- This writer knows what glass cutters are for but doesn’t know what they look like. She’s having somebody behead plastic dolls with one.
- You know suits of armour? Almost all are Early Modern LARPing costumes for festive tournaments. Not Medieval, not used in battle.
- Not having any teaching gig this semester is straining my finances. But I also miss belonging. Really enjoyed lunch & afternoon snack with colleagues at the Swedish History Museum today as I was there to look at finds.
- Trying something I should probably have done many years ago: looking at a form letter when writing a job application. This one’s from the Office of Career & Professional Development at the University of California, San Francisco, and it’s the top Google hit for “academic job application cover letter”. I gotta say though, it makes me feel like I’m at a job centre being pushed around by a caseworker.
- Surprised to find men ~45 taking out contact ads in the local paper. How does someone born in the early 1970s end up unaware or incapable of online dating?
- I’m 44 and I still have no gravitas. I’m beginning to suspect that I shall never develop any.
- Eight years of applying for UK uni jobs have taught me to expect a swift dismissal of my applications. The one big exception to this rule still has me scratching my head. Back in 2010, the University of Nottingham flew me over for a live interview and dinner at the Head of Department’s home. Even though I didn’t get the job (they already had a guy on staff whose field of research largely overlapped with mine at the time) it was a lovely experience. When I asked for advice about improving my application and interview responses they said “They were fine! We have no complaints. Just keep it up.” But at the time, I had never yet had a teaching contract and I had published no books yet after my thesis. What on Earth made them consider me? Clerical error?
- Excellent ATA archivist finds an invoice from 1928 documenting that none of the planned excavations were done at Ulvåsa that year. Now I don’t need to wonder why there’s no fieldwork report.
- A common problem among Sweden’s many little non-luxury yachting associations is that when one of the older members dies, the estate often just stops paying the membership fee and leaves the boat sitting in the winter parking spot as several tonnes of abandoned goods. It’s barely worth salvaging. You can have a really good 80s sailboat with four bunks for $2400.
- I am at peace with the English language’s bizarre placement of the stress in Latin and Greek loan words. But it wakes a murderous rage in me that English hyphenation software allows words with -logy to be hyphenated -ogy.
- A nightingale has been performing an improvised virtuoso solo in the ash tree next to our house for the past 15 hours.
- Stratified High Medieval sites like the ones I’m working with are unusually expensive to excavate. Because they’re so rich in informative iron objects. And iron is extremely expensive to conservate.
- I’ve been using word processing software for over 30 years, and never felt the need to use formatting templates. I see them as an unnecessary half step in the direction of graphic design software.
- Movie: Mustang. Five orphaned girl cousins in rural Turkey lead a free life until their guardians realise that the older ones are becoming sexually mature and clamp down hard on their movements. Grade: Pass With Distinction.
- I just realised that the 80s were really really soon after the 60s.
- Sooo weird, Americans’ patriotic attitude to war veterans. It would be better for the world if the American public came to believe that their war dead and disabled veterans are pointless sacrifices, not a focus of patriotic pride.
- Listened to New Order’s “Blue Monday” for the first time in like 20 years. Realised that the guy is singing in dialect, with a wide-mouthed A that sounds a lot like Scouse.
- Phew, that was a close scrape. I was two months from going broke. Just received a grant for another year.
- My buddy teaches programming. Got a suspicious piece of code handed in for an assignment by studentA who never did anything otherwise. Buddy finds the original piece that studentA has plagiarised from a previous participant on the course, studentB. And then some more digging shows that studentB had plagiarised the code from studentC a few years prior to them. *facepalm*
- Another buddy of mine who teaches relates. A student of his once got reprimanded for plagiarising an assignment, then handed in a new one that seemed strangely familiar. It was copied from my buddy’s own MSc thesis.
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- This writer knows what glass cutters are for but doesn’t know what they look like. She’s having somebody behead plastic dolls with one.
- You know suits of armour? Almost all are Early Modern LARPing costumes for festive tournaments. Not Medieval, not used in battle.
- Not having any teaching gig this semester is straining my finances. But I also miss belonging. Really enjoyed lunch & afternoon snack with colleagues at the Swedish History Museum today as I was there to look at finds.
- Trying something I should probably have done many years ago: looking at a form letter when writing a job application. This one’s from the Office of Career & Professional Development at the University of California, San Francisco, and it’s the top Google hit for “academic job application cover letter”. I gotta say though, it makes me feel like I’m at a job centre being pushed around by a caseworker.
- Surprised to find men ~45 taking out contact ads in the local paper. How does someone born in the early 1970s end up unaware or incapable of online dating?
- I’m 44 and I still have no gravitas. I’m beginning to suspect that I shall never develop any.
- Eight years of applying for UK uni jobs have taught me to expect a swift dismissal of my applications. The one big exception to this rule still has me scratching my head. Back in 2010, the University of Nottingham flew me over for a live interview and dinner at the Head of Department’s home. Even though I didn’t get the job (they already had a guy on staff whose field of research largely overlapped with mine at the time) it was a lovely experience. When I asked for advice about improving my application and interview responses they said “They were fine! We have no complaints. Just keep it up.” But at the time, I had never yet had a teaching contract and I had published no books yet after my thesis. What on Earth made them consider me? Clerical error?
- Excellent ATA archivist finds an invoice from 1928 documenting that none of the planned excavations were done at Ulvåsa that year. Now I don’t need to wonder why there’s no fieldwork report.
- A common problem among Sweden’s many little non-luxury yachting associations is that when one of the older members dies, the estate often just stops paying the membership fee and leaves the boat sitting in the winter parking spot as several tonnes of abandoned goods. It’s barely worth salvaging. You can have a really good 80s sailboat with four bunks for $2400.
- I am at peace with the English language’s bizarre placement of the stress in Latin and Greek loan words. But it wakes a murderous rage in me that English hyphenation software allows words with -logy to be hyphenated -ogy.
- A nightingale has been performing an improvised virtuoso solo in the ash tree next to our house for the past 15 hours.
- Stratified High Medieval sites like the ones I’m working with are unusually expensive to excavate. Because they’re so rich in informative iron objects. And iron is extremely expensive to conservate.
- I’ve been using word processing software for over 30 years, and never felt the need to use formatting templates. I see them as an unnecessary half step in the direction of graphic design software.
- Movie: Mustang. Five orphaned girl cousins in rural Turkey lead a free life until their guardians realise that the older ones are becoming sexually mature and clamp down hard on their movements. Grade: Pass With Distinction.
- I just realised that the 80s were really really soon after the 60s.
- Sooo weird, Americans’ patriotic attitude to war veterans. It would be better for the world if the American public came to believe that their war dead and disabled veterans are pointless sacrifices, not a focus of patriotic pride.
- Listened to New Order’s “Blue Monday” for the first time in like 20 years. Realised that the guy is singing in dialect, with a wide-mouthed A that sounds a lot like Scouse.
- Phew, that was a close scrape. I was two months from going broke. Just received a grant for another year.
- My buddy teaches programming. Got a suspicious piece of code handed in for an assignment by studentA who never did anything otherwise. Buddy finds the original piece that studentA has plagiarised from a previous participant on the course, studentB. And then some more digging shows that studentB had plagiarised the code from studentC a few years prior to them. *facepalm*
- Another buddy of mine who teaches relates. A student of his once got reprimanded for plagiarising an assignment, then handed in a new one that seemed strangely familiar. It was copied from my buddy’s own MSc thesis.
from ScienceBlogs http://ift.tt/1TRtc5K
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