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September 29, 2010
hump day thoughts of escape...
It’s one of those days with a To Do List of 856 items and all I want to do is find a cozy pub, a few [...]
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| 6 Bantering Wittily
March 16, 2010
hinc lucem et pocula sacra*...
In the early hours of tomorrow morning, in a random office in a New Zealand university, I will be conferred with a Post-Graduate Diploma in Business. [...]
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| 13 Bantering Wittily
March 7, 2010
how i joined the rebellion...
Strains of Bessie Smith were audible before I walked into the lecture theatre. As I took my seat I watched the professor standing at the lectern, [...]
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| 9 Bantering Wittily
September 2, 2009
the good citizen...
So that time when we protested against student loans and were held for questioning by the police, (in full riot gear with batons and dogs for [...]
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| 6 Bantering Wittily
July 8, 2009
wanted: wookey hole witch...
For three summer holidays at Otago, I worked at Student Job Search. There was an awful lot of demand for night-shift shelf-stackers at the Warehouse. The [...]
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September 24, 2008
who licked my cheese?...
This bloody genius device could have saved the great Cumberland Street Flatmate Dispute of 1996. When Matty the bio-chem student insisted on keeping his dead frogs [...]
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September 22, 2008
too chicken for exams...
In my last year at Otago I tutored educ101. I always looked forward to the excuses from students for handing essays in late. Or not being [...]















