Journal Entries
Movember - NaJoPoMo - 1st Nov 2011
Posted Nov 1, 2011
Oh look. It's coming up 1:00am which makes it the 1st of November. Thomas Hood aside ( http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jerry/november.html ) November means NaNoWriMo, which madness I have always avoided, and National Blog Posting Month. Hence, this. Here.
It also means Movember, when blokes sprout taches "Facial grown and hand brushed" to raise awareness and funds for prostate cancer. http://uk.movember.com/
There are so many things I like about this. It's fun to see the moustaches. It's good to see guys doing something only they can do. It's a refreshing change to have fund raising that isn't breast-cancer-AGAIN. I am truly sorry if a friend, mother, aunt, sister of yours has had breast cancer, but it's a "popular" illness. Pink, even. You try raising money to refurbish your local clap clinic.
Or for prostate cancer.
Hence Movember.
And then of course there's the whole prostate exam thing. Billy Connolly's version is balm to the soul of any woman who has had cervical smears every three years for decades. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv3oY5tpSb4 (Probably not that safe for work, because of swearie Glaswegian language - "I am trying mentally to get in touch with my willie and I am telling it 'Don't. ***king. Move.").
To my disappointment, Z tells me "that isn't how you examine a prostate".
I am a Bad Woman.
Happy Movember, everyone.
Ben
Discuss this Journal entry [22]
Latest reply: Nov 1, 2011
17,989 - printed and posted
Posted Oct 26, 2011
At about 11:30 last night I hit CtrlP.
Yay! Or so you would think.
By 2:00 am my hands were covered in ink from cheap inkjet cartridges, my printer wouldn't print black, and I had managed to coax one reasonable copy out of it before it gave up entirely.
This morning I printed my regulation two copies at work and took them and the one from last night over the road to the copyshop who bound it for me.
Then I tried uploading the electronic version into Turnitin. Note the use of the word "tried". The Course Admin Person (who is a star and is the only person who's stayed in post for the whole of the course) told me to email it to her collueague who would TurnItIn for me.
Tomorow I wshall check the post office website to make sure it has in fact arrived (the last one took 48 hours not 24 despite extra postage) and I will phone Julie's colleague to make sure she has indeed turned it in.
If needs be, I'll fly down with it over the weekend and put it through the bloody letterbox myself.
But, in theory at least, 'tis done.
Ben
Discuss this Journal entry [45]
Latest reply: Oct 26, 2011
Help! I need a title for the bloody thing.
Posted Oct 20, 2011
I need a title for the disseration. Help me oh People of Hootoo.
I've created a subtitle:
An enqiry into expectaiont, claims, strategies adn tools from a Stakeholder perspective.
But a title? I've been fretting about this for four weeks. Help!
B
Discuss this Journal entry [89]
Latest reply: Oct 20, 2011
19,966
Posted Oct 18, 2011
Ideally of course, it should be about 17,500, but at least it's below 20,000.
I still need a title.
And an abstract.
And to do a shed load of references.
And I found a REALLY COOL AND TO THE POINT PAPER this morning, and I have 32 words to include it, if I do, which I probably won't.
Onwards, and onwards, and onwards, and onwar... slap me someone.
B
Discuss this Journal entry [8]
Latest reply: Oct 18, 2011
Good to be back.
Posted Oct 17, 2011
My, but it's good to be back. I'd not got involved in any of the testing, and I'd not realised how much I missed the old place.
Not gonna be able to edit my entries now, though.
B
Discuss this Journal entry [6]
Latest reply: Oct 17, 2011
Mrs Zen
Researcher U500175
Write an Entry
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly remarkable book. It has been compiled and recompiled many times and under many different editorships. It contains contributions from countless numbers of travellers and researchers."