Just to let everyone know that I am doing good. Lots of lovely people have been quite worried about my situation at work and financially, I am alive and although no closer to finding answers about whether I will get another job in the ‘new structure’, today has been a good day. We have dug [...]
All posts for the month March, 2011
We are Library Ninjas
I have had an uncontrollable urge to rebrand myself a Library Ninja. Why? Because trying to sell yourself as a librarian in the traditional sense doesn’t work. What one truly is, is a librarian. What one will always be, is a librarian. Why try and hide this? Apart from the open-minded, dedicated library users, and [...]
Posted by Chris on 24/03/2011
http://christophergower.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/we-are-library-ninjas/
Cycling in Exeter: One Man’s Quest to Get Fit
Day One. Getting fit. There are many things in my life that tell me that I need to get fit. My legs are the first thing, they ache if I climb a hill that is little more than an incline and proceed to tell me constantly that my knee joints are not as good as [...]
Posted by Chris on 21/03/2011
http://christophergower.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/cycling-in-exeter-one-mans-quest-to-get-fit/
(Rant) An Open Letter to The Telesales Industry.
Dear Heartless Miserable Gits, I have just got off the phone from a man who was insistent in selling me electricity from EDF. He made a good case and was quite convincing, in fact it was so well constructed he caught me in his trap. However, the one thing you have to remember with people [...]
Posted by Chris on 15/03/2011
http://christophergower.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/rant-an-open-letter-to-the-telesales-industry/
Poetic Constipation: Writers Block and times of distress.
I am suffering from a very severe condition. It is unforgiving and to a writer it is most probably the worst thing that can happen to you. Writers Block. On Friday the entire deparment was called in to a classroom and told in no uncertain terms, well actually we were told in a hours worth [...]
Posted by Chris on 09/03/2011
http://christophergower.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/poetic-constipation-writers-block-and-times-of-distress/
Afghanistan: Exhibition at the British Museum. A review.
So I am up in London on business, my battery on my phone is flat and I am haunting the Starbucks right outside the gates like some consumerist apologist with no regard for those walking past going ‘look at that tit in the window with his laptop’. This trip was my last ever London visit [...]
Posted by Chris on 03/03/2011
http://christophergower.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/afghanistan-exhibition-at-the-british-museum-a-review/
A Fairy Tale: The College Lecturer who didn’t use the Learning Centre.
The following is based on a letter that appeared in the TES by a lecturer called Stephen Jones. http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6071215 Once upon a time, there was a college lecturer who liked his staff room. He had all the gadgets and money that he could ever want, and never went outside. One day, he heard that libraries [...]
Posted by Chris on 02/03/2011
http://christophergower.wordpress.com/2011/03/02/a-fairy-tale-the-college-lecturer-who-didnt-use-the-learning-centre/
The writing of Solomon Doornails- The Paranoia of Performance (for Bryony) 01/05/2012 Chris
- Thurty (for Tori) 15/04/2012 Chris
- Life 14/04/2012 Chris
- Manflu 05/03/2012 Chris
- Seagulls 29/02/2012 Chris
- I 28/02/2012 Chris
- Eating Chocolate 20/02/2012 Chris
- Steven Seagal 19/02/2012 Chris
- Two Pence 19/02/2012 Chris
- Swimming As Nature Intended 19/02/2012 Chris
