I'm up in Glasgow for the SVPCA meeting, staying with the in-laws. My laptop is pretty dead. I think the capacitors have gone now. I may be able to get them fixed under my PC World warranty, but the last time I tried to get something fixed the idiot told me that what was covered wasn't and vice versa, and then when I tried to read out the policy he said "Well that's all legal stuff, I don't know about that". He was so unpleasant that I don't trust him not to "accidentally" wipe my hard drive. But Paul has a plan involving stuff from Maplins.
I'm using a temporary replacement. I'm hoping it will become a permanent replacement. I desperately want to blog about it because it really is the dog's bollocks, but I don't know if I can yet.
Because I spent most of yesterday travelling I'm still a bit dazed and confused, so have a meme from Laelaps. Normal service (including e-mails, proper blog posts and comments, both here and on other blogs) will be resumed when I've had more caffeine or alcohol (the fact that it took me five goes to spell "alcohol" is probably testament to the need for this).
Three things in my fridge that define life right now:
1) Two sweet potatoes that looked okay before we went away, that we're hoping will still be okay when we get aback, but will probably be blue and furry.
2) A half-drunk bottle of lime crush, looking very lonely because we finished the tequila.
3) More ground coffee of different flavours than you can imagine.
Three recent acquisitions:
1) A new rear driver suspension arm, along with a whole other load of stuff that cost me £680 altogether for my car Christine.
2) A boston fern, Nephrolepis exultata, which is in our loung now (bringing the Mesozoic indoors).
3) New underpants. 20 of them for £18. Good old M&S.
Three classics I reach for every day:
1) My hubster (1979 vintage).
2) Twinings everyday tea - cannot physically leave the house without it.
3) My iPod.
My kids right now, in three words or less:
Unfertilised ova...
My sweetie right now, in three words or less:
Smurfing the net.
What's on my to-do list:
Write stinking letters to my bank for singularly failing to deal with the fraud attempted on my account (don't bank with Barclays if you value your money), get access to the Hunterian collections at some point this week, comment on some friends' blogs, register for this academic year at Birkbeck, and find a lightweight autumn jacket that I can wear to work (hoodies don't cut it anymore).
What I do often that relates to the season right now:
If we had had a really nice summer I would be spending as much of it as possible in the garden. Actually I have been doing a lot of gardening - even rescuing the sweet peas in the front of the house (not my job but our landlords don't go in for landscaping).
What I'm listening to right now:
The muffled sound of possibly the Clyde 2 radio station coming up from the conservatory below the bedroom window.
What I'm worried about right now:
Whether I will ever be able to a) buy a house, b) pay off my debts and d) finish my PhD, and if I achieve all of those whether it will then be too late to have kids.
Which news stories I'm following right now:
Probably actually the Madeleine McCann disappearance - I have my views, but I'm not about to air them here.
What I'm reading right now:
Liston, J.J. 2004. A re-examination of a Middle Jurassic sauropod limb bone from the Bathonian of the Isle of Skye. Scottish Journal of Geology 40(2): 119-122.
What I'm looking forward to right now:
The conference later this week, our annual pre-SVP holiday in Texas and New Mexico, and a long weekend in the Peak District that I'm going to book when we get back to London.
A thought I keep returning to right now:
The fear that no one actually takes me seriously because I'm having to pay for my own PhD and do it part-time.
One small thing that's making me happy right now:
This computer is really making me happy.
I'm using a temporary replacement. I'm hoping it will become a permanent replacement. I desperately want to blog about it because it really is the dog's bollocks, but I don't know if I can yet.
Because I spent most of yesterday travelling I'm still a bit dazed and confused, so have a meme from Laelaps. Normal service (including e-mails, proper blog posts and comments, both here and on other blogs) will be resumed when I've had more caffeine or alcohol (the fact that it took me five goes to spell "alcohol" is probably testament to the need for this).
Three things in my fridge that define life right now:
1) Two sweet potatoes that looked okay before we went away, that we're hoping will still be okay when we get aback, but will probably be blue and furry.
2) A half-drunk bottle of lime crush, looking very lonely because we finished the tequila.
3) More ground coffee of different flavours than you can imagine.
Three recent acquisitions:
1) A new rear driver suspension arm, along with a whole other load of stuff that cost me £680 altogether for my car Christine.
2) A boston fern, Nephrolepis exultata, which is in our loung now (bringing the Mesozoic indoors).
3) New underpants. 20 of them for £18. Good old M&S.
Three classics I reach for every day:
1) My hubster (1979 vintage).
2) Twinings everyday tea - cannot physically leave the house without it.
3) My iPod.
My kids right now, in three words or less:
Unfertilised ova...
My sweetie right now, in three words or less:
Smurfing the net.
What's on my to-do list:
Write stinking letters to my bank for singularly failing to deal with the fraud attempted on my account (don't bank with Barclays if you value your money), get access to the Hunterian collections at some point this week, comment on some friends' blogs, register for this academic year at Birkbeck, and find a lightweight autumn jacket that I can wear to work (hoodies don't cut it anymore).
What I do often that relates to the season right now:
If we had had a really nice summer I would be spending as much of it as possible in the garden. Actually I have been doing a lot of gardening - even rescuing the sweet peas in the front of the house (not my job but our landlords don't go in for landscaping).
What I'm listening to right now:
The muffled sound of possibly the Clyde 2 radio station coming up from the conservatory below the bedroom window.
What I'm worried about right now:
Whether I will ever be able to a) buy a house, b) pay off my debts and d) finish my PhD, and if I achieve all of those whether it will then be too late to have kids.
Which news stories I'm following right now:
Probably actually the Madeleine McCann disappearance - I have my views, but I'm not about to air them here.
What I'm reading right now:
Liston, J.J. 2004. A re-examination of a Middle Jurassic sauropod limb bone from the Bathonian of the Isle of Skye. Scottish Journal of Geology 40(2): 119-122.
What I'm looking forward to right now:
The conference later this week, our annual pre-SVP holiday in Texas and New Mexico, and a long weekend in the Peak District that I'm going to book when we get back to London.
A thought I keep returning to right now:
The fear that no one actually takes me seriously because I'm having to pay for my own PhD and do it part-time.
One small thing that's making me happy right now:
This computer is really making me happy.
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