It would appear that Comic Relief Day is taking place on the accursed Friday the 13th. How strange ( Read more... )

A short explanation of a topic which has dominated my academic life for the past few months, and which I honestly hope never to encounter again. If you happen to be a bit squeamish about certain bodily functions, or have gender identity issues, I suggest you read on with caution.

Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, also known as Androgen Resistance, ( Read more... )

Kind of busy at the moment. Assignments to complete and work to do; I actually have a deadline to meet on Wednesday, which is a sure sign that the respite is over. Still, it's nice to feel motivated again. Newcastle LARP tomorrow night as well, and I'm looking forward to this one. The Carlisle game last night went brilliantly.

I've recently uploaded ( Read more... )

Well, I haven't updated much over the last fortnight because...well...not much has really been happening. I'm back in the swing of university life, and it's that time of year that's comfortably before the deadlines start building up, so personal stress is minimal at the moment. Still have the dissertation to contend with, but I'm getting extra ( Read more... )

Haven't updated this thing in three weeks, it would seem. Well, here goes a run-down of stuff that has happened;

My exam season for this semester is over. I had a presentation to give on bioethics in defence of a project submitted earlier in the year. My chosen topic was deforestation and the exploitation of natural resources in the Amazon. Rule 1 ( Read more... )

Well, I think it's fair to say that over the holiday period I damn near ate myself to death. Much exercise will have to be in store for the next few weeks. Christmas and New Year didn;t go badly at all, it was nice to see morticutor back in Carlisle and the family gathering in Sunderland wasn't a disaster in the slightest, despite my fears.

So what now? The ( Read more... )

Well, once again the holiday season has begun to roll around. the Christmas markets in Newcastle are up and running this week, and all the shops are playing that god-awful music that they play at this time of year. The weather is cold but bright, and all the shops are having their sales a month early because thanks to the credit crunch nobody wants ( Read more... )

So, seems like much of the country has just been hit by heavy snow, and here in the North East it's no exception. Fun stuff I have to say; I do enjoy snow and despite my general dislike of being cold it's kinda fun to actually have a winter that feels like a proper winter. Of course, it meant I was covered in the stuff by the time I finally walked ( Read more... )

This looks kind of shiny. Grossly impractical if you're not a multimillionaire, but still pretty cool.

Yesterday I got my Investigative Biology project handed in. I know it wasn't as good as it could have been; what worries me more is that I seem to be the only one in my group (yeah, it was a group project) who actually had trouble not going over the word limit. The project writeup had an upper limit of 2000 words, and that just feels like nothin to ( Read more... )