2012-12-20

strange_complex: (Obelix boar)
2012-12-20 03:50 pm
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Right! I am basically declaring it Christmas. Had e-bloody-nough of work now, thanks. Tools down!

This post is part of a regular series made largely for my own benefit. You can pretty much scroll right past.

Teaching
Roman World - met with one student about her assignment.
Had lunch / a debriefing session about last week's conference with one of my PhD students and his co-supervisor.

Admin
Wrote descriptions of our new JH ClasCiv programmes so that they can be advertised to applicants.

Research
Made some further (rather slow and painful) progress on my AHRC application.

Other
Went into work specially for a training session, which then had to be cancelled because the server hosting the software we were supposed to be being trained on was down - gah!
Started work on a school talk about Ostia which I will be delivering in January.

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strange_complex: (Augustus)
2012-12-20 05:11 pm

Day 20- One Christmas wish.

Above all, that at least one of the funding applications which I have currently in the pipeline or in the process of being written comes off, so that I can relax about my prospects of carrying out my Augustus project successfully. Ideally, I need funding for both a) the bimillennium conference and b) further sabbatical time, so my big Christmas wish is for any combination of research grants which achieves that. But if I must choose, I would prioritise the conference funding, because I already have some sabbatical time - but I have nothing for the conference yet (eek!).

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