I moved everything

My myspace blog went completely to crap and I've had error messages for days and days, so I moved all the old entries over to here. I think it looks prettier and is easier to read and mess about with!

Today everybody is moving in and out of my house and I wasn't really very impressed with the amount of cleaning and clearing of crap I had to do.

I went to a talk this morning about academic publishing. It was actually really interesting: basically, how can it work as a commercial enterprise work when there's 1) way more supply than demand 2) people don't want to pay to have their work published, yet there's a move towards free access to research 3) publication is necessary for RAE and for career advancement 4) digital publication can be way cheaper, but it has all sorts of access and reading issues attached to it. I have lots of thoughts about all this and they're not very coherent yet. It was really interesting given what I heard the other week at the conference that in Germany you have to publish your thesis as a monograph before you're even entitled to call yourself doctor! Also, I got a free lunch today.

Yesterday, I went to my refresher training to go back to my old campaign at work (it was incredibly boring and pointless). I think my new housemate is starting work on Monday too so that should be really fun! I'm working five days next week so I'm not going to get any thesis work done. But I should be able to pay my gas bill soon.

I also had a crazy celebrity dream: I was escaping from some kind of nuclear apocalypse in a convertible, which was driven by someone who turned out to be Salman Rushdie!

This is my jaywalker so far: it's so bright!