Category Archives: 2008

2008 Reading List

The numbers: Number of books read in 2008: 99 New reads: 95 Number of books read in 2007: 85 Number of books read in 2006: 64 Number of books read in 2005: 56 Average read per month: 8.25 Average read per week: 1.9 Number read in worst month: 1 (July; travelling in Europe) Number read [...]

Year’s end

2008 just seems to have whizzed by. Christmas over again for another year. No pictures today, as our camera is bung (dropped on its eye by a six-year-old, sigh) and is away, being repaired. I am missing it terribly; it feels strange to not have any Christmas photos. If you want to see part of [...]

Are we there yet?

I find it amusing that quite a few people think that there’s nothing happening at uni at this time of year. (The same people who think that teachers just show up at class and teach, without having to do any prep, or marking, or learning for themselves, I guess.) Just because the students have finished [...]