Just realised I updated Facebook but not here...

Lupanine was a real champion. After the whole pyometra thing over July and August, she bounced back amazingly. For a while, it was like she was a hamster 6 months younger, zooming around and doing all sorts of projects in her cage. I was grateful for every single day, because each one was a gift I ( Read more... )

I hang out on a couple of hamster groups as they're a useful source of tips, advice and ideas about making Lupanine's life as interesting and fun as possible.

One thing that has been really irritating me lately, however, is some of the teenagers on them. Typical scenario would be a 16 year old, keeping a hamster they legitimately do adore and want ( Read more... )

...I just remembered takeaways exist and can deliver to houses ( Read more... )

Like many others, moving to DW. Not comfortable with having my Stuff held under Russian law for longer than is necessary to import the old LJ stuff into DW, sorry ( Read more... )

An annoying, potentially catastrophic, but expected thing happened today. In the interests of not moping about that, I will list the things that were excellent that happened today:

1. Excellent meeting with many potential collaborators, which is likely to lead to exciting work stuff!
2. Tea with doseybat, who I haven't seen in person for ages but is still as ( Read more... )

OK, so thought experiment ( Read more... )

When the weekend comes around, my natural inclination is normally to spend as much time vegetating on the sofa, spodding and generally minimising human contact and maximising tea intake. (Indeed, if I don't get a decent amount of downtime at weekends each month I start to stress out.) The trouble with this is, when taken to extremes, I end up ( Read more... )

Today I was scheduled to lecture both in the morning and the afternoon.

Oh, did I mention that at our university, a "lecture" is normally a 3 hour session?

Finished both of them early, but am still wiped out. *keels over*

This is pretty pathetic for someone who has held a full license for 4 years and owned a car for 2 years, but...driving still scares me if I'm on my own or on an unfamiliar route. I get all wound up and stressed about it beforehand and am not a happy dragon. Before today, I had never driven on a motorway on my own, despite having done it with a ( Read more... )

I imagine some other writery types on LJ can relate to this ( Read more... )