Academics. When we're not teaching, we're researching. And when we're neither teaching nor researching, we're probably writing. And when we've run out of things to do there (??as if??) it is back to the grind of the grant rounds.
I'm trying for a small one that will hopefully help me get my longish-running history project into final shape--the one that has taken me from Canberra to Tokyo to Wakayama and Brisbane and back. Hopefully I'll be able to get in a trip to Thursday Island where this Japanese emissary also visited in the 1890s.
One can only hope.
So today was all about finessing the last bits and pieces for the project. A quiet afternoon in the office.
Thing still looked pretty much the same outside the window...
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| Saturday:photo play day |
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| Over the bridge |
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| The big and the small of it |
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| Reflected clouds/actual clouds |
Until a rather unexpected shower came through just before home time.
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| Gathering clouds |
And just as every day outside the office window offers something of the familiar. truths, the project will get done with or without the grant...it would just be nice if...
We keep hoping. We keep writing. We keep working.
[Camera : Lumix TZ-85, 2.25pm-2.33pm, 4.07pm; 29 October 2016]
