I received official notification in the mail today from my university. I passed my PhD and both examiners returned with a ‘passed with no corrections required’ result. Both examiners wrote very nice things. I am very happy. 🙂 Not sure about the protocol regarding posting examiners comments on here. Do I get to call myself […]
Monthly Archives: February 2008
street machine blog
A belated welcome to Simon Telford, the deputy editor of Street Machine Magazine, who has fired up his blog (again?). Street Machine came into existence in 1981. It ermerged from another title called Van Wheels, which in turn emerged from one fot he first enthusiast publications in Australia, the Australian Hot Rodding Review. I trace […]
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Working Soft
Besides the non-paid work of writing, I have four jobs this semester. I have my Gleebooks job working events. This is on-going and I am reluctant to give this up because all the teaching work is sessional and there is no guarantee of work next semester. Teaching-wise I have tutoring gigs at two universities and […]
Stuff that Bourgies Like
Social stratification in the US is somewhat different that in Australia. There are not the same stratifications to the labour divisions. In an Australian context most of the observations made about what white people like on this relatively new blog should also be made about bourgies. Perhaps a similar class inflected version of the observations […]