Wednesday 18 April 2007
Dictators, Wikis, Sleep & Randomness
I have decided to blog again, partly to get my web 2.0 sites all working excitedly together, partly to see if I find blogging as therapeutic as I used to... We shall see.
Having spent the run up to Easter panicked and having sleepless nights prepping the BFFS Scotland Newsletter, Flyer and Spring Event/AGM 2007 Programme I was all calm.... And then today I realised I hadn't actually emailed anyone about the event or the wiki yet AND I hadn't posted any of the details of our Spring Event and AGM on the website yet. Doh! It's particularly silly as I want to have my newsletter editorship taken over by someone new and the AGM is pretty much my only hope so it's all in my best interests.
Thus I found myself watching The Happy Dictator on More 4 whilst updating the website. It was a fascinating look, by Januszczak, at Turkmenistan and it's gloriously strange happy dictatorship. Well worth a watch if it's on again, even if it loses a tiny bit of it's relevance now that the dictator at it's heart has died of a heart attack which must, one assumes, have meant a significant change for the country. The footage of gas crators was terrifyingly beautiful - I hope the film crew took lots of good pictures as it looked amazing even on not great quality handheld footage.
As I watched Heather fell fast asleep next to me which was fine until she awoke and sleepily sent a glass of water tumbling. If there's one thing I still find difficult about being a mature married person it's knowing how to be calm but also not patronising when you're both really really tired... I haven't mastered it yet I'm afraid. On the plus side I've cleared some of my to do list staying up later than planned since there was no rush to get to bed at the same time as my missus once she was asleep. Ah well.
Talking of my to do list... I seem to be the person people ask really really weird questions of. Makes me wonder why. I can answer some of them but why I am the person who comes to mind to ask I don't know - it's a weird range of questions: promoting to students, getting into press screenings (ok I know why I was asked about that one), where people can find DVDs and library stuff, how to make belly dance skirts and sequin chaps, how to promote services to third party websites, how many journals does SOAS have?!
Anyway. Tis late and my sleeping wife awaits me. I shall take my brain of randomness to bed and await the next weird question to come my way...
Having spent the run up to Easter panicked and having sleepless nights prepping the BFFS Scotland Newsletter, Flyer and Spring Event/AGM 2007 Programme I was all calm.... And then today I realised I hadn't actually emailed anyone about the event or the wiki yet AND I hadn't posted any of the details of our Spring Event and AGM on the website yet. Doh! It's particularly silly as I want to have my newsletter editorship taken over by someone new and the AGM is pretty much my only hope so it's all in my best interests.
Thus I found myself watching The Happy Dictator on More 4 whilst updating the website. It was a fascinating look, by Januszczak, at Turkmenistan and it's gloriously strange happy dictatorship. Well worth a watch if it's on again, even if it loses a tiny bit of it's relevance now that the dictator at it's heart has died of a heart attack which must, one assumes, have meant a significant change for the country. The footage of gas crators was terrifyingly beautiful - I hope the film crew took lots of good pictures as it looked amazing even on not great quality handheld footage.
As I watched Heather fell fast asleep next to me which was fine until she awoke and sleepily sent a glass of water tumbling. If there's one thing I still find difficult about being a mature married person it's knowing how to be calm but also not patronising when you're both really really tired... I haven't mastered it yet I'm afraid. On the plus side I've cleared some of my to do list staying up later than planned since there was no rush to get to bed at the same time as my missus once she was asleep. Ah well.
Talking of my to do list... I seem to be the person people ask really really weird questions of. Makes me wonder why. I can answer some of them but why I am the person who comes to mind to ask I don't know - it's a weird range of questions: promoting to students, getting into press screenings (ok I know why I was asked about that one), where people can find DVDs and library stuff, how to make belly dance skirts and sequin chaps, how to promote services to third party websites, how many journals does SOAS have?!
Anyway. Tis late and my sleeping wife awaits me. I shall take my brain of randomness to bed and await the next weird question to come my way...
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