Sunday, June 17, 2012

Done.

My favourite photo of 2012 is this one:


In case you can't quite see it, I will transcribe a few choice quotes. The first and most important is:

"I have no hesitation in passing this thesis at a doctoral level, with no required corrections."

And to sweeten this already delicious cake:

"I have to say that of the 15 or so HDR theses I have examined in the past five years, this would be among the top two or three in terms of both the technical standard of the creative writing, and also the cohesiveness and thoroughness of the critical arguments presented in the exegesis."

I could go on and on and on, but needless to say it was all like this. 

Mele is a bright, shining beacon of intelligence, resilience, hard-work, dedication and all-round fortitude. And this thesis proves it.


Well done and congratulations, my wonderful darling. You did it!


xxx
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6 comments:

  1. MedicatedMooSunday, June 17, 2012 at 11:50:00 PM PDT

    CONGRATULATIONS! I can only sit back in awe at anyone with a PhD for their intelligence, resilience and expertise.

    I'll have a drink in her honour tonight.

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  2. RiverMonday, June 18, 2012 at 12:47:00 AM PDT

    Great news! Congratulations Mel.

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  3. AnonymousWednesday, June 20, 2012 at 8:17:00 PM PDT

    Alright, hopefully commenting works this time.

    Congratulations Mel! And no corrections, that's superhuman!

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  4. MedicatedMooThursday, June 21, 2012 at 3:00:00 AM PDT

    And here's something else you might be interested in:
    http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/music/joy-division-song-declared-greatest-in-60-years-20120621-20q2j.html

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  5. franzyThursday, June 21, 2012 at 4:50:00 AM PDT

    Thank you!
    And I've never even heard of that Dizzee Rascal song. Quite refreshing to actually get some different answers for a change.

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  6. Jonathan ShawFriday, June 22, 2012 at 7:57:00 AM PDT

    Congratulations from me and Penny, Mel. We're both in awe

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An explanation of The Joy Division Litmus Test

Although it may now be lost in the mysts of thyme, the poll below is still relevant to this blog. In the winter of 2008, Mele and I went to live in Queensland. In order to survive, I bluffed my way into a job at a Coffee Club.
It was quite a reasonable place to work: the hours were regular, the staff were quite nice, it wasn't particularly taxing on my brain.
There were a few downsides: In the six weeks or so that I worked there, there was about a 90% staff turnover (contributed to by my leaving). This wasn't seen as a result of the low pay, the laughability of staff prices or the practice of not distributing tips to staff, rather it was blamed on the lack of work ethic among Bribie Island's youth.
However, one of the stranger aspects of the cultural isolation that touched our lives during our time "up there" was the fact that nobody at my work had heard of the band Joy Division.
The full explanation is available here.
But please, interact a little further and vote in my ongoing poll. The results are slowly mounting up, proving one thing: people read this blog are more well-informed about Joy Division than anyone who works at the Coffee Club on Bribie Island.

Have you heard of the band Joy Division?

Chinese food, not Chinese Internet!

Champions of Guess The Header

  • What is Guess The Header about? Let’s ask regular “Writing” reader, Shippy: "Anyway, after Franzy's stunning September, and having a crack at 'Guess The Header' for the first time - without truly knowing what I was doing mind you - I think I finally understand what 'GTH' is all about. At first I thought you needed to actually know what it was. Don't get me wrong — if you know what it is, it may help you. I now realise that it's more Franzy's way of invoking thought around an image or, more often than not, part of an image. If you dissect slightly the GTH explanatory sentence at the bottom of his blog you come up with this: “The photo is always taken by me and always connects in some way to the topic of the blog entry it heads up.” When the header is put up, the blog below it will in some obscure way have something to do with it. “Interesting comments are judged and scored arbitrarily and the process is open to corruption and bribery with all correspondence being entered into after the fact and on into eternity, ad infinitum amen.” Franzy judges it, but it's not always the GTH that describes the place perfectly that gets it. “The frequent commenters, the wits, the wags and the outright smartarses who, each entry, engage to both guess the origin and relevance of the strip of photo at the top (or “head”) of each new blog and also who leave what I deem the most interesting comment.” It generally helps if you're a complete smartarse and can twist things to mean whatever you feel they should mean - exactly the way Franzy would like things to be twisted." - Shippy Blogger and GTH point scorer.
  • Nai - 1
  • Lion Kinsman - 2
  • Will - 2
  • Brocky - 2
  • Andy Pants - 2
  • The 327th Male - 3
  • Mad Cat Lady - 3
  • Miles McClagen - 4
  • Myninjacockle - 4
  • Asheligh - 5
  • Neil - 5
  • Third Cat - 5
  • Adam Y - 6
  • Squib - 6
  • Mele - 6
  • Moifey - 7
  • Jono - 8
  • The Other, other Sam - 14
  • Kath Lockett - 15
  • Shippy - 19
  • River - 32