(I love meeting new students, I love getting to share all the exciting things we can do for them, but gosh it takes all my peopling energy, I am a husk when I get home.)

It's the time of year when I implore you to be nice to anyone working in higher education (academic and admin/professional services staff, including librarians!) We are *BUSY* and having to be *VERY FRIENDLY* which is exhausting.

it's my daughter's birthday and I ordered her a monster cake from Carvel and this is the picture on the website and this is the picture of it in real life. please note: this is not a complaint. if this had been the picture on the website i would have paid more

Really enjoyed Ludwig, good fun from start to finish. My only criticism is that lovely though Ella Bruccoleri (of Call the Midwife fame) is, that was the worst American accent I have heard in some time. So bad that I was convinced it was a clue.

I think if it was me (and I'm probably not senior enough to be in this position) I would try a combination of: nice spaces, ways that library staff can support students (and teaching and research staff?), and resources (perhaps benchmarking other institutions or trying to explain why they're good?)

I tried doing it while walking when I was injured, but it was too weird to be constantly told to speed up and run.

I do tend to have a think about phrases. In orthopaedics I often try out 3 and 5 for things like hip* adj3 fractur* - to get fractures of the hip, hip and knee fractures etc. I don't tend to go above 8. But it is more of an art than a science!

Once again, my attempts to get back into running are being fuelled 50% by watching my Strava fitness graph 📈 and 50% by not wanting to let fictional perfect cinnamon roll Sam Yao down. Zombies, Run! is an amazing motivator, I really recommend it. zrx.app

Breaking news: Maggie Smith dies at 89. The Oscar-winning British actress enchanted audiences in the Harry Potter films and ‘Downton Abbey.’

Maggie Smith, ebullient scene-stealer of stage and screen, dies at 89

The British actress won Oscars for “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” and “California Suite” and enchanted audiences as a professorial witch in the Harry Potter movies and the sly dowager countess on the...

Just arranged 4 x 2 teaching sessions across 8 weeks, 2 presenters each, to work for 6 calendars (4 presenters, 2 rooms), mixture of online and in person with different timings. I deserve a medal (or at least a nap).