Since no-one reads this journal except for myself and my other journal except for Nic, I'm moving to a more up-to-date place to concentrate on my solipsism. I'm trying to combine my two journals in some way that I might later regret in terms of what, of my past, it will reveal to Nic, but which might at least make me update in a way that is visible ( Read more... )

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After a day spent doing little other than finishing the fairly awful Need for Speed Undercover on the Wii and a short run (Eli went to her lab for a bit in the morning), we went to Fire and Stone for dinner. It's one of those trendy pizza places with geographically-themed pizzas, glass tables, french windows and a mezzanine bar that seemed to ( Read more... )

I spoke to Eli last night re. travelling for maybe a month or two, possibly incorporating some sort of voluntary work, after my DPhil and was a little taken aback by her enthusiasm for it, especially considering that we'd just watched "Revolutionary Road" where a depressed couple decide that moving to Paris would sort there life out but then don't ( Read more... )

Problems can cease to be problems when you stop thinking about them. This is the gist of today and a conversation I had in the pub yesterday with AK, CG and CW from my lab. (The trick is to get the balance right between being in denial and seeing everything is problematic.) When I was at the Turf I spoke about my (what CW referred to as ( Read more... )

Another (nonsexual) dream, another girl. This time Sarah who I was friends with at Edinburgh during my first couple of years. I think we both vaguely liked each other but not enough to actually do anything. In the dream she'd had a mole removed and we spent some time cuddling in an opium den-like classroom whilst some medical video was playing from ( Read more... )

Last night I dreamt that I was with this girl Mona, who went to my old sixth form college. I barely knew her at college (I think I was a bit intimidated by her intellect) and didn't have the hots for her, and I've not seen her since. I know that she was still at Oxford when I started here though. It wasn't exactly a sexual dream, but it was couple' ( Read more... )

My PI today informed the lab by email that he wants us all to talk to a guy who's visiting from Missouri in 30 min slots. Fair enough maybe, but he didn't say what that will involve, and when he sent the schedule round he'd put me in 45 minutes. I'd not heard about this guy until today (never read any of his papers), so I'm pretty certain that his ( Read more... )

I dreamt that I (only somewhat) accidentally married Lushan last night and spent most of the rest of the time on a train trying to get her to spend time with me. Ignoring any Freudian (or obvious) interpretations of that, it makes me wonder how different my life would be now if I'd continued updating LJ through uni. Reading old entries clearly has ( Read more... )

I dreamt about Annie from years ago last night. Usually I'm pretty annoyed when I dream about girls from the past, but Annie's been oddly absent from my pantheon of girls I used to like and for whom I still retain some fondness. I never seemed to dream about her or really wonder about her much even though I was utterly in love with her for about 6- ( Read more... )