TGI Friday!

A recent change in my responsibilities at work means that Friday is now the busiest day of my week. I think that this is probably a good thing. If I’m going to have an empty afternoon stretching out in front of me, when I sit idly refreshing my inbox and rss feeds in hope of [...]

Next to godliness

When I told a friend of mine a while ago that we’d decided to hire a cleaner, his response was “Why pay someone else to do something you can do yourself?” To which my reply was naturally “Why do something myself when I can pay someone else to do it for me?”
Ok, so there’s a limit to [...]

Bits and sods

I’m so glad I don’t have to “date” any more.
Fascinating story.
I’m changing jobs sometime in January (same organisation; different department). Apart from the fact that the new job will be more interesting, and more in line with my past work experience, the location of the new office is more central, which means that I can [...]

Oh, the Humanities!

This short film reminded me of my university days, and, more specifically, of the light-hearted enmity between hard-working sicence students and slacker arts students, as typified in the jokes below:  
Q: Why do humanities students leave their curtains closed all morning? A: It gives them something to do in the afternoon.  
Q: What do you say to [...]

Kill me now

That moment when you just want the earth to open up and swallow you: I’m lucky not to have had too many of those in my life so far (is that a good thing or not?), but one small example springs to mind.
I was working as a camera trainee on a TV drama series in [...]

Office Space

“So, this “office” where you do all your blogging, Simon - what’s it like?”
Well, there’s a plant: 

Not sure what it is, but it’s a succulent, which I like because they’re low maintenance. Yes, that is a salt lamp in the background.
There’s also some art: 

Chiara drew this portrait of her father recently. Yes, I was having [...]

What do you do?

I love it when I discover something that I had no idea ever existed before, especially regarding the things people can find to do for a living or as a hobby. Once, while spending a year teaching English in Genoa, I met a friend of a friend who said that she took dance notation for a [...]