Almost a year
My god, I haven't been on here for almost a year. But I was just reading back at some old posts and it was good to remind myself of what I was up to at that point in my life. So I guess I'd better put something else down for when I get back here in 2008 :oD
Where to begin? I was just reading a post where I was talking about moving to Scotland. I didn't make it that far. I got out of Liverpool but only just across the river really. I bought a big Edwardian semi in Prenton and I can sit in it and hear Tranmere Rovers play football not quarter of a mile away.
I'm still in the same job, unbelievably. I'm hanging on in at the web commerce coalface to bolster my CV. Life is still a whirl - I have a daughter now who's 4 and a half month's old. She is amazing. Much cleverer than her old man it has to be said. We walked around Ikea yesterday (we needed some curtains) and I carried her so she could have a good nose around. She was interested in everything, and I mean EVERYTHING. The facial expressions she pulls are those of an adult I swear...
PhD? Well, that's become more complicated. I'm plodding on through it still - I had all 8 chapters written in draft form, and 6 of those 8 are now finalised. I need to rework the other 2, finish off the introduction I've started and write a conclusion. Problem is, I lost a bit of motivation when Gracie arrived and now my tutor has buggered off to live in New Zealand. So I'm being passed around some other people at the moment who are much less keen to supervise me than he was. So we shall see how painful the next few months get...
Books? I'm reading Please Don't Come Back From the Moon by a first time author and it is great. I'm also buying up all the Banned Books that the Independent is promoting at the moment. I've read half of them but it just looks like such a cool collection I can't pass it up.
Music? Disappointed by the latest Red Hot Chilli Peppers album. Like The Kooks. Not bought much in the way of new stuff recently.
Films? Saw the latest Bond film which was ok. Watched The Black Dahlia and thought it was absolute tripe. HATED it. Went to see Hot Fuzz at the cinema and liked it, but it wasn't as good as Shaun of the Dead.
Anyway, that's me right now. Busy and tired and frantic as usual. I have some holidays booked at Easter so I'm going to decorate some parts of my house. The living room needs painting (it was damp coursed when I moved in and the plaster is still bare at the moment), and Ange's daughter's room is next on the list. I did Gracie's nursery and it looks great, even though I do say so myself. So it's makeover time for the second of our four bedrooms. I'm just not looking forward to laying the laminate floor - it just takes so goddamn long (about 2 weeks on and off in the nursery).
Anyway, time capsule full. Catch you later Schiller.
Where to begin? I was just reading a post where I was talking about moving to Scotland. I didn't make it that far. I got out of Liverpool but only just across the river really. I bought a big Edwardian semi in Prenton and I can sit in it and hear Tranmere Rovers play football not quarter of a mile away.
I'm still in the same job, unbelievably. I'm hanging on in at the web commerce coalface to bolster my CV. Life is still a whirl - I have a daughter now who's 4 and a half month's old. She is amazing. Much cleverer than her old man it has to be said. We walked around Ikea yesterday (we needed some curtains) and I carried her so she could have a good nose around. She was interested in everything, and I mean EVERYTHING. The facial expressions she pulls are those of an adult I swear...
PhD? Well, that's become more complicated. I'm plodding on through it still - I had all 8 chapters written in draft form, and 6 of those 8 are now finalised. I need to rework the other 2, finish off the introduction I've started and write a conclusion. Problem is, I lost a bit of motivation when Gracie arrived and now my tutor has buggered off to live in New Zealand. So I'm being passed around some other people at the moment who are much less keen to supervise me than he was. So we shall see how painful the next few months get...
Books? I'm reading Please Don't Come Back From the Moon by a first time author and it is great. I'm also buying up all the Banned Books that the Independent is promoting at the moment. I've read half of them but it just looks like such a cool collection I can't pass it up.
Music? Disappointed by the latest Red Hot Chilli Peppers album. Like The Kooks. Not bought much in the way of new stuff recently.
Films? Saw the latest Bond film which was ok. Watched The Black Dahlia and thought it was absolute tripe. HATED it. Went to see Hot Fuzz at the cinema and liked it, but it wasn't as good as Shaun of the Dead.
Anyway, that's me right now. Busy and tired and frantic as usual. I have some holidays booked at Easter so I'm going to decorate some parts of my house. The living room needs painting (it was damp coursed when I moved in and the plaster is still bare at the moment), and Ange's daughter's room is next on the list. I did Gracie's nursery and it looks great, even though I do say so myself. So it's makeover time for the second of our four bedrooms. I'm just not looking forward to laying the laminate floor - it just takes so goddamn long (about 2 weeks on and off in the nursery).
Anyway, time capsule full. Catch you later Schiller.