no excuses now
Posted on December 20th, 2004, under Academia
as i nurse my deloris-induced hangover (thank you ons for sharing your exquisite taste as usual) and struggle to write a review of books totalling 1276 pages (a word for every page?), the university informs me that i am now officially an early career researcher with $9 000 to burn next year. look out world, here I come.
On December 20th, 2004 at 2:57 pm, josh said:
$9k? Lucky duck. Hookers and coke roadies? And to think I just found out we’ve scrapped our Early Career Researcher scheme in favour of something else. Just as well I suppose, especially considering I had this idea earlier in the year I was trying to get support for to build a KITT-like motorcycle by couching its development in some rhetoric about exploring the links between mobility, transportable media and wireless networks. It was just an attempt to build a smart motorcycle though…
On December 20th, 2004 at 5:53 pm, Mel said:
Would it leap chasms, engine roaring? Would it say, “Josh, you seem upset. Is something wrong?” to which you’d reply, “No, Mobtron, I was just thinking…”
That off-the-cuff comment makes me think the most troublesome and funding-intensive part of your proposed project would be coming up with a suitably acronymic name for the thing. Oh! Oh! How about VRMMM! Virtual Robotic Mobile Media Module.
On December 20th, 2004 at 6:02 pm, josh said:
I don’t know about ‘VRMMM’; it doesn’t sound very manly or death-defying. I was thinking something more along the lines of Harold or Dave but you raise a very good point about the need to find a suitable acronym. Then again, if I had some seed funding I could pay an RA to brainstorm.
On December 20th, 2004 at 7:44 pm, jean said:
naaaaa, use the seed funding for preliminary ethnographic research to enusre you adequately situate the study in contemporary motorcycle culture - i.e. big fat road trip.
On December 20th, 2004 at 8:09 pm, josh said:
Jean you’re a dead set genius.
On December 20th, 2004 at 9:24 pm, jean said:
finally, he notices
On December 20th, 2004 at 10:39 pm, Ian said:
Deloris also robbed me of my stomach lining.
After the show (and I was somewhat brutalised at the show - did I stop making sense? I hope not - thanks for coming Mel, thanks for coming Josh) the party moved to Rics Cafe where, for the third night in a row, those seemingly harmless gentlemen *made* me drink until the sun came up.
And they say god looks after fools and drunks. Well I think he must be extra, extra, extra kind to drunken fools as he showered me with luck over the weekend. There are many examples but none greater than the fact that I left my backpack under a table at Rics (outside)last night and said backpack contained a wallet holding every record I’ve ever loved and Marcus from Deloris’ camera AND I got it back this morning. I swear, I almost cried when it was safely located.
I also learnt why you have salt before a tequila shot. If you’d like to learn why, I do not recommend doing a tequila shot without salt. I recommend asking someone who has been stupid enough to try it.
On December 21st, 2004 at 9:51 am, mc gregg said:
I’m pretty sure I made no sense the whole time I was at the show. I blame the air-conditioning.
Those boys are trouble. And they sound so innocent on their album…
Plus I think Marcus is way ahead in the ‘tips for picking up chicks’ stakes. That camera, casually thrown over his skinny rock shoulder… oh yeah. He was even making certain usually assured boys question themselves.
On December 21st, 2004 at 9:54 am, josh said:
Jeebus must have been smiling on you Ian - as Mel’s just pointed out, that camera was part of Marcus’ rock cred.
Did I mention I had a massive young-man crush on him?
On December 21st, 2004 at 2:20 pm, Glen Fuller said:
Fuck yeah! Well done Mel! I suggest you might have to set aside some dosh for a quick visit to syds!!! Yeehaa!
‘Early career researcher’!! Does that go on your business card?
With regards to the maintenance or scrapping of schemes and associated titles… We should start up a union or guild or something and demand that the ‘academy’ adopts a similar scheme of titles as they have in the film industry ‘academy’. Nothing changes much, except when new titles are added and within the field of power where the titles mean something they really do mean something. I would be content to be known as a gaffer - Gaffer Glen.
On December 22nd, 2004 at 2:33 pm, Mel said:
Oooooh, if you’re a Gaffer can I be a Best Boy?