I thought I really needed to get on here and attempt to blog particularly as the lads have been so well behaved recently...

Finally figured out what my password was and as James and Phil have blogged about all the meetings I thought I would write a bit about the prep work we are doing for the "autumn laboratory" *cringe* this is most definitely a working title and hopefully we will have a better name by the end of Tuesday's meeting!

So I have been cracking the whip and forcing the terrible two to *shock-horror* plan and manage their time... there was some initial resistance as the lab is technically 4 months away, however realising I was leaving in 3weeks (and counting) seemed to convince them it was all for the best.

We managed to have 2 highly productive meetings (albeit one was very impromptu) in the last week and planned out exactly which days we were doing which activities for which groups (Schools, Professionals and Community) inlcuding deciding who else would be giving seminars for the professionals. Possibly completely confused Matt who is from UCL and spending a few weeks at MADE in August on a placement, but he seemed to go away happy in the knowledge he was going to be doing some canal side use surveying, although possibly with a very skewed vision of what working in academia was all about!

I have a list of action points as long as my arm (not that big then...) and they weren't all for me to carry out (yay!)... there are a few nitty gritty contract-styley bits to arrange between the university and MADE and deciding which lucky few get invited to the launch party for the lab/"THE BOOK" as well as constructing invite lists for the different groups who will be attending the lab to ensure we get good numbers.

Otherwise i'm just working on fleshing out the gantt chart and getting highly excited about creating sub tasks and other unrelated things such as urban explorers (www.21dayslater.co.uk); walking algorithms/psychogeography (spending far too much time with geographers it seems!); and use of pervasive media... i'm still buzzing from the pervasive media workshop I went to in Bristol yesterday.

With all this work it must be almost time for me to go to India only 14.75 working days left i calculated, but with the ACE (Arts Council) Bid decision early august, I might be back!!!