This ill thing has completely screwed up my sleeping patterns, and the ironic thing is that while I was really ill, I was actually getting up at a halfway decent hour. (Ten ish, generally.) It's since I started feeling better that I've been sleeping in; probably because I can actually breathe properly and don't have to pee every hour, both of which ( Read more... )

So, the house thing is getting properly exciting! Yesterday, Mum and I went to Leeds - Leeds and back in a day, that is better than Durham and back but still pretty far - to look at houses. We looked at two of the houses that I saw with Anwar, and saw a couple of new ones in case the one I want falls through ( Read more... )

Bookmooch appears to be down. That's rather disappointing; I've just made a reading list of things suggested by fourth year project supervisors and wanted to see if any of them were on there. (If someone is giving away 'Quantum Field Theory of Point Particles' or 'An Introduction to String Theory', I will be very suprised, but you never know. It's ( Read more... )

I have far too little time. Which is clearly why I'm posting on LJ instead of, you know, doing work. Ahem. Yes.

Last night, I went to the house of the wonderful bluebeing for real food. And very delicious it was, too. There were fajitas, which I have not actually had before, except in college where they are like cardboard + burning and PAIN; also apple ( Read more... )

I am doing this week's weekly problem. Amazingly, despite not thinking to check my weekly problem schedule before I picked a weekend to go away, it turns out I only have one question this week. And that is online, and partly multiple choice ( Read more... )

I keep dreaming I can fly. It's very stressful when I wake up and realise I can't. (N.B. There will be no Peter Petrelli-esque attempts. No.)

Also, I've just remembered that I dreamt about these with the plunger and weapon snapped off. Why would I dream such a thing? WHY ( Read more... )

Ohgoodness. My results are inexplicable and wrong. OH.

This is clearly a wee problem in a lab report, the point of which, you would think, is explaining the results. Um. Yeah; results, analysis and interpretation are 250 marks out of 575. Oh dear.

And what's worse, I seem to get different results depending on what starting values I take.

( This takes some explaining. Feel free to skip, it's not all that interesting, just explaining to other people helps me work it out myself. )

Crystallography is SO BORING. Oh goodness is it boring. Did I mention that it's BORING? Hmm? Did I? Did I witter on about this at great length yesterday? I think I did. Because it is SO BORING ( Read more... )

I am quite, quite bored of crystallography. And I've only been revising it for, oh, half an hour? But I have come across the word 'spallation', and this clearly merits an LJ post, because well, spallation. If I hadn't written it in my notes, I wouldn't believe it was a real word ( Read more... )

I am, like, WIN tonight. I have done work, as told earlier. And finally, my essay feels like it might be starting to come together. I'm hesitant to get too hopeful - I know tomorrow I'll be back not knowing where to begin, and I'm struggling to fit the bits of research I've done together in any coherent and logical order, and despite having done ( Read more... )