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May 30, 2007
a bit of a blur
Alex James is talking in London next week. The Lecture List is giving away free tickets
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May 26, 2007
script frenzy
dug told me to sign up for script frenzy so I did
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May 22, 2007
not dry
The party was great. Not dry at all. The wine was consumed rather slowly, but that may have been partly to do with the fact that there had been some consumption in advance. Nice to see students outside class and with no more coursework or anything hanging over them (in most cases). And to hear about plans for the soon-to-be-graduating and the views from the end of year 1 and year 2.
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May 21, 2007
deadline day
It’s the final deadline day of the semester so I’m sitting here typing this above a hall full of administrators gathering work from tired students. The union bar is closed until September so the only way the students can get a drink after handing in is if they come to our unbelievably hip and groovy ‘handing in party’. I don’t think the students know there will be alcohol available as I just heard one of them say it would be ‘well dry’…
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May 17, 2007
back to 505
So struggling to blog these days. In case you’re interested, our family is currently totally grooving to ‘505’ from the new arctic monkeys album. Puts life in all our slideshows.
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May 4, 2007
Gilbert and George
Just caught a glimpse of them after a signing at the Tate Modern. Alice and I took in the exhibition while the Venturers we took there enjoyed the rest of the building.
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parkland walk
The Parkland Walk is one of the best things about the bit of Norf London I live in. The Friends of the Parkland Walk have just reawoken themselves and I’ve been co-opted as a committee member to represent our local Woodcraft Folk. Our main activity now is to respond to the ‘Greenway’ proposal to improve the walk with 400 thousand pounds the council have scored from TfL after putting in a bid no-one locally was consulted on until now. I went to a packed local area assembly last night where the consultation process began to get into gear. As Jed leaves local government (his time as a councillor has just ended) I find myself beginning to go to council meetings. And as Tony Bliar gets ready to leave, I think I agree with Jed that one of his main legacies is that no-one believes in consultation any more. I’m sure ‘so-called’ is one of its main collocates now.
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