morsla: (Dawn)
I'm back at work again, after a week on the west coast of New Zealand's South Island. It's the first proper holiday that I've taken in quite some time, and my first trip outside Australia since 2007. I'll write a bit more about it later in the week, when the trip has had time to sink in properly. This time last week, [livejournal.com profile] aeliel and I had spent the day seeking out waterfalls in Arthur's Pass. A few days later, we climbed up onto Franz Joseph glacier and walked through temperate rainforest. It took me a world away from the towering backlog of work on my desk.

Right at the moment, I'm looking a bit further back into the past - browsing through old journal entries that have been tagged and left for a future rainy day. I love reading through through old entries sometimes... I often feel like I'm becoming less eloquent with age; language skills deteriorating from a shortening attention span and an over-reliance on Twitter.

This entry describes exactly how I'm feeling at the moment: extremely painful neck and shoulders, leaving me unable to turn my head, and making it difficult to sleep. It also has a handy recommendation from [livejournal.com profile] kitling for an Osteopath.

It's dated April 2005. I guess it's probably about time I went and did something about it...

I've also checked to make sure they're still in business, and was pleasantly surprised to find that Andrew's details come up in the first few hits from Google.
morsla: (nope)
Feels like I'm trying to keep lots of things in the air at the moment. I suspect that the next month will only get more hectic from here.

I'm now in the interview phase for my PhD. This means that I need to find people running small businesses and using social media - of any type (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, blogs, forums, Last.FM, posterous, YouTube, Tumblr, etc). I've split the sample into three groups: 10 each of Hospitality, Retail and Services.

I have about ten so far, and need more. I'm sending out more emails this week, but will probably still need another 15 after that. Ideally, I need to interview them before the end of September. If you know anyone who might fit into the project, please let me know. I'm hoping to get all 30 from the greater Melbourne area, but may need to look further afield if I have trouble filling the quota.

Next week, I fly up to Brisbane for the CRC participants' meeting. I think I'll head up on Tuesday night, as I need to be there before 9am on Wednesday - and the thought of a 6am flight doesn't thrill me. Should be an interesting day, with lots of different presentations happening. I'm presenting my research at 2pm, along with a few of the other students.

I took today (mostly) off work, and (mostly) managed to not work on the weekend. That's the first time in ages that I've had three days away from the various different projects. It's been awesome.

I also just bought two plane tickets to Christchurch in September. I think that a week spent climbing mountains and walking along glaciers sounds like a great way of guaranteeing that I can get some time away from work :)

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