My body is refusing to reboot from working nights. I shifted to lates (4p.m.-1 a.m.) last Saturday and yet it still refuses to allow me sleep. This is not helped by the fact that I've been off sick AGAIN for the last two days. I'm determined to go in this morning. It's one of my off days but we have mandatory teaching. I figure my lungs might just ( Read more... )

 Happy Hallowe'en!

I'm on vacation (thank GOD) in Boston, MA. I am having a great time. In fact I'm thinking of just bailing on work and running off into the rest of the US until my visa waiver paperwork expires in January. I suspect they would miss me though. I got a very suspicious call from a blocked number at around 5 o'clock UK time on Friday ( Read more... )

 I think I just created possibly the most perfect classic rock iTunes playlist. Oh yes. I'm planning on going shopping tomorrow so I will kick back on the train and pop that in my earbuds. Awesome.

Today was maniacally busy. I didn't leave work until about ten to seven (I technically finish at five). My registrar was very sweet though and told me to ( Read more... )

Something crazy has happened with my sleeping. I've always been a complete night owl and I usually never fall asleep until well after midnight and frequently it's the early hours before I nod off. However, over the last few days I've been going to bed super early and actually falling asleep at eleven and even ten o'clock! And yet I'm still ( Read more... )

I just achieved the seemingly impossible. Because I'm crazy I decided to pick up my old bike from Oxford and take it back to York. It's old and crappy (as you all well know) but it got me to London last year and I love it very much. It sounds easy in theory to move a cycle from Oxford to London. The Oxford Tube bus service allows bikes on board in ( Read more... )

I'm just under a month into work and I find myself with a week's annual leave. Hurrah. And I received my first ever pay cheque (I don't really count the few pounds I earned working in the buttery in third year) last week. So I have some time, a little bit of money and no guilt over spending it as I've actually earned it myself instead of just ( Read more... )

I'm in full essay avoidance mode. It's my housemate's birthday tomorrow and I was fresh out of ideas for what to buy her so I decided (this morning) to bake a cake. I considered just going out to Marks & Spencer and buying one but I figured this would be more personal. She's quite into homemade gifts and so I thought this would be perfect. And well ( Read more... )

So I'm playing the fiddle again. Why is it that almost everything in my so-called "repetoire" is pre-1750? I generally prefer romantic or modern pieces but almost everything I can play with anywhere near approaching conviction is Baroque. And I just reminded myself that I hate Handel for every conceiving of the idea of The Arrival of the Queen of ( Read more... )

I'm home from sunny Spain. And it was indeed very sunny. So sunny in fact that I have a rather tragically sunburnt arm (yes in the singular... bizarre). My friend and I had a fantastic time. I've lots to talk about in this post so I'm going to employ bullet points to try and prevent this from becoming overly long. Oh you all know that's total ( Read more... )

I had a really nice day. I actually got out of bed at a reasonable hour and showered and dressed which in itself was quite an achievement. I spoke to a community midwife on Friday who'd agreed to let me tag along with her today on her visits. However, she called me just before ten o'clock and informed me that actually she had a pretty free day and ( Read more... )