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Praise me

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

Today I got back my essay that I have been waiting two and a half months for. I am very happy with the mark but that does not take away from the fact that we should of had them a lot sooner. I mentioned this problem at my personal tutorial this afternoon - where we [...]

Yesterday

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

… we had our group crit, and it was good (thanks Nat and Kate!) I was pleased as I had literally worked my arse off over this one (our mock-ups were made of win.) This time a few students doing peer review didn’t understand some of the choices we’d made but the lecturers seemed to [...]

Racing post

Monday, November 27th, 2006

Mark and I got back from Venice late Saturday night - had a fabulous Birthday four day break. I even got a bowl of tiramisu complete with ‘Happy Birthday’ written on it in chocolate, candles and the waitress singing happy birthday to you. I am now back to reality with a bump.
A special thank you [...]

Restored

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

Well I have internet. Broadband no less. It was a bit crap that the day they installed it the entire UK backbone decided to go kaploohie and the internet itself wasn’t working but hey… I can read my backlog of email!
Still not wireless (Bubb is doing that at the weekend) but at least the boing-boing-boing-kerpng [...]

A promise falls short

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

So much for two weeks.
I now have a phone line as of today - hurrah.
Now I have to wait another two weeks until BT bring forth the ADSL line so my broadband provider (who aren’t BT) can give me my fecking broadband.
I so want to be able to research bloody academic journals at home rather [...]