Michael York, phone box, Sir Ian McKellan, university, urinal
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Middle-aged errant husband enjoys ‘space’ in the arms of a 21 year old student (Rousse)
TPR announced that he needed some ‘space’ so he moved out of our marital home and into a shared flat in Bruntsfield with a bunch of undergrads and some young professionals (one of whom had just been offered a lectureship … Continue reading
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Tagged 21, arms, beg, Bruntsfield, Cambridge, cycling, discovery, enjoy, errant, heartbroken, holiday, home, husband, Isabel Peters, lectureship, marital, middle-age, professionals, sleep, Sonya, space, STD, student, TPR, undergrads, university, young
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‘Intelligence calipers’ measure IQs of aspiring spooks (Rousse)
The job advert had read ‘civil servant’ but I knew that the panel members opposite me were assessing my suitability for a role that included subterfuge, espionage, honeypots, and data decryption. I played along answering the standard interview questions with … Continue reading
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Tagged advert, artefact, caliper, candidate, chair, civil servant, clue, data decryption, degree, espionage, floor, history, honeypots, inquiry, intelligence, interview, job, murder, panel, questions, role, room, school, sinus, spook, subterfuge, TPR, university, wall
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A pin-up litter picker (Rousse)
TPR was the pin-up of Newcastle University. My nephew PMF was his agent. He arranged for TPR to live free of charge in the a hall of residence room, provided that he would pick up the litter on campus.
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Tagged agent, campus, free, hall, litter, nephew, Newcastle, picker, pin-up, residence, room, TPR, university, University of Newcastle
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An unworthy dissertation on Elizabeth I (Rousse)
SC and I were trying to work in one of the smaller University library reading rooms. While I was still worrying about my degree, she was marking a dissertation on Elizabeth I. She and JK wanted to fail the work … Continue reading
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Tagged academic, album, art, degree, dissertation, Elizabeth I, library, mark, photo, photograph, project, Reading, university
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Apprentice Russian oligarch drug dealer caught red-handed outside St Pancras hotel (Rousse)
My big, burly boyfriend was a chip off the diamond that was his gangster father. I adored him because he was always there for me, keeping me safe from harm. In the past he had appeared from nowhere to recover … Continue reading
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Tagged Apprentice, bag, bottle, boyfriend, deal, dealer, diamond, drug, Euston Road, forecourt, gangster, harm, hotel, liquid, mountain, oligarch, plastic, range, red-handed, rescue, reunion, Russian, safe, St Pancras, stranger, suspicious, university, vial
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A compromise husband and security failure (Rousse)
I needed a new husband. David looked like he might fit the bill. He was young, kind, had a good job in student services at the University, and seemed willing to go along with this plan. (However, he had fair … Continue reading
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Tagged Belle, camera, campus, compromise, David, duty, fail, failure, fair, fit, husband, security, services, shoes, steal, student, TPR, university
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Spy penguins deployed to improve University security (Rousse)
The University issued an orange and black plastic spy penguin to each member of staff. Mine was tall, thin and male. AL was very proud of his slightly overweight female bird with wide floppy ears. The powers that be instructed … Continue reading
University reunion surprises (Rousse)
At the university reunion one girl complained that her breast reduction surgery had not been worth the bother, another seemed unable to sit still at the table (until we realised that she was popping out for cigarettes every ten minutes … Continue reading
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Tagged breast, cigarette, class, girl, kitchen, member, reductiom, restaurant, reunion, success, surprise, table, university
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