Tag: personal
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rolling
It’s been ten years since I owned a bike. I started, as so many kids do, with a little BMX, then around my late teens I was gifted a refurbished hybrid to get about the backroads of the Hawkesbury hills. When I moved on campus, the hybrid became a handy mode of late-night transport between […]
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Hypnosis
Like the boy reaching out in Persona … … like Neo, who cannot resist the mirror … … cinema is hypnotic, and we are powerless to its mechanisms.
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What a difference…
Sometimes the gurus get it wrong… it may not be best to ‘mark’ down when you feel like your life is on a trajectory. Since the last blog, the contentedness I felt at managing things vanished. In its place was left a gaping hole of uncertainty. Doubt. Fear. And most keenly felt of all: a crippling […]
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Priorities
I am lucky to have a job that I love. But in the eighteen months of settling into full-time academia, I seem to have lost sight of the ‘love’ and become fixated on the ‘job’. A weird thing has happened in recent weeks, in that I’ve tried to become more focused on what is actually important […]
Daniel Binns 