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Oh HH I remember such days so well. I remember the 5 minute 'eat a sandwich on the trot between rehearsals' days, I remember the marking in free periods but finding that I had been given the lowest French set to supervise while one of my colleagues had a day off, I remember running from 3 floors up on one side of the road to 2 floors up on the other in the space of no minutes during offstead week, I remember the rush hour drive to work in the morning, I remember playing a hymn after the headmaster had given a 15 minute graphic talk on leprosy (could you use YOUR fingers after that?!!)I remember conducting 180 little boys playing recorders ( 3 parts the pice was) when totally deaf because of an ear problem ( actually that was probably better!!) I remember......... the day of my retirement..... oh my..... oh wow............YIPPEE It will happen HH.... in about 40 years  A |
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« Reply #331 on: 22:43:25, 13-03-2007 » |
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You are doing too much hh. Even you are young there are limits to our energies. Don't care so much and don't burn. You can not give everything 100% of yourself. One has to slide sometimes.
We are so many years later are still running. University life did not turn out the way I thought it would. It is much harder, but it has many rewards too.
It is so impressive that you can do so many things being so young, and you know so much. I think you are brilliant.
My other half had PhD in America, he had to teach and mark exams. He was irritated by marking and students, but I think he taught less and he remembers thoses years as much easier than when he had all responsibility of lecturing and pressure to publish in good journals.
Your PhD is more important now, glide the seminars at the moment. I am sure you give students a lot anyway.
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« Reply #332 on: 22:47:45, 13-03-2007 » |
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Thanks A and t-p.
It's just a little galling when you realise that you have so much to give in terms of commitment and ideas, but can't find a job.
And there are some of your colleagues who don't seem to give a crap about the students or the department, who don't seem to have any kind of commitment even to the courses that they teach, and absolutely no new ideas (just the same old lecture courses delivered in almost the same way for the last 20 years) who are being paid serious salaries to come in every now and then, publish some research once in a blue moon, but that's OK. They're worth their salaries. I'm sure as hell not.
It's the end of our term on Friday, which has meant that everything's been a bit rushed (and I haven't even thought about the other exam I've been asked to set), but it also means that I'm going to have some time to focus on ME for a change.
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It's just a little galling when you realise that you have so much to give in terms of commitment and ideas, but can't find a job.
High Five! And there are some of your colleagues who don't seem to give a crap about the students or the department, who don't seem to have any kind of commitment even to the courses that they teach, and absolutely no new ideas (just the same old lecture courses delivered in almost the same way for the last 20 years)
I used to refer to my own Alma Mater as the [names removed to protect the guilty] Retirement Home for Unimaginative Tutors. but it also means that I'm going to have some time to focus on ME for a change.
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« Reply #334 on: 07:51:23, 14-03-2007 » |
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People know who is good and who isnot. Opportunities present themselves. One has to be active. Also there are many music departments in UK and there is America too with loads of departments. Also there are other opportinities outside college. If one is active one finds it. It is not easy of course. They do value Ph.D still.
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« Reply #335 on: 22:12:24, 14-03-2007 » |
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Reasons to be gumpy...
1. I left the office at 7.00 tonight
2. In the 11 hours I had at the hell-station today, 10 were taken up doing stuff at the last minute for people who had not been bothered to do a good enough job first time round, and I didn't managed to get all I had planned to done in the other hour (quelle surprize!)
3. I got home at 9.00 after being cramped between two persons of a larger stature on the train.
4. My family are off at relatives for a few days, so I am all alone.
5. I keep singing "Dooby dooby doo" to the tune of Strangers in the Night. I am really annoying myself.
But on the positive side of things I can now listen to something else on the radio / gramophone
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« Reply #336 on: 22:31:32, 14-03-2007 » |
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It is annoying to be alone after one is used to have a family there.
I am listening to Mulove playing Bach on listen again. It is good. I used to think she was mechanical.
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« Reply #337 on: 22:38:48, 14-03-2007 » |
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Thanks t-p.
I really didn't like what I heard of Mullova last night - neither authentic or modern (and it seemed to avoid the best of both worlds), and nothing grabbed me.
But there's no accounting for taste!
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« Reply #338 on: 22:40:46, 14-03-2007 » |
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Not mechanical, so much as cold. Mullova the Ice Maiden, I always used to think. Wouldn't like to cross swords with her...
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« Reply #339 on: 22:48:22, 14-03-2007 » |
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Yes, I agree with you, she is cold. She used to play all notes so perfect I thought (intonation etc). Now I hear some wrong sounds a few times. I could not understand if it was scratching or something else.
Apparently Mulove got very good review for the concert.
I don't like to say she plays badly because obviously there is a lot of skills that she has, but I don't buy her CDs.
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« Reply #340 on: 23:06:26, 14-03-2007 » |
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I have a niggle, not a rant. I'm too tired to rant.
My girlfriend always leaves it until after midnight to ring me.
'Why don't you ring her?'
She leaves her phone in her room (I know!) most of the time, and she doesn't like to leave a group of people in order to talk to me (she might miss something).
That's my only niggle.
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« Reply #341 on: 23:09:01, 14-03-2007 » |
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« Reply #342 on: 09:32:31, 15-03-2007 » |
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I have a niggle, not a rant. I'm too tired to rant.
My girlfriend always leaves it until after midnight to ring me.
'Why don't you ring her?'
She leaves her phone in her room (I know!) most of the time, and she doesn't like to leave a group of people in order to talk to me (she might miss something).
That's my only niggle.
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« Reply #343 on: 10:38:28, 15-03-2007 » |
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After getting broadband on Monday and solving a technical problem on Tuesday, it broke down completely on Wednesday morning. Another long phone call to India that evening. I even had to look around for a screwdriver and take the phone socket off (all whilst on the phone). No luck and still down on Thursday. They now say it will take between 24 and 48 hours to fix. If that fails then an engineer will have to call round. What with the weekend, I could be down for about five days, after only having just got it. I thought it would save my phone bill but I'm spending a lot phoning them. It ought to be free support, especially so early into the contract. BT? Blooming Trouble. Grumpy rant over. Until the next time... |
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« Reply #344 on: 11:13:53, 15-03-2007 » |
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I wish you hadn't said that, Tony, because I had a lot of trouble with Orange, and changed to BT! I spent a fortune on Orange helplines, technical support etc.
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