The Museum Doctor: Archive

New Years Resolutions

Professional Have two more papers in review by Easter Seek more freelance work Get more teaching experience (Open University?) Personal Lose a few pounds/do more exercise Do some serious decluttering - reduce possessions Learn to draw Visit a new place once per month (funds permitting) - town/city/venue

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Dec 30th

Lace Jewelry Frames →

Hate the frame, but interesting idea.

Dec 29th

Glad it’s not just me. TUMBLR GODS! ARE YOU LISTENING?! suitcaseheart: amyjanebexplainsall: I heart posts I like and then ‘unheart’ them when I reblog them. Or at least I did until yesterday. Tumblr won’t let me anymore - hearted posts stay ‘hearted’ regardless of how many times I click on them. I’m getting confused over what I have blogged and what I’ve saved for later. *grumpy* i do...

Dec 29th

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CFP: dark/death/thanatourism, NYC April 21-22,... →

Dec 29th

I heart posts I like and then ‘unheart’ them when I reblog them. Or at least I did until yesterday. Tumblr won’t let me anymore - hearted posts stay ‘hearted’ regardless of how many times I click on them. I’m getting confused over what I have blogged and what I’ve saved for later. *grumpy*

Dec 29th

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The loneliness network (The Boston Globe) →

Seems happiness is contagious too! thingstocheckout: psychotherapy: The holiday season is entering the home stretch, but flu season is just getting going. And so, we’re warned, the upcoming New Year’s parties and homeward airplane trips and visits to the mall to return our gifts won’t just mean encounters with crowds, they will mean opportunities for infection. But even as public health...

Dec 29th

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CFP: JUPTRR Dark Tourism Issue →

Really? I shall have to check it out when I’m back in Lesta! I have grand plans of setting up a museums/communism research network at some point… thingstocheckout: (via amyjanebexplainsall) my MA dissertation was on museums of communism and dealt a lot with dark tourism. hmm….

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CFP: JUPTRR Dark Tourism Issue →

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If truth be told...

…I’m stlll rather disturbed that my external examiner thought my thesis was ‘revisionist’ (in the bad, naive kinda way). Did she read it?

Dec 28th

“All reactionaries are paper tigers. In appearance, the reactionaries are...”

– Mao Zedong, “Talk with the American Correspondent Anna Louise Strong” (August 1946) (via redguard) (via bebelestrange)

Dec 28th

Miserable bastards! I may have to take my business elsewhere… billnewsinger: I was amazed to hear that the shop workers in my local Sainsbury’s on Queens Road, were having to work on Boxing Day with no enhanced rate of pay and no time off in lieu. Sainsbury’s is a huge international organisation run by billionaires.

Dec 28th