Posts

Here you can find all of my posts in chronological order, from when I first realised this long-meditated project in my Paris attic.

  • Paris – Day 33, and a whole month at work!

    I swear the 7.51 bus has now become the 7.56 bus. From a dataset of two. That’s quite some extrapolation. What’s the chance that a bus can be late in a specific way two days in a row? It’s something that requires the binomial distribution formula to solve… But I digress. I did like maths…

  • Paris – Day 32

    The early bus was late for a change today, our internal audit finished, I made a mistake and apologised for it (after deliberating for half a day on how to), I had a few more physical administrative tasks to do today. Not too much to report 🙂 Also, success on the banking front! I have…

  • Paris – Day 31

    Goodness. It’s a month since I got here. Today the 7.51 bus became the 7.50 bus, and I think I have solved the mystery of why sometimes it doesn’t appear – it is because it has, and then disappeared, before it’s time. Gives a new meaning to “waiting for the bus”. One must anticipate it…

  • Home, and Paris, Days 29 and 30

    Saturday: Having arrived in Oxford some time past 11pm, I went to bed late, and on just over 5 hours of sleep, then made my way to the college I work at. It was grey from both the early light and the rain, but the autumn leaves blazed around me. University Parks are quite something…

  • Paris: Day 28, and homeward bound!

    I survived two weeks as de facto Office Manager. I am godly. I said farewell to my landlady this morning and asked if she wanted me to bring anything back from the UK. She said energy and a sunny disposition, not that we don’t have that already, she added, perhaps having seen my somewhat guilty…