katielou

February 2006



Will there be notes..?

Monday, 27 February 2006 9:23 P GMT+01
..from the conference? Well, yes and no. There'll be gossip, for sure... but as to promising typed up notes? I'm going to make a first priority finding out who's blogging the conference with typed notes and link there!

huh. thanks Bb.

Monday, 27 February 2006 5:01 P GMT+01
So, like, where was the corporate email that told me that Blackboard are now blogging at 'Educate/Innovate', while I'm happily (or not) going and looking at the old one from last year's conference to see whether they ever update it? Humph. Never mind

sunday in san diego

Monday, 27 February 2006 3:34 A GMT+01
 and I did have suncover on, honest. It seems the pacific ocean has cold sea but hot sun. Been on the trolley all round San Diego and Coronado, seeing the world famous Del Coronado hotel (built by raliroad workers and started before they'd finis
Category: play confs

humanity

Sunday, 26 February 2006 3:41 A GMT+01
And I almost forgot, but now I've remembered, it can go with another couple of things that have hit me this week. Today I met a holocaust survivor. A real one. I've never knowingly done that before. He was in a book&coffee shop (Ian, it was fab,
Category: general

San Diego downtown

Sunday, 26 February 2006 2:54 A GMT+01
Well I'm hoping Flickr's 'months' are calendar months, or I'll be able to hit my upload limit this month by Tuesday. Today's pics have been added. Today I did a circuit of downtown finding Adam's hotel, and discovering it isn't half so seedy an area
Category: play confs

eeny meeny...

Friday, 24 February 2006 7:02 P GMT+01
Well, it's about time I divested myself of the fluffy complimentary bathrobe (ie I've finished the pot of fresh coffee) and got on with my day. But what to do??? Will it be: the pandas (who have a blog), the whales, the art museum or Mexico?? To
Category: play confs

eternal triangles

Monday, 20 February 2006 3:51 P GMT+01
I'm very angry. VERY angry. I'm so angry that there is a whole tirade of abuse here ready to be written, but conscious of the earful I'd get from my conscience (and Christine) I'm not posting it until my blood pressure has come down from Mars. Please
Category: general

rob lee: outcast

Monday, 20 February 2006 2:59 P GMT+01
Oh dear. One of my all time fave toon players has just done us the ultimate disservice, and drawn us away to Chelsea in the next round of the FA Cup. Won't be rushing back for that then. Poor Al, no cup medal for him this year either. Rob, how could
Category: play

talking of new jobs

Monday, 20 February 2006 11:47 A GMT+01
...I've just knocked one more thing from my to-do list. After some heavy testing (yum) there are now two pink and yellow cakes in my freezer for Maddy's birthday party next weekend. Not quite the princess castle she might have got if I'd been around,
Category: play

photos from San Diego...

Sunday, 19 February 2006 11:57 P GMT+01
will be here shortly www.flickr.com
Category: work play confs

preparing for off

Sunday, 19 February 2006 11:40 P GMT+01
Well, Max has gone off to his grandma's this afternoon, under severe instruction to behave (we shall see...) and now I can turn attention to the last bits and pieces. Like packing. Or at least, deciding, washing, ironing and then packing. For wh
Category: play confs

the jewellery den

Wednesday, 15 February 2006 9:50 A GMT+01
Well, I dunno about online tupperwares or anne summers, but what about an online jewellery party?! Found out yesterday someone else I know is about to turn her back on university life and follow her dreams (bit of an extreme way of getting out of mor
Category: general

phew!

Monday, 13 February 2006 11:14 A GMT+01
Boy am I glad Blackboard's conference is east coast this year. Much as I lurve the snow, I wouldn't have fancied Baltimore looking like this... And packing skies is more effort than bikinis. Bit of a faff I can't get out to Norway until after I come
Category: general

#groan#

Monday, 13 February 2006 12:34 A GMT+01
Hmm. Another new week. Last week was a long and grim week, and I'm tired and harrowed. (I dunno if harrowed works as a word for you, but it works for me, which is what matters) This week has to see my presentation for San Diego finished (and the work
Category: general

cartoon row

Friday, 3 February 2006 6:59 P GMT+01
I see the BBC is struggling to avoid a racial row at the same time as putting forward the perfectly sound argument that how can we talk about what the fuss is all about if we can't see the pictures, so surely showing the pictures is fine in a purely
Category: general