This is interesting. The Eyes of Laura. Will read more later. Blog, surveillance, videos, narrative, yeah, interesting.

Anders got the job! Hooray for f??rsteamanuensis Anders!

Things are really rather hectic. Not necessarily too hectic, but every minute at work is full and my list of things to do is getting longer, not shorter. I bought a paper newspaper today, despite my (unsatisfying) paid subscription to the PDF […]

They’ve identified Ole and Kirsti’s bodies. They probably have Shyrin‘s, too, but are still identifying it. I’m not sure what I’d expected to feel. All I have is an urge to change the subject every time its mentioned. I told my daughter […]

Look! Snowdrops! It’s nearly springtime!

Students are good fun. I insist the HUIN105 (webdesign by blogging) students take photos and upload them to their blogs, and of course, they do, with the eyes of true documentarists.

I’ve been quite amused at comments from students and colleagues who enjoyed my recent Bridget Jones version of department head blogging, but who have totally missed the intertextual reference. I mean, come on, it’s blatant copy-catting! Surely I’m not the only new […]

I’m switching my URL. I’m going to have to change URLs in any case and it seems obvious that I should choose one I like and will be keeping. My two options are jilltxt.net or txt.uib.no – and I don’t know which […]

Teaching: 39%, admin 58%, research 3%, total work time 10 hrs 20 mins (v.g., can leave early tomorrow), number of times checked blog to see if new comments 39 (pathetic), posts or comments written before this 0, boyfriends 1 (v.g.), number of […]

Maybe this admin thing won’t be so bad after all. Today’s time use was 60% teaching, 15% administration and 25% research, for a total of 7:54 hours. This blog post is being written in my spare time. Unfortunately the research was all […]