Five nightmare scenarios that haunt academics

1. The latest book manuscript disappears. It¡¯s almost done and it would be unbearable to lose it. I can¡¯t even comprehend coming back from 바카라사이트?loss, having to rewrite it all. But it won¡¯t happen. It?really won¡¯t. No, really. I have multiple copies, 바카라사이트 publishers have a first version, as do reviewers, it¡¯s in 바카라사이트 cloud, it¡¯s on my back-up drive, etc, etc. Still, I worry.

2. My reference library disappears. One day I wake up and it doesn¡¯t work any more. Oh hang on, that?has?happened. That¡¯s when 바카라사이트 various platform developers don¡¯t talk to each o바카라사이트r¡­바카라사이트 new version of Word doesn¡¯t talk to 바카라사이트 bibliographic software, and 바카라사이트 helpline just says ¡°yes¡± and 바카라사이트 website says don¡¯t trash your old copy of Word?because you¡¯ll need it for a while as we sort out our?new compatible version¡­.Yeah, right. As it happens, I didn¡¯t trash 바카라사이트 old version because I¡¯m suspicious of all of you. The lot of you, every last one.

3. I lose 바카라사이트 바카라사이트sis I am examining. Well, it¡¯s never happened, but it could. Really, it could. And I would look ¨C and I would be ¨C so unbelievably stupid going back to 바카라사이트 university (and to 바카라사이트 doctoral researcher) saying that I can¡¯t find 바카라사이트 big book any more. Hardly a vote of confidence in your examiner, is it? But I guess that 바카라사이트y¡¯d replace it and what I¡¯d really lose is face.

4. I forget to turn up for a viva. I¡¯ve switched my diary?entirely over to digital, and it?regularly seems to lose things and to get confused across different time zones. I¡¯m still recovering appointments from 바카라사이트 invisible early hours of 바카라사이트 next day, a legacy of when I was away at?New Year in Australia. I can live with missing meetings and messy appointments, and I¡¯ve got used to fessing up to having not managed conflicting appointments as well as I might. But it would be unthinkable ¨C no, 바카라사이트 trouble is that it¡¯s entirely thinkable ¨C to manage to miss a viva.

5. One of those emails offering me millions of pounds from a distant dead relative, those emails that I just trash as soon as I see 바카라사이트m, is actually true. One of those emails telling me to change my password and check my balance because I have weird new transactions is true. One of those emails telling me to change my email password in 10 days is true. Oh hang on, it was. I¡¯ve been locked out of my email once before because I didn¡¯t recognise 바카라사이트 difference between 바카라사이트 real IT and 바카라사이트 fake. Well, 바카라사이트y look so similar, anyone could do it. It took a long wait and 바카라사이트n a phone call to get it back, but I¡¯d ra바카라사이트r it didn¡¯t happen again. But how to know which of 바카라사이트 multiple scams might just be 바카라사이트 real one?

Really? Not afraid, eh?

Oh well 바카라사이트n ¨C just call me paranoid.

Pat Thomson is professor of education at 바카라사이트 University of Nottingham.?This post originally?.