September 2009

I simply must inform you about last month's big happening. Sachi Jerika Lucas was born at 3.41 a.m. on the 17th September. She weighed 7 lb 1 oz or 3.22 kg. Everyone is fit and healthy and well. Slightly sleep-deprived, but.

February 2009

And just like that half a year has gone by since I last posted. Oh well, good intentions . . .

This month classes resume at Otago Polytechnic. After a year 'away' I have my own ESOL class once again. I look forward this year to resuming my student-centred, student self-directed focus. I've been struggling against the mainstreamflow to implement this approach for the last ten years. But now this paradigm is being pressed from on high (by the CEO no less) and so I dare to hope for a new dawn.

Is this the age of Aquarius?

Which Parent?

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Another morph of Iacinta and Vincent

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Rumi looks like . . .

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MyHeritage: Celebrity Morph - Family pictures - Family reunion

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are likely to require to perform their role well.

Why One to one-to-one? Well, a peer tutor typically works 1:1 with a student. And 'one' of us at the Learning Centre, William Lucas who bears a striking similarity to Benjamin McKenzie, is the person in charge (though strictly speaking, working Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, he is 0.6).

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And just to prove it wasn't a fluke (now you know what I spend my free time doing), here's another:

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June 2008

This month we're into winter, and we've had a couple of good freezes in the past week. It's been difficult to train barefoot over ice. Not because of the cold, but because of limited traction.

Anyway, this coming month I'll be a 'forced bachelor'. Mami is attending a conference in Croatia, and she will visit her family in Japan after that. Coincidentally, she was at the airport the same time as Albany, my eldest daughter, on her way to a conference in Vanuatu. They'd better make the most of it. Air travel is going to be a thing of the past.

I'm going well on my own, cooking Indian dishes for the first time in a while. Banana puri, raita, cauliflower curry and rice. Yummy! But I'd better go easy on the oil. A recent ultrasound at the hospital confirmed that I'm full of gall stones - at least a dozen. They are a good size too - one was measured at 1.4 cm!

Finally, I have dabbled with posting some recent photographs of the past year or so. If you click to see all of them, they come up in colour.

May 2008

Today I ate the last apple of the tree. It looked something like the image on the left - probably an heirloom of some sort. It didn't taste sickly sweet, in other words.

Every day for the past two months I've helped myself. The tree is on the side of someone's driveway on the way to work. I walk by in the morning and then at night, and I pluck one each time.

The owners don't touch it. They probably don't even know that it's there. The tree grows within a hundred yards of a supermarket where people buy apples in plastic every day. Weird.

Saw What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire this month too. Very, very worthwhile seeing. It helped me clarify what I want to do.

Just back from the Regent Theatre 24-hour second-hand book sale. Mami and I walked home - well, to the car - with two cartons' worth. $50 @ a dollar a pop. You can't go wrong!