Met my first academic today. Well, first academic in subject areas I'm responsible for. Seemed a nice lady from the computing department. Writes a blog on tech in education.

She'd contacted me to arrange some post-grad induction in October and I thought I'd go visit to locate things and confirm what she wanted covered. Content will be pretty much what I might have done at TheOldPlace - but of course pointing to new catalogues and resources and the like. Then she took me to visit the room I'd be in. Pretty much an identical tech set up to TheOldPlace (even the same little panel to switch between pc, tv or whatever) - although there was no DVD player with the video player. Not to worry, all my clips are in video format any way; I'm still working on getting them all nice and neatly on one single DVD.

Anyway, it all seemed very 'normal' and pleasant - though the hinted at in email invitation to lunch in a nearby community hall with other colleagues as "they usually did" seemed to vanish when it actually came to it. What did I say?!