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Deep Throat.
Posted Nov 10, 2011
I've been talking a lot lately. Instead of being stuck behind a desk I've been talking, talking, talking (and some day I'm going to have to type it up.)
In consequence, my voice has taken on a sexy, mellifluous timbre. This, I find, I like.
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I've decided.
Posted Nov 7, 2011
I'm going to do a PhD.
I don't know where yet (although there are two obvious candidates). And I don't know how. I naively thought you basically needed to take time out, but a friend pointed out that they actually pay you (
) plus I could get a research grant...or maybe even (worst case scenario) stay in my job. But I have it kinda mapped out and I know some professors to talk to. (Meeting my favourite one in London next week).
What really clinched it was my friend saying 'You'd walk it.' I'm not meaning to boast vaingloriously about my capabilities. It's more a matter of being old enough and having been round the block enough and various strands coalescing into a thesis topic.
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NeenaNannanaNooNo. This is the heavy heavy bonobo sound.
Posted Nov 3, 2011
It's odd.
Last month They announced potential redundancies. Nominally we're in a 20 day consultation period but I think there's a loophole whereby I as an outlier from our main site down south don't need to be consulted. Plue a large part of our funding seems to have dried up.
And yet enjoying work for once. Some opportunities have come up which should firstly keep me safe. More importantly...they are *interesting* opportunities, outwith our mainstream, morally dubious business, with interesting people in interesting places. Within the last six weeks I've been in Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Amsterdam and Antibes. Two of them were pure pleasure - crafty stopovers wangled for dubious porpoises. At the other two you can be damn sure I managed to mingle pleasure with business. Picasso? A Provencal market? What's not to like?
And even better - I'm doing stuff that I'm *good* at and therefore getting appreciated by likes of high-flying academics. If you stick me in front of interesting people, something will come out of it. If you make me do the job I'm meant to do I'll vegetate and my mind will wander to hootoo.
I crave stimulation!
Of course naturally the nefarious plan, easily recognised by my Swedelish friend, is that all this gives me the opportunity to do something different.
Meanwhile...back to earth with a bang. I haven't had time to do my Swedish Expenses. God knows how I'm going to get €100+ French meals through (God's honest truth! In off-season Antibes in a Hurricane I simply couldn't find anything else.) My next job is dull, dull, dull and next week I'm going to be forced to mix with military types at a conference about a topic I have zero interest in.
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Photo opportunity
Posted Nov 7, 2009
My Mum, my elder brother and...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/edwardthebonobo/4081146017/
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Mellow Submarine
Posted Sep 26, 2009
It's odd the connections one makes.
In my last Journal I mentioned Govanhill Pool. Hold that thought.
A few weeks back, we were having a clear out. I decided to dith a perfecly decent but surplus to requirements CD player (Sherwood) that was cluttering the place up. Only the charity shop was closed. But on the way back to the car, I passed the guy from Oddbins who'd popped out for a smoke. 'Nice CD player!' he said. So I gave it to him in return for a promised donation to a charity of his choice. He said he was needing one for his music studio.
So...I was on my way to Oddbins yesterday, via the charity shops on a "ns and book run. (aren't I always? 
?) and he was smoking outside again. He turned out to be a big fanof Calvin & Hobbes, which I'd just bought, he'd read http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=s4FeZmuBAqsC&dq=reefer+madness+schlosser&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=CWrOrcWDsg&sig=22hpOdFRkR-ZqOiux8oUFGlEnEk&hl=en&ei=S7C9SsqbJo_bjQf4z5Ex&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2 ... but he hadn't heard of this local hero: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Anarchists-Story-Life-Ethel-MacDonald/dp/1841586854 ...but he recommended the Oxfam in Govanhill for cool books. I said it was no surprise because there's lots of cool, politically-engaged people in the area and mentioned that I'd ben at the Govanhill Pool last week. 'So was I!' he said. So we chatted about The Great Pineapple Riot of '01, the squatters the roof, the regeneration scheme, Sikh Lungas, Asian Dub Foundation, Throbbing Gristle and the Anti Fascist Alliance. As one does. And then he got onto one of the pool's art projects that he's doing the music for. Which looks waaaaay cool:
www.85a.org.uk
And it just happens that he's talking to someone who knows shedloads of ex-RN submariners and also has a meeting next week with the head aof a university Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Dept...a contact he got via a colleague of Polish heritage.
So guess who's now been roped in to the project? 
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