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A New Sect

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

In February I overheard Tweets about an upcoming event to be held in Dublin. “Breakthrough to Success“, a 3-day training course on Neuro Linguistic Programming and Neurological Repatterning, being offered by (the apparently famous) Christopher Howard at a cost per head of €1,200.
It had slipped off my radar until I learned that three people I [...]

Referendums on trousers

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

The Fat Controller returned my thesis, suggesting some changes and correcting some errors. One of my frequent “errors” was using the phrase these data show instead of the data shows.
My reply:
| Thanks for getting back to me so quickly, FC. I will work on this over the weekend.
| In the meantime, [...]

Last pieces of thesis

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

It’s done now. Well the hard part. I still have to concoct some “conclusions” and think up some “further work”. Oh, and write the “abstract”. But I’m doing none of that until the Fat Controller, my supervisor, and I meet this week, just in case he suggests a lot of changes. I don’t think he [...]

Thesised to pieces

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

That’s what I am – thesised to pieces. Six days solid now trying to finish the damn thing. Every waking minute and some of the sleeping ones.
Six long days under mouse arrest and all I’ve got to show for it is 20,000 words. They are good words though. I’ve used the word the a lot. [...]

Stuff

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

For those of you who liked my Making Movie Magic series and would like to try your hand/arm/leg at it, well now’s your chance – Annie Rhiannon is looking for volunteers to act in two student films in early November. Full details here.
In other news, Grandad’s not giving up blogging, even though a lot of [...]

Back to School #4

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

Read Back to School #1, #2 and #3.
Annie’s heading back to school today to study her film stuff. Fair play! Good on you girl! That’s what reminded me I never finished this series.
It also reminds me I was working on a film set shortly before going back to school myself. On the last day it [...]

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