I just got an Official Communication in Oasis saying “It looks like you might be ready to graduate this semester - here are the dates you need to hand in your Intention to Graduate form by”. It’s a good thing too, because even though I am quite aware that this is my last semester of […]
uni - readings, assignments, mentoring, teaching, more readings, gotta organise honours - centrelink! so annoying. grr. holidays - need a Plan, need money, only 2 months, gotta find my passport, sure it’s in the pile of papers on my desk.. gotta transfer money, more work would also be good - lined up some invigilation - […]
My tax return came in today’s post. Hooray, I am saved from a pretty poverty-stricken Christmas (or digging into my savings). My job is casual, so I have to put in timesheets, and when I forget I don’t get money till after I remember (thanks to our beaurocracy-laded uni, not till four weeks after I […]
On friday I handed in my last assessment of the semester. This semester has been a particularly crazy one - the first half packed full of outreach stuff, and the second half packed full of catching-up. The last month has been particularly bad, because it was all of the biggest and most important assignments, and […]
Last week we had a whole crowd of primary school kids come to uni for outreach activities. I’ve been working on outreach stuff pretty much constantly since mid-August, and haven’t had much time for anything else. There’s no more outreach now till November. I enjoy doing outreach, particularly with the little kids, but I’m really, […]
Geraldton was fun and geeky. Here are some of the highlights:
I was on TV! Well, I was in a 10 second shot on GWN news, and I’m sure most people were looking at the guy with the liquid nitrogen, but nonetheless I was on TV… I’ve never been on TV before.
Liquid nitrogen! We went a […]
It’s 11:05pm of the night before the marking is due, and I have to be at uni and working by 8am, so it needs to be finished tonight. I’m getting near the end, but also slowing down - I’ve got 11.5 lots of Question 5 to go, then adding and data-entry. And I have to […]
Tomorrow I’m off to Geraldton for a two-day science fair. I’ve been all excited about it for weeks, and now that my little yucky patch of assignments, marking and rent inspections is over, I’m starting to get excited all over again. I’ve just finished packing my stuff, and tomorrow I’ve gotta buy snacks and pack […]
My throat hurts. I’ve just spend an hour and a half explaining file systems, inodes, indirection and fragmentation to a class full of first years who haven’t had the corresponding lecture yet. But at least that means that the roomful of blank looks weren’t because of my teaching skills! Yay! Or at least, weren’t entirely […]
Today was the first day in three weeks where I did not have some urgent task to do - no outreach work, open day stuff, assessments or more outreach work. I celebrated this occasion by sleeping in till 10:30. It was gooood… And, despite a brief downer between getting the post in and going to […]
