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Date: 29 March 2005 09:47:06
he did tell me they weren't going to put our names on the service sheet, but I'd forgotten. This is one of those things that are such a joy in married life - yes, I told you, no, you didn't.
Our department is closed today and often this means all the lights in the corridors are off and always this means the secretaries and technicians aren't in. Of course, I could easily get on with something at the office but I think discretion being the better part of valour, I'm going to play it safe and do some lovely marking at home. Four projects and about 12 essays should keep me busy, but I've also got some saved TV and radio to catch up on...
Currently reading: The Silent Traveller in Edinburgh, by Chiang Yee. A slightly obscure but really fascinating set of travel books, written between the 1930s and 1940s, this one is set in wartime Edinburgh, when the author, an exiled Chinese artist and writer, compares Scottish and Chinese history, architecture, and landscapes. It's interesting to be the "young" country for a change as he talks about Chinese history hundreds of years earlier than the British history he compares it to.
Just finished: A Nice Girl like Me, by Abigail Bosanko. I bought this after liking her previous book - I wasn't quite convinced it was as good - I think the heroine was not as interesting intellectually as the previous one - but I especially enjoyed the whisky information, and to some extent the description of life "after happily ever after" rang some bells (if you've read it, don't worry, lots of it is nothing like us, and if you haven't, I won't give it away).