We had a lovely quiet weekend - a brief visit to the local market, some reading, some office tidying, enjoying a good Sunday preach, church lunch (the key lime pie went down well - hoorah!) and a great film. We watched a fairly new HBO flick called Temple Grandin with the gorgeous Clare Danes in the lead role. It was based on the life of the eponymous title character who was born with autism. It tells of her struggles as she advances in her career, finally becoming a professor at Colorado State. It was really inspirational and cleverly narrated with little imaginative flashes.
It's careers week in the department and today D and his boss came in to talk to the students about CVs. All very jolly fun. On top of this the third years are busy with their group performances. There is A LOT of thick face makeup and lavish costumes. I love working here! I have a bit of teaching prep to do, although this term it is all really good fun - a couple of lovely option modules which I'm team teaching with some buddies and a great introductory first year course. Somewhat surprisingly, it all feels very organised! As far as research goes, I'm going to take a few hours out of teaching prep each day this week to do a bit of work on this new book proposal and a paper that I want to send off before the end of next month.
And, other than that, it's all quiet on the Warden front. I realise that I haven't posted anything particularly thought-provoking or witty or ground-breaking over the past few weeks. Sorry about that! Normal service will resume momentarily :-)
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