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I’ve had a very nice, productive day – at work. That is to say, after weighing up the various factors, including Emma’s bronchitis and potential need for my caring duties, and the icy-snowy weather, and the fact that I really…
Continue readingI’ve had a lovely mini-holiday these past four days. Emma and I have done some lovely thing, and of course that makes it all the harder to go back to work, even if, for me, work is something that is…
Continue readingAfter a four-day weekend, today has been very much a struggle. No, it *is* very much of a struggle. I want to be at home with Emma, or rather, I want to be out somewhere, with Emma and enjoying a…
Continue readingEugh, it’s been a yucky week. Dull work, dull weather, and not even any magpie inducing shiny things or lights at the end of the tunnel yet as to when my second interview is! Ggrrr… I’m trying to remain optimistic….
Continue readingLast week I got conformation that OUP have decided to extend my contract through to November. As a consequence of this my tasks have changed slightly and so, so far this week I have been surfing the seedier side of…
Continue reading1. You can’t call it training, but it is exercise. Tonight, I swam 48 lengths in 50 minutes. Not bad, but if I am to ‘beat the hour’ with my 60 lengths, I need to do better. If you haven’t…
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Continue readingIt’s been coming for a while now, but with no end date or details it’s been hard to really plan for things, except to apply for other things as they come up. On 30 April 2007, the job role of…
Continue readingIt’s occurred to me today, that, after the events of yesterday, I should feel really, really pleased with how I did. I’ve never ever done a formal presentation before (unless you count my lamitable attempts at college where I would…
Continue readingSo, as reported yesterday, I am registered in this year’s Swimathon, to swim 1,500m (or 60 lenghs). Eeek! I also have an interview for the Electronic Editorial Office Coordinator job which I applied for just before Christmas. Tomorrow, I am…
Continue readingThat’s right, nine thousand, five hundred and forty-eight unread emails when I got to work this morning! Well, I say this morning, but it was nearly the end of the morning by the time I had got into work after…
Continue readingMy head is imploding in words and ways of saying things The two pages of my life the curriculum vitae Sit there; new and updated and the letter One side of A4 and a tangled mess of ideas of thoughts;…
Continue readingA pleasing thing occurred to me at work today. With the last bit of holiday that I’m taking off this year, this week will be the last 5-day week that I work in 2005. What follows will be a series…
Continue readingBack when dreams were dreams, and college was something in the future, I thought that Editorial or Commissioning Editor was where I was pointed. Then I did my publishing course and I tempted in some publishers and saw what goes…
Continue readingThe road ahead is on, not back. So last week, I had the finale, the curtain call to my probationary period in my new job. It was nothing that I did not know already – I have been finding the…
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Continue reading1. I am tired. I feel like, till now I haven’t really stopped for two days. Yesterday and today were taken up with a big JPM day (JPMs being Journal Publishing Managers, or ‘them-editorial-folk-who-promise-society’s-the-world-and-then-leave-us-in-production-to-figure-out-how-to-deliver’) and 46 of us from Oxford…
Continue readingA day in which I spend seven hours tucked away in a private room, doing the author corrections to a 70 page set of proofs. 70 pages all about some particular subset of geraniums in remote parts of South America….
Continue readingThis morning, seemingly a blink of an eye since it first started, the Project NellyTM series of coaching, came to a close. Bill came up to Oxford for a wrap-up session, that first involved me for, and then brought in…
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