16th September, 2019.
Yes: time off …
It is sort of nice, isn’t it … ?
And have to confess I had an email back, after the recent interview.
You know, the one for the bookies?
It seems — accord to the email I got — that I spoke to the relevant managers …
Hmmm …
All I know is simply this.
The person I was supposed to speak to, wasn’t called Zoe …
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As for what’s going on … ?
I note that the BBC’s released an article showing how universities in the UK are having trouble dealing with students’ mental health issues.
The impression I picked up from it — and the Today programme’s reports on the subject — is that Universities seem to have no formalised duty of care: in the same way schools do.
That surprised me.
If students are having mental health issues at your university, and you’re not helping them deal with this?
That means they’re not necessarily in a fit state to learn whatever you’re trying to teach them.
And you job’s directly affected as a result.
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I know I’ve mentioned this, a time or two.
But I’m a fan of the Frank Herbert novel, Dune.
One plot thread?
Sees the Fremen — a group of desert dwelling religious fanatics — ‘fighting for their freedom’ by destroying the thing that keeps the transport system going.
I mention this?
Because of recent news that two Saudi Arabian oil plants have been destroyed: with the knock effect that oil prices have risen.
The oil plants? Plants processing a substance that keeps the transport system going?
Have been destroyed by drones flown by Houthi rebels.
The Houthi?
Are a religiously inspired movement fighting for freedom in Yemen, and fighting their Harko Saudi oppressors, by destroying the thing that keeps the transport system going.
The thing that annoys me, sometimes?
Is how people will tell you science fiction’s either for kids …
Or nothing to do with the real world …
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