Today I realised I'd done everything I'd planned to do, so I started painting. I painted all the woodwork that needed touching up downstairs and it looks pretty damn good. I'm glad I gave it a go as that probably saved me a load of money ( Read more... )

Today's PGCE Education Studies lecture opened a can of worms ( Read more... )

I have spent all day today reading for my course. Well, most of today, because I also baked bread and flapjacks, and cleaned my fridge, but you know what I mean ( Read more... )

I've survived (well, enjoyed, really) the first week of my course, but I feel like dropping down and sleeping all weekend now. I could do with a big hug right now, to be honest. Lush bubblebath will have to do? Meh. I had a pint of bitter in the uni bar and now feel dreadful, physically and emotionally ( Read more... )

Home ( Read more... )

I find it hard to focus on packing because I am listening to awesome music (first Kimya Dawson and then Nouvelle Vague) and keep on having random urges to dance. I think I haven't forgotten anything too crucial, and I hope that I can manage to carry my bags to the station and back home again after. It shouldn't take me this long to pack- this is a ( Read more... )

I am updating to say that I'm stuck in a weird state of mind. Hopefully trapping it on the page will make some sense out of it ( Read more... )

I have an awful cold/flu. Damnandbuggerit, because I so wanted to be outside climbing this evening, but a walk around town with the dog meant a)lying down on the riverbank enroute and b)two hours of sleep when I got home (and that was after not getting up until 11:55 ( Read more... )

I can't believe I've waited so long to read Fermat's Last Theorem. It's actually fairly light reading (very? I've got a hideous head cold and can still understand it). I kind of wish it had slightly more maths in it, but it's fun nonetheless ( Read more... )

Ben Goldacre on swine flu.

Thank you, Ben, for pointing out the truth: we don't know how this will pan out. We don't. We have epidemiological models and people studying the virus to find out what mutations allow human-to-human transmission, but we don't know the outcome ( Read more... )