Well, small ones. But I care :)
Today I finally managed to get a poster designed and approved for the upcoming conference. With all the back and forthing and umming and ahing combined with the general annoyance at not being able to use the Centre's new cool logo (designed by Sarah, for she is both pretty *and* leet), I was beginning to think it would never get done (which is bad). But a cunning trick was devised (which is good). Our logo has been doctored so as to become (temporarily, I hope) the logo of another NZ-EU type organisation that just happens to be part-funding the conference (Martin is the President of said organisation. Convenient? Yes...). Ahah! So the image gets out and about, it's not as if anyone will necessarily remember the name attached, and when the University eventually sees sense and lets us operate with our own separate logo, no real harm will have been done to the integrity of our own "brand framework" (mutter grumble bitch moan).
Take that, marketing managers! (Well *I* thought it was cunning...)
Across the carpark, the Pols department is a strange place to be nowadays. With neither Tim, James or myself kicking aimlessly round the corridors, it is devoid of the life, energy and pure joy of living wot touches all things that find themselves in the mere presence of a TBALC associate. Ooo, and the dedication. Claire and Corey are still around, as are the newcomers, but it's just not the same, (no offence, guys), and they'll be gone soon enough as well. Of course, this void of us will only remain until Tim decides that he was right all along and the Real World (tm) isn't worth a damn, and then back to the hallowed halls he will flee to hide out in his own ivory, or possibly beige, tower. Soulfully observing all the cleavage-muffins who happen past his lonely vigil...
Which I suppose is unlikely. (Well, unlikely that this will be done either (a) from an ivory tower or (b) soulfully.) So I think the department will be safe from our pernicious influence for a little while longer.
Um, something something... Oh yeah, you should all come along to the new show that'll hit a Unviersity Theatre near you sometime near the end of July. "'Tween Heaven and Hell" is an original musical, written and directed by Corey Matthews, and which is dodgy in the extreme. So maybe I take that "you should come along" missive back. Hmm, we'll see. Anyway, Ben is in it (as the trombone player, not the White Rabbit) and I'll be somewhere out the back with the headset on, saying things like "lights go on, lights go off" and similar. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll wear that slightly puzzled expression as you wonder how they mnaged to get some of this stuff past the musoc censors...
Other than that, not a lot to report. Things and stuff and the like are pretty good for the most part. Flah.
Posted by saint at July 6, 2004 06:14 PM | TrackBack