Just in case anyone was concerned .. my mum rang this morning, and my family are all fine. I've heard from one other friend in east London, and she's OK. I sent off a couple of emails to my old departments at UCL, which are very close to Tavistock Square - I used to walk through there at least 3 or 4 times a week. It's odd to see TV images of such ( Read more... )

This resonates with me at the moment for some reason.

Letter to My Better Self, Neglected, Rejected, Allegedly Dead

*sigh*. So much has happened, and of course I wait until late at night, just before we leave for the East coast and a mini-tour to type here.

So.... rapidly..

1) My sister now has her own blog and she's far more diligent about updating (so far) than I am here. Plus it has cute pictures of my adorable nephew Oscar too ( Read more... )

Got this from motorgrrl ... and gee. I think I'm growing up.

You Are 34 Years Old

34

Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe ( Read more... )

Before I leave work.. a few updates.

Today's been majorly productive, which is great. One of the things I've been asked to do at work is set up a quarterly (or possibly biannual) authors series, to raise the profile of the Developmental Disabilities Institute at Wayne State, and in Detroit in general.

So yesterday I sent an email off to Rachel ( Read more... )

This one taken from sc_angel72 and callicrates. And, once again, at least in the top choices, Callicrates and I come out spookily similar. I'm sure we're sharing brain cells.

( My Harry Potter alter ego )

... it's another meme. I will update properly, with news on my trip to London, my wonderful nephew, and, thankfully, the three year visa that is now in my passport allowing me to stay in the country.

Til then.. stolen from raira
( Me-me-me-me )

( Fun self-portrait meme that I got from zoggy62 )

.. was on the BBC News this morning. Thank you NPR :)

Story is here.

Because my life just won't go consistently well at the moment ... to balance out my immigration joy ( Read more... )