Thursday 12th June 2014, 11.00am (day 1,022)
“…. you mean it starts today?!”
OK, this probably isn’t the real Lionel Messi. Welcome to the blog’s first World Cup month.
Being 42
Life, one day at a time
Tag Archives: University of Manchester
Rear entrance, University Place
Tuesday 10th June 2014, 11.25am (day 1,020)
Instalment n+1 in the irregular series: “Obscure but Well-Lit Corners of the University of Manchester campus”.
Waiting to talk to people
Wednesday 4th June 2014, 12.35pm (day 1,014)
Not every photo that makes it up here is picked for artistic reasons (some would say that few of them are). The point of the choices is also to try to epitomise a day somehow. And I spent most of today in rooms, talking to people, while cruddy drizzle came down outside.
On the Manchester Museum roof
Tuesday 3rd June 2014, 10.15am (day 1,013)
Are there bees up on the museum roof (as viewed this morning from my meeting in the adjacent Arthur Lewis Building)? Or have the tropical frogs escaped? What is the builder carrying in the orange swag bag? Inquiring minds want to know.
Philosophy
Friday 23rd May 2014, 9.55am (day 1,002)
I mean, really. Did you have to cope with this kind of stuff before 10am this morning?
And bearing in mind this guy is German, a philosopher, with a brilliant mind — does he not (with all due respect) win the ‘walking cliché of the month’ award?
Revision week
Monday 19th May 2014, 11.25am (day 998)
The weather stays very fine. If one can find a piece of green space on the University campus — not always straightforward, seeing as there’s not much of it — there are far worse places to prepare for imminent exams.
Outside the library
Friday 9th May 2014, 2.30pm (day 988)
I do spend time in Manchester now and again you know, when I’m not being distracted by snails (see yesterday) then campus can be a reasonably attractive spot.
Etienne Wenger
Wednesday 30th April 2014, 12.25pm (day 979)
On average, you probably haven’t heard of this guy, but in my field he’s quite a big name. We are lucky to have him as a part-time academic at the University of Manchester. I’ve heard him talk before, he’s a very expressive speaker, so I knew it wouldn’t be too hard to catch him in some kind of animated pose. The ‘practice’ on the board behind it also makes the shot — if you know the work he does.
Kilburn building, on a quiet day
Tuesday 22nd April 2014, 10.00am (day 971)
First day in Manchester for three weeks; also the greyest, dampest day for some time. These things may or may not be connected. But it’s not yet term-time so things were much more subdued than normal.
Main entrance, Sackville Street building
Monday 24th February 2014, 4.20pm (day 914)
Monday is a regular Manchester day in term-time. Some more random campus architecture then. The Sackville building was part of UMIST until that institution was eaten up by the University of Manchester in 2004. Not for much longer though — I believe the basic plan is to sell it off fairly soon (it’s been gradually emptied over the last few years) and in the near future will probably become luxury apartments with a bar on the ground floor that prices its drinks at a level designed to ensure the plebs don’t get in.
