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Tag Archives: university
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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Arnold Schwartzenegger’s boring speech (Rousse)
Two of my Polish colleagues had commandeered my office while I was on long-term sick leave. My desk and other belongings were now all squeezed into a dark corner. I hoped that this was a temporary measure and that I … Continue reading
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Tagged admin, Arnie Schwartzenegger, Arnold Schwartzenegger, basement, boring, campus, children, club, colleague, corner, couple, desk, dull, Easter, famous, floor, foundry, friend, gauge, guest, gym, hill, holiday, Hollywood, kiss, library, married, melt, mould, mountain pass, office, parquet, Polish, presentation, rover boat, school, sick leave, snog, space, speaker, speech, staff, temperature, university, walker, work, worker
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A messy office Christmas party followed by seaside coffee and cake in Aberdeen (Rousse)
A mixture of colleagues from all stages of my career came to the staff Christmas party. These included: my old boss JH; the wife and eldest daughter of my old office-mate SM; current colleagues DB and LD; a tall, skinny, … Continue reading
A Star Trek screening and a sick bed sanctuary (Rousse)
I was in no fit state to trek across the mountains after my operation, but TPR made me do this so that he could watch Star Trek films at the university cinema, snuggled up to a couple of women, who … Continue reading
Dealing with workplace bullies (Rousse)
When I congratulated Captain C on his thirty years of service at the University, he introduced me to his brother Martin. Although I had known Captain C for decades, until this point I had no idea of the existence of … Continue reading
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Tagged brother, bully, cheek, intervene, office, subling, suffering, support, table, target, university, witness, workplace
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Bike theft at Queen Margaret University (Rousse)
The Californian sunshine lifted my spirits so high that I was convinced that it was unnecessary to padlock my brand new bike outside Queen Margaret University. Of course, when I came back out of the building, my bike was gone. … Continue reading
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Tagged bicycle, bike, building, California, cycle, padlock, public, Queen Margaret, spirit, sunshine, telephone, theft, TPR, university
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Academic is owner of magnificent mansion on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne (Rousse)
I knew that it was unconventional to take one’s sibling to a school management meeting, but now that mine worked at the University (albeit in a different department), I thought that I would get away with it. SS glanced over … Continue reading
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Tagged academic, admire, art, black, blue, briar, bush, causeway, children, door, gate-crash, glorious, Holy Island, house, interior, lecturer, life sciences, Lindisfarne, magnificent, management, mansion, meeting, mother, name, north, Northumberland, notes, paintwork, panel, path, peel, pharmacology, photo, plan, red, rich, school, scrap book, scribble, sea, sell, ship, sibling, sky, stop, text, tide, TPR, university, upkeep, view, water, wood
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University cuts pay bill by cutting academic hours by a third (Rousse)
When JK hacked into RK’s email account he found over 5000 confidential messages exchanged between university admin staff on the subject of academic pay. The Principal had had a hard choice to make in respect of financial savings. To avoid … Continue reading
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Tagged academic, bag, bill, Christmas, colleague, confidential, cut, drop, email, finanical, gauze, hack, hours, pay, present, Principal, redundancies, redundancy, saving, semester, toiletries, university
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Marine biology meets Information Science at Loughborough University (Rousse)
Dressed in a shimmering, metallic ballgown, JH spun around the room with TPR. AM looked on in envy. Meanwhile all I wanted to know was why my colleagues at Loughborough University were encouraging Masters students to write Information Science dissertations … Continue reading
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Tagged ballgown, biology, dance, dissertation, envy, examine, guest, information sceince, lecturer, Loughborough, Marine, Masters, qualified, shimmer, spin, students, supervise, university
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Why bother with home-made Christmas cards? (Rousse)
EH sat at the far end of the sofa, watching me as I cut out shapes from unused Christmas cards to make some cards of my own. ‘What is the point of doing that?’ she asked. ‘I like to make … Continue reading
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