Still alive!
Sep. 15th, 2007 07:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zcat_abroadYay! Spring is springing! I meant to mention this much earlier, when I had daffodils out on the first day of spring, for the first time ever! The plants are still happily flowering away.
The willows at the bottom of the hill are growing green again - not enough to see the leaves yet, just a green haze on the branches. So I have done some more gardening, bought some wild irises to put around the edges of the bush.
I also trapped (and therefore killed) my 6th adult possum last night. To balance the life-force, or something, I bought some fish today.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
zcatcurious thinks I bought them for the cat, but so far Mynx hasn't noticed them. I'm not sure why I like fish, they can't be cuddled or walked, but I find them restful, and have been longing for some. So now I have 4 comets, 2 red and 2 bronze. They were the smallest in the pet-shop, but I'm still going to have to repossess my large fish urn sometime, before they out-grow their bowl.
In study news, not much is happening. I finished a bit of a chapter, sent it off, and haven't yet heard back. I now need to prepare an hour-long presentation for MEDEMS (the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies). We also booked a trip to Hobart in November for a conference that I'm not sure is happening.
In teaching news, students are still not turning up to their tutorials. On the other hand, I am currently proving to the next HOD that I'm a much better, more organised convenor for Old English than the current guy. Over the break I organised the 4 lecturers for the paper to get together, sort out the essay topics, and lay down new guidelines for the exam. Now I am busy handling the fact that one of our lecturers has to race back to the States as his dad is dying. (Though the actual working out of this is not happening as fast as I thought it would owing to one of the other lecturers not reading email very often at home.) But you see, the great thing is that the next HOD is one of these lecturers I'm organising, so he can see me in action, and the actual convenor of the paper has been away all this time. I are earning Brownie points.
Right, that was a good ramble. Back to reading for my paper. Oh, and making up another test for tutorials.
The willows at the bottom of the hill are growing green again - not enough to see the leaves yet, just a green haze on the branches. So I have done some more gardening, bought some wild irises to put around the edges of the bush.
I also trapped (and therefore killed) my 6th adult possum last night. To balance the life-force, or something, I bought some fish today.
zcatcurious thinks I bought them for the cat, but so far Mynx hasn't noticed them. I'm not sure why I like fish, they can't be cuddled or walked, but I find them restful, and have been longing for some. So now I have 4 comets, 2 red and 2 bronze. They were the smallest in the pet-shop, but I'm still going to have to repossess my large fish urn sometime, before they out-grow their bowl.In study news, not much is happening. I finished a bit of a chapter, sent it off, and haven't yet heard back. I now need to prepare an hour-long presentation for MEDEMS (the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies). We also booked a trip to Hobart in November for a conference that I'm not sure is happening.
In teaching news, students are still not turning up to their tutorials. On the other hand, I am currently proving to the next HOD that I'm a much better, more organised convenor for Old English than the current guy. Over the break I organised the 4 lecturers for the paper to get together, sort out the essay topics, and lay down new guidelines for the exam. Now I am busy handling the fact that one of our lecturers has to race back to the States as his dad is dying. (Though the actual working out of this is not happening as fast as I thought it would owing to one of the other lecturers not reading email very often at home.) But you see, the great thing is that the next HOD is one of these lecturers I'm organising, so he can see me in action, and the actual convenor of the paper has been away all this time. I are earning Brownie points.
Right, that was a good ramble. Back to reading for my paper. Oh, and making up another test for tutorials.
