Archive for April, 2006
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Tonite pics, tomorrow post;)
By Nana | April 29, 2006 | Topics: Les Voyages | 3 Comments »
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… banana … London … the model … temperatures in Ljubljana … Depeche mode’s June concert … blisters on the feet … green pina colada tea … Jana’s wedding … online focus groups … USB air conditioning … the loo … contact lens … flight tomorrow … my mom … creative commons … May … pilates … white skirt … firefox upgrade … feedback-loop … virtual ethnography … morning run … Brix (a dog) … lip butter … diving suit … hair wash …
These are just some of the key words, which distracted my head in the last 10 minutes. No wonder I get so little work done!!!
By Nana | April 25, 2006 | Topics: PhD | 3 Comments »
Silly Girl!
Yesterday, I replied to an email of my friend and today he wrote back. I am publishing it as I really appreciate his bluntness and being direct, also a good laughter material (apart from the first and the last bit).
To my “happy to hear you are doing well”, he replied: “Did it seem that things are going well?! Sorry, that wasn’t intended! I’m up to my eyeballs in debt, I hate not seeing (the name of his girlfriend) and my career prospects are almost non-existent!“.
About jobs in academia: “Academia is a good career if you can get your foot in the door, but it takes so much persistence over such a long period of time that it seems that you have to be single, relatively friendless, and willing to tolerate a scandalously low salary and huge job instability!!!”
And to me, saying that Lillian is my favourite “Playing the Angel” song: “Lillian is ruuuuuubbish! It’s very catchy, but it’s definitely one of the worst songs on the album! Silly girl 
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He concluded: “OK, I have to write another job application now :/”
My dear friend (who is reading this from time to time so will know that’s him), I wish you all the best and I hope that things will get better for you soon. But, I will send you an email and tell you what you have to hear about Lillian being rubbish;))
By Nana | April 21, 2006 | Topics: Personal | 2 Comments »
Awwwwwwwwwwwww … sweet!
“How are you doing? Do you love life and the first breeze of warm spring air, rays of april sun making you twinkle and bell shaped flowers curiously creeping out of the winterly mud??? Or are you too condemned, a prisoner of your ambition, confined to stay inside your faustian study of damp and drafty darkness the whiff of mold and rotten paper all around you?”
Give me more emails like this one!*^_^*
By Nana | April 20, 2006 | Topics: Personal | 3 Comments »
Finally
I submitted it!
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No, not the PhD, but the article;)
By Nana | April 19, 2006 | Topics: PhD, Research | No Comments »
Blast in Tel Aviv
Lisa’s story … I emailed her whether she was ok, and indeed she was not far … here are her photos. She is one brave girl. And apparently a great journalist.
By Nana | April 17, 2006 | Topics: General | No Comments »
I knew it!
As per usual, I ran into this test at Jeremy’s page. Of course, I could’t resist as I wanted an official confirmation that I truley belong in London. And I took the test … waiting for the results, hoping London would pop-up … if it had been any other city, of course, I would have been sad sad sad … But … I belong in London … right, packing … moving for ever … leaving in two weeks! (ok, I really fly off in two weeks, but just for virtual methods event).
| You Belong in London |
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By Nana | April 17, 2006 | Topics: General, Les Voyages | No Comments »
Sweet Coincidence
“Things aren’t exactly random, but they aren’t completely determined either.” it’s how Becker describes coincidence. Lately in my life, coincidence plays such a crucial role. It always did probably, only that I wasn’t so attentive to it. So here’s what happened yesterday and it made my day:
I was invited to the cinema KINODVOR to see a movie, called Czech dream - (which deserves its own post anyway). Those who might remember, a few years ago we were able to buy our own seat in there to support the cinema. So I did with my friends. I never went and visit before, shame on me. So yesterday I got this ticket and …. it was exactly my seat. Of course I didn’t realise that until the end, when I started to look around which seat that must have been (all I remembered was that it was on a balcony). After checking several, I looked at the one I sat on and it said: Sapienti sat! I was like a little kid who got a new bicycle;)
I know, small, trivial story but for me the light of the day. Anyone has any nice coincidence to share?
By Nana | April 13, 2006 | Topics: General | 5 Comments »
Rules on my desk
For more disciplined writing, I wrote down some rules I am trying to follow more or less successfully:
Rule 1: Make writing a daily activity, whether feeling like it or not!!
Rule 2: Write on a regular basis (!), even if small amounts!
Rule 3: Organise writing tasks in terms of time and sequence!
Rule 4: Keep daily charts of: –> time spent for writing;
–> pages written!
Rule 5: Send your work to people to receive much appreciated comments!
Rule 6: Writing is not to be subjected to weather conditions!
Rule 7: If you fail to follow these rules, bear in mind, that there are no exception to these rules!
Rule 8: “Easy cheesy” , “piece of cake” , “no problem” , “I can do it”, “I love it!” …… are the words to be used whenever you encounter with a writing blockage!
Anything else to be added?
By Nana | April 10, 2006 | Topics: PhD | 4 Comments »
Robbed
This morning I woke up from most awful dream. My laptop, mobile and wallet got stolen. Of course I was most worried about my PhD file on the laptop;)) Then, I remembered I got backups on external disk and on usb stick;) Not only with PhD file, but also with all EndNote references. I was happy! I didn’t mind being robbed at all anymore.
By Nana | April 4, 2006 | Topics: PhD | 3 Comments »
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