One of my students said yesterday I should get a handle on the swearing. I didn't say "if all y'all weren't such fuckers that would definitely be a thing I could try" but it was a close run thing.
This week is my worst work wise. I have two 10 hour days and it's all very busy. But it's done now. Fuck em.
Sleep.

At last, the busy weeks of this semester are over! I can take it steady now until Christmas - catch up on my paperwork, test some methods, and plan for next semester. Huzzah!

Now the cold just needs to leave me. Go away, cold! I have fun stuff to do!

I've even managed to get through a good chunk of my prep and paperwork. Of course I should have done that LAST month, but there was the small problem of sorting out the mess of the labs ( Read more... )

Ugh. So tired.
Didn't help that the printers didn't print the last page of the practical handout so I spent a half hour I didn't have printing the last page and stapling it on.

I love this couch. Mmm, couch.

Holidays now!

And very pleased to report these little beauties won the "Make a Christmas decoration" competition


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I survived the first practical of the year! And the students did too!

Phew, what a relief.

Today I got to see my TWO papers. TWO! They're all prepped and everything for publishing. They look very professional.

My first (and second) FirstAuthor papers. Proof that I scienced!

Yus! An entire week off. Lovely!

We will ignore the meeting of 2 hrs before I left handing over the evil module to me that I now have to learn before term starts. *ignores that hard*

Holiday!

And I managed 15 miles last weekend (legs did fall off. But still. I did it. I be awesome)

Summer finally got here! It's warm and there are clear skies! Woohoo ( Read more... )

This week we had "introduce school kids to science!" and it was brilliant. Officially brilliant in fact, a kid gave the uni "a billion out of ten" rating on BBC radio two which we are still wallowing in ( Read more... )