The observant among you might have noticed that I haven’t written about what I’m doing here in the states yet workwise. I can assure you that this is not because I haven’t been working!!! As with any new role there was an acclimatisation period, but my work with Wired! is a bit special in that I[…]
Nickel and Dimed
As a proud and prolific book worm I am sad to say that my experience of American writers has to date been shamefully limited to reading Tom Sawyer / Huck Finn as a child then later Roll of Thunder / Of Mice and Men / Snow Falling on Ceders at school. As this is hardly[…]
Mountain Adventures
I noticed today that it’s been almost two weeks since I last wrote here. The excuse? Put plainly, I’ve been having too much fun (and travelling quite a bit, but more of that later). Part of the fun was a trip last weekend to the mountains. Janice and I accompanied by Murphy the dog made[…]
Time and tide
I have been thinking a lot about time this week, not unusual for an archaeologist you might think, but quantifying, measuring and communicating time seems to have been a bit of a theme in a number of different ways. Whether it’s through the creation of web-based object maps and timelines for students, the planning of[…]
In at the middle
With my first lecture and class done, the last two weeks have been the time for getting stuck in. Although a good number of universities in the UK have only been back a few weeks, semester is halfway done here, so I’m jumping into the middle and trying to get my head around the timetabling.[…]
Food that I’ve tried…
In no particular order of preference: 1) chicken & waffles (deep fried chicken sweet waffles side of mac&cheese) 2) fried green tomatoes (trying to work out the pop cult reference from my childhood to no avail so far…) 3) Fullsteam beer 4) Basil beer 5) Misc beer “shotgunned” (thanks Janice!) 6) Dove chocolate (rubbish –[…]
Admin & Sunshine
As the title suggests admin, pen-pushing, form-filling, contract signing and brushing up on international tax law, is what I’ve spent most of my first week here at Duke doing. The sunshine has made these tasks much more bearable, though everyone here appears to believe that regular midday temperatures of 24º and clear blue skies constitute[…]
Charting My American Adventure
So here’s the space that I’m going to record bits & bobs about my time in NC, not much to say just yet except that I am excited about travelling out now my flight is less than two weeks away. Keeping busy here in Bristol organising things for the trip, having a final catch up[…]