My last interviewee wasn't there when I rocked up today. Although I'm frustrated (I missed out on another interview yesterday due to inability to coordinate that persons times with the bus timetables) that I've only done 4 in-depth interviews, rather than six, I can't blame them. I have that strange feeling that you get as a health professional ( Read more... )

What the deal with me not posting? I don't even know anymore. Maybe I'm a little too busy ( Read more... )

Today I gave a lecture on Palliative Care and the Pain Experience. It was quite well received. As usual, I think there's stuff that I could have done better. I always judge myself a lot with lectures, much more than with tutorials. Somehow, the fact that I'm speaking to more people and am on show in front of them for most of the time makes it seem ( Read more... )

"What happen's in Bizarro World stays in Bizarro world" - Drawn Together Season 1That kind of sums up my past few days. Usual things of band + friday night drinkies + sat morning run and markets. Then some much more unusual things. Some unmentionable. Others included attended the 21st of my ex-workmate's daughter, and then heading back home across ( Read more... )

Monday continued the sense of ick. I managed to get through work and pushed myself through a 7km run before I realised how sick I was a left in a coughing, sneezing, wheezing fit in my car. Not a good end to the day. There was just nothing I could do to stop the sickness that night. Which meant yesterday I took the day off uni (although worked from ( Read more... )

I felt it coming a mile away, the unwellness that I have experienced over the past couple of days. I think it had a bit to do with the relentless early starts for weeks ( Read more... )

*chortles* I love my new little digital voice recorder. It is so much fun. I haven't actually used it for anything more than my PhD interviews, but I keep getting ideas for how I could use it.. like recording new songs I come up with so I don't forget them in my sleep, conducting interviews with everyone and everybody, making an audio journal, even ( Read more... )

I was just wondering why i sitting at work at 6.15pm and tired. Oh, yeah, 5am check-in again ( Read more... )

*drools ( Read more... )

Yesterday was Paul's birthday drinks. It was great to see him again, and it was a reunion as well with one of my good friends from school, Amanda. She's all couply, and also doing her Masters in Australian Studies at UQ in the building across from me (and I didn't even know). We are both going to be academics forever (hmmm.. maybe not me ( Read more... )