Month: September 2014

8.32 am. The accrued emails of two-days were answered and returned, the remaining administrations regarding the MA programme resolved, and the typescript for my first Art/Sound lecture, formatted. 9.40 am. I…

8.15 am. My colleague, who is currently in Australia, confirmed the marks and comments for thos MA students who I’d examined in his absence and stead. Matt. 20.22 was begun. This…

8.30 am. I broadcast emails like the parabolic ‘sower’, hoping that some of my ‘seeds’ will land on fertile soil. Afterwards, I updated the postgraduate curriculum. At the School, the…

8.30 am. I listened to Angela Hewitt’s rendering of J S Bach’s Toccatas in the background while stretching Matt. 20.21 in the further distance. In the foreground, I unspamified my inbox and…

8.30 am. After my early morning preparations of the soul, and before I set out for the School, I subdued my inbox and completed the Art/Sound essay submission guidelines. Then, I…

8.30 am. I responded to emails related to the current research grant application and continued to fill the gaps (which are disappearing alarmingly quickly) in my teaching timetable. At the School of…

8.40 am. Academic year 2014-15, Day 1. A busy week of registration, induction, and postgraduate assessment ahead, and with a raft of the other teaching and research administrative routines in tow. I forwarded…

5.45 am. An early morning alarm, breakfast of a fundamental kind, and a walk to the railway station to catch the 7.30 am train en route to Cardiff to see…

8.15 am. Last night’s incoming emails were either deleted, forwarded, or (together with submissions of postgraduate texts) met with a response. At 9.00 am, I settled to begin the next Art/Sound…

8.00 am. The proportions of the Scottish flag are not fixed, variously assuming ratios of 5:4, 2:3, and 1:2. Likewise, the background colour can be either sky or navy blue. Abstract designs,…