Comments on: Hey hey, we saw monkeys

By: Andrea

Andrea — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:39:10 +0000

glad to hear it. being my groupie is a full-time job. x

By: Rachel Johnson

Rachel Johnson — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:21:00 +0000

Psycho Modern Linguistics: I like it! Probably something rather more tedious like educational evaluation or research methods. *Yawns* Three hours a week though - and 70 days holiday!! So, lots of time for being your groupie. x

By: Andrea

Andrea — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:34:24 +0000

wow - congratulations, R :-). will you be teaching the pyschology of modern languages, then? and when do you go??

and yes, let me know what the possibilities are for a gig out there! I shall leave no 5-star hotel unturned in my quest for international jazz fame.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:32:50 +0000

Back to that ‘monopoly supplier of phonelike things’: Skype is banned. Apparently one can get around this via something called a ‘hotspot’ I think, but this procedure out-techs both H and I. So I’m doing better and going there in person. They’ll call me Associate Professor no less, in the Department of Psychology where I’ll have to teach 3 hours a week (which is quite reasonable/lucky considering I have a degree in Modern Languages). This is all secured bar the contract, which is not speedily secure at all really considering the Dean of the Faculty claims that the Egyptian administration is proud that they have mastered French bureaucracy and improved upon it.

There are at least four five star hotels in town - Al Ain, Abu Dhabi Emirate and another two in construction. Our ‘local’ has in-bar entertainment which comprises a set of South American and rather bored looking lovelies. I’ll make enquiries for you should you eclipse all that Asia has to offer.
xx

By: Andrea

Andrea — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 04:44:37 +0000

Rachel - haha! so, so glad you and H now have internetconnectivity. you must use Skype, it’s blooming brilliant for webcam (and normal telephone) chats.

Charlotte - Max’s request is duly noted, and I shall do my level best to obey him.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:59:36 +0000

Hugh got internet in his house tonight. The lack of which I am sure you will empathise with. Only that to achieve this he had to deal with the monopoly supplier of a phone-like things of which story is like a Kafka novel. His previous sole internet opportunity was at 6.59 - 7.00 each morning in his ‘office’ (the photocopying machine room) before his wallah comes in. Not quite an executive suite. Hence our joy …

We managed (much to the surprise of our respective lappytoppyi nternetty skills - minimal) to achieve a msn conversation, da dah de dah with web cam! So now I know how bad his hair looks 2 months after I last saw him. Anyhow. I digress.

The conversation included an experience of icons that one can include (which Hugh agreed was banal and during which I thought of all the DIY I could be getting on with), some essential exchanges of information and longing, and then some updates on internet activity in the last six months. And hence I sent him the link to this blog, reminding him that this was the long lost friend who happened to be on line the first time that I learned about MSN messenger (when we were in the internet corridor of our hostel in Colombia in December 2006) and she was the person who I had been at University with in the *ahem* late 80s early 90s. So he looked at the site … And he remembered, he respected, he revered and his comment was …

“Lovely arse”

By: Charlotte

Charlotte — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:04:51 +0000

Max looked at the photos on the computer and his comments was ‘more monkeys’. So Andrea, you have your first photography request. (BTW I have to admit, he’s used to being obeyed…)