Dissertation completed! -ish ( Read more... )

I've just (for given value of just) come from the Melville leavers' (or Valedictorian) dinner. I dressed up in my full kilt outfit for the first time since ... the James Bond night, when we hired the cinema and got Bond's car to put on a midnight showing of Casino Royale on opening night. Everyone else wore tuxedos. I argued that, as Bond was ( Read more... )

Zoe's Birthday party proved brilliant, even if I did end up, through no real fault of my own acting a bit stupid at points ( Read more... )

( Exam timetable )

Wow, it's been a while since I updated this: not since I got the funded PhD offer from Imperial, which was followed on consecutive days by ones from St Andrews and a very nice e-mail from Royal Holloway saying "When would it be most convenient for us to give you a fully funded PhD place. Oh, and we're holding a conference on the 7-8th of April, ( Read more... )

I've been meaning to update this for ages ( Read more... )

...that I've actually been convinced ...Baby One More Time is a decent song. In my defence, it's Edwin's fault, he pointed me to a Travis acoustic cover, which is really good. And if a song can work well as an acoustic version, it must be good. Seriously, it's one of the basic laws of music, an elementary lemma ( Read more... )

After a pointless all-nighter, I made classes this morning. Well, class. Having only one lecture course is interesting. I had a very productive first meeting with my dissertation advisor, which had a nice hour long intro to Infinite Group Theory, and was given some tips on applying for PhD's or DPhil's and 4 textbooks and a paper to read ( Read more... )