Just added Chris' pictures of our Vyne hike to my set here.  If you look at the page I've just linked to, the new ones start with the second batch of tulip photos (after the picture of the Vyne Estate building from across the river).  Otherwise, you can just pick up with this photo here and navigate along through the photo stream.

On Tuesday afternoon, we headed to Milton Keynes by way of the house of a friend of Chris', a professional photographer named Tim. We spent nearly three hours at Tim's, sitting through a photoshoot to get the pics Chris wanted for the website. Have I mentioned I hate professional photo shoots? Very tiring, and not nearly as fun as you'd think.

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Stolen from professormortis - strangely, I felt all the text it told me about who and what I was was actually dead on...


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You'd think we spoke the same language over here.  You'd be wrong.  Some of the terms below have caused real, albeit temporary, confusion.  Some have just been humorous.

aubergine = eggplant
bin = garbage can
cashpoint = ATM
chivvy up = to hurry up (ex., "I'll go chivvy up the boys so we can get going.")
corgettes = zucchini
diary = schedule, calendar
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I manged to straighten out Chris and Jason's computer issues today, resolving IP conflicts, and enabling my laptop to connect to their wireless (for the first time ever while visiting them).  Spent much of the rest of the morning fuming about work issues (my own), and then reading through Chris' intro handout for and playing around in the software ( Read more... )

Woke up this morning and continued work on the website on the desktop computer in my room (Chris' home office) because the weather has now turned grey and cold.  Chris came up and joined me on the bed with her laptop, working on a chapter for which she is overdue for submission for a sociological textbook.  Her chapter is on participatory action ( Read more... )

The conference ended Friday at lunchtime.  In the AM, I attended a highly theoretical plenary which elicited whoops of appreciation from one of the developers, who shall here remain nameless.  *rolls eyes*  Why would you WHOOP at an academic talk?!  Then, I went to sit in on the stream that Ian was chairing, whose presentations seemed to be ( Read more... )

I've done this conference all wrong. I have learned at previous conferences that under no circumstances should you attend every session, every plenary, every event. However, I wasn't smart enough to take a break on Wednesday, and Thursday proved no better. I went to the plenary (you read about that yesterday), then had to chair a session. It ( Read more... )

The first day of the conference was yesterday, Wednesday.  It was alright.  My presentation went generally well, but was the last half hour presentation in a two and a half hour block.  I had about 30 people present, including some very high power folks -- Ray Lee and Nigel Fielding (big names in the history of qualitative research and the founders ( Read more... )

The puppies are coming!  The puppies are coming!!

Marissa (my intern and the breeder's daughter)emailed me yesterday and sent pictures (which you can see here!!!) saying that Mocha was having her litter.  At the time she emailed me, there were 5 girls and 2 boys.

Very exciting.  I just did a little dance here in the lobby of the conference venue.  *