Yesterday I attended Trans London, a group that meets in London's only LGBT bookshop, Gays the Word ( Read more... )

This Christmas is very much going wrong at the moment. My parents have managed to evidence a huge amount of communication breakdown such that there's way too much food in the house, a lot of it the wrong kind. However, the run-up to it hasn't been too bad. I'll write about that a bit later, but I thought the disaster that is our Christmas might ( Read more... )

The American family left today! Yey ( Read more... )

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My work code compiled today, which is always something that makes me feel good, although it's no guarantor that anything will work the way it's supposed to. It just means that I correctly understood how to express my problem in proper C++. The worst case scenario is discovering that something you've relied upon in your design doesn't work the way ( Read more... )

Yesterday I didn't get too much work done but had an enjoyable evening instead with herringprincess at an all you can eat Chinese. It made it the third consecutive day of big meals and my stomach is rebelling a bit today. The food was alright and plentiful and it was fun just sitting there watching the world go by, chatting and watching herringprincess put more food down her ( Read more... )

I have a bit of catching up to do.

Saturday saw my board gaming social with neoanjou, wychwood and dragoncookie all turning up. The first game we played was Carcassonne, which I got the impression that people liked but isn't a good game to play with four obsessive graduates, as the obsession for neatness can overule the imperative to win *grin*. I swear that was the ( Read more... )

Went into work today but left pretty quickly. I started off chatting to people and that was good catching up with them all. It was when I got to writting the email to my supervisor to tell him that I was back that the whole stress of being back caught up with me in one fell swoop. I said in the last post I'd been feeling ok about getting back to ( Read more... )

I haven't properly journalled for a week. And what a mixed week it's been ( Read more... )

Yeah, I'm long overdue for an update, but mental stuff has been keeping me on my toes all week.

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