tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post7920354285882979316..comments2023-08-18T19:57:30.372+10:00Comments on humanities researcher: Big Sickness, Little SicknessThis old world is a new worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11567163294720510335noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-74075422147414472992007-06-14T12:58:00.000+10:002007-06-14T12:58:00.000+10:00Used to share a room with a Chinese colleague and ...Used to share a room with a Chinese colleague and she insisted on facing the door even though it meant putting her back to our whiteboard where most of the discussion goes on. Feng shui or just that it makes sense to do what is feels both more natural for the room's occupant and visitors.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13539062417425067194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-21052694067687105402007-06-12T16:41:00.000+10:002007-06-12T16:41:00.000+10:00Nici! Hi!! how lovely to hear from you! How are th...Nici! Hi!! how lovely to hear from you! How are the twins? and Romona? Your office sounds rather grand, I must say...<BR/><BR/>Maria, thanks to you and your family for these good wishes; the kindness of friends and strangers has made this year so much easier to bear. <BR/><BR/>BWCA, glad to hear your friend has come through: Tamoxifen seems to be a very powerful and efficacious drug, but I have This old world is a new worldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567163294720510335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-82179019518451108342007-06-11T21:36:00.000+10:002007-06-11T21:36:00.000+10:00I read The Age feature and am just swinging by bec...I read The Age feature and am just swinging by because you also read one of my favorite blogs Pavlov's Cat.<BR/>I understand what you are going through as my friend has experienced it all too.<BR/>She is now safely beyond her Tamoxifen phase and you will come out the other end too.<BR/>Very best wishes for your full recovery, much love and peace to you from me.Ann ODynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01159263330547329077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-77200220616337400292007-06-11T19:12:00.000+10:002007-06-11T19:12:00.000+10:00Dear Stephanie, what a wonderful piece in the Sund...Dear Stephanie, what a wonderful piece in the Sunday Age, a lot of my friends and family read it and said to wish you all the very best. Funnily enough, it also inspired a 'teaching moment' of my own as I had to explain to my Eastern European grandparents what a blog actually was ('like a journal... but public... on the internet...no, not a person! etc) but they thought the tangible, hard copy herovertherehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18091154483622165858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-61260925812356451572007-06-11T16:08:00.000+10:002007-06-11T16:08:00.000+10:00Warm thanks for the link, Stephanie!xxWarm thanks for the link, Stephanie!<BR/>xxPhiliphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18062266435110939076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-12185215596471481762007-06-11T14:54:00.000+10:002007-06-11T14:54:00.000+10:00Dear Stephanie, so shocked to see your face in the...Dear Stephanie, so shocked to see your face in the paper, so sad to read of the year you've had. <BR/><BR/>I sit in an open plan office these days, with my back to blinding northerly views of the city.<BR/>My desk is on an awkward angle on a corner of a tower and I see people coming from all directions. I like it that way. <BR/><BR/>I understand exactly what you mean about the lost boy from Nicihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14498593449149477790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-54727956190699180182007-06-11T10:51:00.000+10:002007-06-11T10:51:00.000+10:00JJC, WL and PC, I'm lucky enough to have an office...JJC, WL and PC, I'm lucky enough to have an office with enough space for some more comfy low chairs and a coffee table, for the more friendly type of chat, and for meetings, too. When I've got it arranged to my satisfaction, I'll post a photo. The desk on an angle is completely radical, JJC! And yes, getting pictures put up and getting extension cords for the ethernet cable, etc. is a major This old world is a new worldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567163294720510335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-85868649605822538182007-06-10T21:23:00.000+10:002007-06-10T21:23:00.000+10:00Dear Stephanie. Hi I have left messages all over t...Dear Stephanie. Hi I have left messages all over the place and you probably won't even remember me which does not matter because I remember you! So sorry to hear about the cancer which hopefully has been and gone now. I had to start my own blog and accidentally pressed "Publish" and now it is out there. Pretty scarey. It is called Older woman or Christina-older woman. Couldn't think of anything christinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00488182179919394222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-70697756020347434622007-06-10T18:32:00.000+10:002007-06-10T18:32:00.000+10:00This comment has been removed by the author.Chat Noirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04962361595354987431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-75540557636857778802007-06-10T17:29:00.000+10:002007-06-10T17:29:00.000+10:00I am thinking of you under these new geometrical c...I am thinking of you under these new geometrical circumstances, Stephanie, and it pleases me (even without taking into account your necessary avoidance of - eek! - Evolution).<BR/><BR/>The Sunday Age is also good news.Philiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18062266435110939076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-54101290266383488902007-06-08T12:35:00.000+10:002007-06-08T12:35:00.000+10:00I decided fairly early in my academic days that 'f...I decided fairly early in my academic days that 'friendly' wasn't the relationship that was necessarily always required with students, so I used to try to set up the furniture in such a way as to be able to choose between 'friendly' (me in a chair away from the desk with no barrier between me and the student(s) or other visitor(s)) and 'more official and authoritative' (me firmly behind the desk)Kerryn Goldsworthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11270814460793882309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-12189987891839415762007-06-08T08:50:00.000+10:002007-06-08T08:50:00.000+10:00My department is housed in a reasonably new buildi...My department is housed in a reasonably new building with scary conformist furniture so that all desks are along the wall, and no moving of furniture is allowed. Our Dean, who is very strict, comes and inspects the offices twice a year to make sure there has been no unauthorised moving of furnitures, and no accumulation of flamable material (i.e. books and papers). We may hang pictures, but only WhatLadderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11603489349164511704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-65739125070004718172007-06-07T22:57:00.000+10:002007-06-07T22:57:00.000+10:00I didn't start to sit behind a desk that faces out...I didn't start to sit behind a desk that faces outward towards the door until I became department chair -- then I had to, because the office is too small to arrange any other way. I partially solved the problem of having a Hadrian's Wall between me and my interlocutor by placing the desk at an angle that slants away from the door. This slightly askew arrangement is somewhat disconcerting to thoseJeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.com