I GOT A FIRST FROM OXFORD UNIVERSITY!

WHAT IS THAT I DON'T EVEN?

I WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL THE PEOPLE WITH WHOM I SAT IN THE PUB/DRESSED IN SILLY COSTUMES RATHER THAN WORKING.

...would have left me less dead had I, you know, consumed anything other than water before 3:45 pm. There are things that one can achieve with no breakfast. An exam and 3 hours of larp are not reasonably among them. If I am to continue this waking up early lark, I really should consider letting breakfast into my life.

Still, funtimes.

...I probably need to stop shouting *HUH!* every time I write his name.

Presentation is coming along. It's slow work, and I'm becoming easily distracted, but I do at least get the feeling that I am assimilating the area reasonably well, which since I basically have to do a talk on this is probably a healthy and important thing ( Read more... )

Papers about prions are popping up in my search streams for neural development. This is irksome, because I would much, much rather be writing a second piece on them than on current topic.

Froth post about WitW later if I'm in the mood.

...going hunting for a reference from 2004 and finding a new one from 2009 that lends huge support to a conclusion you're in the process of drawing.

Can't stop, sharks will get me.

Prion Essay: 2066/2800 (ohgodI'mgoingtorunoutofspace)

I am geeking out far too much about prion biology. This is mostly because the research into it reads as such an interesting story. Narrative in science is one of my buttons.

Prion Essay: 1450/2800

Sooo. My finals are about ten weeks away. Almost exactly ten weeks, actually. This is manageable; I have a plan, and I genuinely (and this has taken some brain-smiting to achieve) believe that I have plenty of time to get revised up; after all, last year I went from completely incapable to 66.6% (make of it what you will) mark in two weeks of... ( Read more... )

It is not a good idea to play a kamakuran dread pirate called Takifuga Rubripes. I should continue not doing this. Yes...

It is an even worse idea to play a half-kamakuran half-lyzar mokosh, turned to piracy to run from his shame, called Takifuga Flavidus.

Shut up brain. No. You can't. Even though i'm making you write an essay.

I went to the Oxford Union to hear Ben Goldacre speak about science in the media. And I got up the nerve to talk to him in the bar afterwards, edging out the intent looking student journalist with the dictophone.

*bouncebouncebounce*