Sometimes, like when I am lying on a beach on a friday afternoon, flexible working hours seem like a brilliant idea. Other times, like when it is midnight on a Sunday night and I have only just started a two hour incubation, they seem like the most stupid concept ever. There is a slight possibility that this experiment will turn out wonderfully ( Read more... )

Why is it that when ever Sarah and I are in a car at the moment the driver seems to get lost? Being driven down a pitch black road in the middle of the night by someone who doesn't have the slightest clue what side of the city we are or even if we're still in Durham is slightly alarming ( Read more... )

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Seem to be spending a worrying amount of time here being bored. Am currently waiting for my gel to set so I can run it and the girl I'm working with along with half the lab have disappeared off to buy food for our labmeeting tomorrow. The really irritating thing is I'll probably still be here until after 6 anyway as once they come back they'll ( Read more... )

Well we made it to Duke. Is very hot and sunny, think I may be sun burnt already which is not the best way to go on. And I am sick of filling in forms telling people what my name is and that i was born in, am a citizen of, have tax status in etc the UK ( Read more... )

It turns out stress does not necessarily end when exams do ( Read more... )

It appears that i am incapable of doing any work on the day of an exam whether I am panicking because i know nothing as I was last night or not. As i am currently msn-less I have lost my usual form of procrastination therefore my room is absolutely spotless and I think I may have become addicted to sudoku thanks to heypreppy. Argh I am sooo bored and I ( Read more... )

Argh why does nothing make any sense anymore. I don't appear to have actually learnt anything I thought I had in the past year which means I have two days to learn everything I need to know for way too many exams.
Maybe I should resort to plan B after all and run away and become a cleaner.

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Yey, little_bobble and I have an actual address for over the summer, therefore I can get real post. I have therefor taken the opportunity to point out to my family (and others) that it is only polite that they send replies to the millions of postcards I am planning on sending ( Read more... )