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Anniversary Words13 comments

harvestbird wrote 11 months ago: Sas marks the first anniversary of her blog this weekend.  My hunch is that the first year of any bl … more →

Tags: in Aotearoa, meta-diarist, O internet, Anniversaries, Blogging, blogs

Hogwarts Revisited6 comments

harvestbird wrote 11 months ago: A former student of mine contacted me some time ago to say her parents would be coming out from Keny … more →

Tags: in Aotearoa, Teaching & Learning, Graduation

Plus, I got depression3 comments

harvestbird wrote 11 months ago: Let's talk about my feelings Señor Mojito [yesterday]: You don’t have some terrible childh … more →

Tags: At Home, WE ARE FAMILY, Achewood, Christmas, high-functioning depressive, home life, Roast Beef

H-Bird's World of Things 29 comments

harvestbird wrote 11 months ago: Plighted Troth Does not shoot laser beams or hypnotise the viewer This is my engagement ring, on my … more →

Tags: in Aotearoa, WE ARE FAMILY, Engagement Ring, Feminism, Jewellery

H-Bird's World of Things 15 comments

harvestbird wrote 11 months ago: Everybody is Fat and Hairy, with Yellow Teeth The Famous Arch, 2006 version Once a month I go to a b … more →

Tags: At Home, in Aotearoa, Beauty, Commerce

808s, Pink Robots and Aesthetics11 comments

harvestbird wrote 1 year ago: When I am lecturing, I use whatever examples I think will be useful to analogise new ideas.  Sometim … more →

Tags: Kanye West, Flaming Lips, auto-tune, Aesthetics

Pas n'importe où, juste en dessous32 comments

harvestbird wrote 1 year ago: I have intermediate French.  What this means in practice is a few things.  Before I can say somethin … more →

Tags: O internet, At Home, French, Gainsbourg, translation

Comical reflections6 comments

harvestbird wrote 1 year ago: While my estemeed fellow bloggers at Frugal Me strive for thriftiness in all things, I trust they wi … more →

Tags: O internet, WE ARE FAMILY, Wondermark, thrift, Competition, Marriage, Rickroll, ExtraLife

A change is going to come7 comments

harvestbird wrote 1 year ago: I know a change is going to come Accounts of the other election across the Pacific mention elated vo … more →

Tags: in Aotearoa, O internet, election, Reaction

This life political5 comments

harvestbird wrote 1 year ago: If you’ve met me, you probably know my politics, which are also easily gleaned from even the m … more →

Tags: in Aotearoa, Poetry, election

My interest in the advertised position4 comments

harvestbird wrote 1 year ago: A letter in today’s post advises me that I have not been shortlisted for the lecturing job at … more →

Tags: At Home, Dogs, in Aotearoa, Teaching & Learning, WE ARE FAMILY, Moving, Staying, Work

A foggy fair go6 comments

harvestbird wrote 1 year ago: Both Señor Mojito and I work in environments with an international majority–he in the private … more →

Tags: Teaching & Learning, Culture, Law, Propriety

Cultural Difference12 comments

harvestbird wrote 1 year ago: Between the two buildings where most of our teaching happens, there is a trail of cigarette butts so … more →

Tags: Teaching & Learning, Students, smoking, boundaries

The author on drugs8 comments

harvestbird wrote 1 year ago: I have been taking Citalopram for almost three months, replacing fourteen years on Paroxetine, a dru … more →

Tags: Depression, Anti-Depressants

My Farnsworth Parabox*2 comments

harvestbird wrote 1 year ago: I am not without classical nerdiness.  I spent one summer as an undergraduate at the flat of some of … more →

Tags: Dogs, Teaching & Learning, At Home, WE ARE FAMILY, Employment, Choices, Career, Dog Breeding

The evolution of my vanity6 comments

harvestbird wrote 1 year ago: Should the people I have known in various eras of my life ever assemble and compare observations abo … more →

Tags: Teaching & Learning, At Home, hair, Hair straighteners, Style

Cross-pollination5 comments

harvestbird wrote 1 year ago: I have non-teaching time, at this, the sweetest time of year.  Most of Concrete University, and much … more →

Tags: in Aotearoa, O internet, Teaching & Learning, the social round, Writing Research, Reading, Teaching, Travelling, writing

Creating the next generation1 comment

harvestbird wrote 1 year ago: My bitches are in season, or coming into season, and this time around it’s Evie’s turn.  … more →

Tags: the social round, Dogs, Breeding

All our strength and all our sweetness/Lord I miss you6 comments

harvestbird wrote 1 year ago: I am listening, as I write, to the Rolling Stones, whose oeuvre from the 70s and 80s is a window int … more →

Tags: At Home, WE ARE FAMILY, paroxetine, citalopram


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