Incident Report #1
Please think of Incident Reports as ’sad but true’. KJ looks forward to hearing from you when you are on site for, or hear about, real things that show us how folks are living, loving and just being generally up themselves – early Third Millenium style.
This Incident Report comes from a later-in-life birth mother but even she found it a ‘little much’.
The kids at her local primary school were drawing on quarto sheets of NSW Education Department issued paper.
Young Johnnie Featherstone-Smith-Daley-High-Falutin sustained a paper cut to his little finger.
Kath Featherstone-Smith and Richard Daley-High-Falutin have demanded that the school immediately undertake a risk assessment…….of paper.
Over to you!
Comment of the Week
September 9th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Hi there,
At last Radio National has a blogsite! Do you know what it’s been like for lonely scholars like myself waiting,….. waiting and watching as Facebook and Myself go parading by like Duleuze and Gitarri on a cold night in Berlin? Being a listener to RN for well over three ARC grants and a number of international conferences it’s an absolute joy to finally let myself go and totally abandoning my status as a “late adopter” and join in for what’s going to be a fast ride. HD.
Yes so concerned am I that we get this absolutely right I’ve taken myself off the bike track to offer the inaugural comment for your intriguing “Incident
Report.” Let me tell you a little about myself.
Gender: Indeterminate.
Favorite day: Tuesday
Hobbies: Bike riding and imagining what my students look like with their clothes on.
Cultural status: I’m unpredictable and oh…soooo…..busy.
Anyhow here’s my first incident: I’m sitting in my office and someone sends me an email. This happens about 200 times a day. I look wondering whether to open it. It’s from a visiting Russian scholar who I think is stealing chairs from the part timers office. I have no evidence so I’ll come back to this in a later blog. If I have time. Anyway there’s a knock at the door. I pretend to be friendly and welcoming to my boss who wants to meet with me to talk about the new degree but really it’s to complain about another colleague. My first reaction is to sit on the fence like I usually do, but wait their might be a chance that getting stuck in to my colleague could really benefit me. I lose courage, hear the chair let out a little of it’s air. As she gets up to ‘close the door’ in preparation for what must be said in confidence I say I must rush off as I am meeting up with the research node Performance Towards Caliginous Group. She looks at me suspiciously. Aren’t we in a early linkage round? I don’t know what to say. I am cornered.
Is this the kind of incident you are after?
If so I will continue to log in or on. As I said earlier I have never done this before, and in fact it is only that this is on the RADIO NATIONAL website where there is no danger of my students ever visiting would I take the chance to contribute in such a brazenly public fashion. I do this mainly for intellectual reasons…as you will discover ,even though I am too busy.
At your service,
The Lonely Scholar
September 10th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
dear lonely scholar,
your plight sadden me. i too am scholar, of icelandic saga. too much bicycle and sweaty lycra sodden the soul, not to speak of ogling of elderly greek men along cycle way. for the whale-road, the foamy sea a soul such as yours is formed. i feel this deep in my tunic.
i propose we visit together a conference soon to happen at university of technology in sydney. conference tell of miraculous noise made by sigur ros, band of reykavik. like groaning of ice on midwinter night the mighty clash of their signifying practices appear in the firmament of hybridity. i sure you understand.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:34 am
Hi Ragnar Hairy-Breek,
Thank you for your kind offer. I will give it some thought.
However you will understand that my anonymity needs to remain intact – otherwise this important research may be compromised. You see (even though I haven’t a minute to spare) I have decided to use my blogging experience as research for a new paper called “The Digital Teat as a Literary Artifact” (working title only, although if I run out of time it could work) and so here I am.
The perimeters of the project will be explained in due course. But just before I go …(the Dean wants to talk to me about the chairs that have gone missing form the part timers room) I need to draw attention to my spelling. If you think that I actually don’t know how to spell then you are very wrong. My whole life is words, so when something looks, well…odd… ask yourself why? Could this mispellt word be pointing to an alternative way of thinking about the text? I don’t want to sound full of myself but it’s ideas like this that explain why I am here.
Lonely Scholar.
September 14th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Dear Lonely Scholar, I need to draw attention to your inability to spell in pubic. You say words have impermeated your life and yet you think we are going to be fooled by an obvious slip of the fingers?
The sheer weight of multisyllabic prod-modern post-digital paper title dropping text you offer us is not enough to obfuscate the frisson you feel venturing out onto the foamy sea saga of bloggy sodden sundays.
September 14th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Hi Ragnar Hairy-Breek,
If anonymity prevents lonely scholars from joining you in rapture witnessing the sublime sigur ros then may I present to you a compatriot who tires of sweaty lycra soccer shorts and pines for glacial places?
September 14th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Gee, it’s getting hot in here! I have thought deeply about whether kerriejean.com should be used as a quasi dating site.
This is the ruling: only people with post-grad qualifications can declare their loneliness, lack of social skills AND publicise their sad attempts towards intimacy.
October 16th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
How do I post a fresh incident report?
Desperate of Russell Lea
October 17th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Dear Marmaduke – please place your incident report here. I’ll put it in a good spot. Good work all round, Marmaduke! KJ