Last Lecture

I won’t be graduating until June, but because of the way my course works my last lecture is tomorrow morning.  Next semester I’ll be going on an exchange to France (more about that later though), so with the exception of exams in January and a week of presentations in May, this week is essentially my [...]

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Back… home?

For the first time in 15 months, I’m in England.  And guess what – it’s raining!
Well not now, but it was earlier.  But that’s not the point anyway, and even if it was, you have to laugh about it, otherwise you’d cry.  But this isn’t exactly a joyous ‘homecoming’.  I can’t say I missed England much [...]

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Solitary sojourns of my mind

Earlier today, while lying on my bed listening to the strains of Pascale Picard’s Gate 22 on the radio and watching a trio of flies who had found their way in through my open window and were lazily buzzing through the hot air in a rectangular pattern a few inches below my ceiling, I began thinking about [...]

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Pronto!

This weekend was a pretty busy one – I left France on Saturday morning, spent the day with my family in Switzerland and then attended a wedding in Italy from Sunday to Wednesday. I took two days off work, which was a welcome break, plus I had a third ‘free’ day [...]

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Long-lost Friends

Any TCK knows how it feels to say goodbye to a friend, whether it’s because the friend moves or the TCK himself moves. Either way, even if you manage to keep in touch via the myriad of tools we now have at our fingertips such as facebook or msn, nothing can [...]

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