So, I've finished my dissertation! Yeah! And handed it in, and celebrated it, and now I'm just left with packing all my crap so I can move tomorrow...isn't it amazing what you can accumulate over one tiny year?!? Anyway, once I've done all that, I get my life back so that's exciting ( Read more... )

I even changed my ad to make it clear I want to live with 20-something people somewhere within the city limits of D.C....well, at least this woman didn't seem to have kids, but she did live in Fairfax, Virginia...

So, from my very central (read: noisy) city centre location, I can literally look right down into the closest beergarden where the rest of the world is having a good time (it's a bank holiday here in the UK so everyone's had a long weekend and has seemingly used the opportunity to come down to Brighton..) whilst I'm stuck here. Life sure does suck ( Read more... )

So, looking for housing in D.C. at the mo, and therefore posted an ad on a housing list - it read like this ( Read more... )

So, this is another of those I-really-should-be-doing-something-more-serious-but-I-really-can't-be-bothered-posts. Somebody asked me the other day what my plans for the next day were....weeeeell, take a wild, wild guess! Oh well, there's light on the other side of the tunnel, I guess (speaking about tunnels, random fact you'll never get to use ( Read more... )

Well, evidently not...methinks I might have to tell some people about this blog as otherwise I'll be writing to a very select group of people (mainly consisting of...me! Well, a bit of narcissism never went amiss ( Read more... )

So, I'm sure you're all aware of how, when other jobs are really much more pressing (such as the small matter of finishing my dissertation) you all of a sudden just *have* to know what your Japanese name is, what kind of a kiss you are or which B&J's flavour you most resemble - glad that's all sorted now - I shall return to my work....

CHERRY ( Read more... )

It's always nice to start your blog with a nice old cliche to sort of set the tone and intellectual level you can expect from this journal straight right from the beginning ( Read more... )