https:\/\/youtu.be\/v6XTx2Rg04g<\/a><\/p>\nI am quite passionate about the need for more women in positions of power. Men are arseholes particularly between the ages of 16 and 24, unfortunately a mental age many men seem to occupy for life. They really do believe that they need to constantly prove how \u2018big\u2019 they are \u2013 cars, guns, TV sets, jobs, gold, muscles, willies, power tools, membership of extremist organisations, vestments, power, fans, affairs, adventures, operas, PhD\u2019s \u2013 pathetic! I am an advocate of positive discrimination but I realise this troublesome to many women. The issue seems to centre on the notion that only genuine merit should be rewarded. But surely the qualifiers for merit are largely set by those same permanently 16 to 24 men. Meanwhile women miss out on the positions of influence because they \u2018ain\u2019t big enough\u2019. Let\u2019s just start again. Women only short lists, positive discrimination and an obligation for a progressive move toward the compulsory even distribution of women in positions of significant influence. Hopefully this would lead to a more even distribution and true equality across the board.<\/p>\n
The end of my first week back at work and I feel great. I have not had to venture onto campus yet, there is so much I can do electronically. I suppose the clich\u00e9 is true that on re entering normal life my perspective has changed. I certainly feel much less inclined to get hurt or frustrated by the inevitable fussiness of working within a large organisation. Actually I am lucky to have been cocooned by the luxuries of the public sector \u2013 so different from our previous experience when we were both freelance and tumbled into debt within weeks of M\u2019s diagnosis. Happily all that is in the past and that pastness is an important additional perspective on the current nowness of my particular circumstances. The fact is you get used to it. I read an account of a teenage cancer \u2018sufferer\u2019 (can\u2019t think of another word) \u2013 patient, victim\u2026.ugh \u2013 anyway she said that she had not taken her condition that seriously. I know what she means \u2013 I don\u2019t really take mine that seriously, it doesn’t seem necessary because everybody else does. Sometimes I am surprised that the people I love are worried about me, because I am not \u2013 but I suppose it’s rather insensitive not to realise that cancer is not to be laughed at. M pointed out that I am prone to believing only I know how I feel. I present a narrative based on a mix of what happening and what I would like to have happened. It\u2019s not that I make stuff up but I have a strong and tiresome sense that only I know how it really is and everyone else is just wrong. Must stop doing that.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday I will find out what the next step in my treatment is going to be. I am rather hoping for more of the same as it seems to be very beneficial but I gather there is a limit to it\u2019s effect and at that point it\u2019s not worth continuing. It\u2019s all about light chains, whatever they are. Don\u2019t fancy the bone-marrow autograft at all but that’s more because I am feeling good at the moment and it will definitely make me pretty frail for quite a while \u2013 still we will see.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile I am very happy with my lot. Plenty to do, plenty to think about.<\/p>\n
After an initial burst of creativity I have been very preoccupied with technical issues which I find rewarding and fun to take on and try to solve for example – I am very annoyed by the company that hosts my research website who have chosen to suddenly withdraw all support for WordPress sites \u2013 so now I am trying to figure out how to clone my WP site to another host \u2013 not a trivial operation. When it\u2019s all configured I will send a link and you can all check it out \u2013 bet you cannot wait!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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