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hump day thoughts of escape

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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hinc lucem et pocula sacra*

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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how i joined the rebellion

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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the good citizen

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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wanted: wookey hole witch

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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who licked my cheese?

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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too chicken for exams

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 [...]

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