have not written in here apallingly long, which must be massively rectified considering all the goings on of the last 2 months or so. my lj entries have been replaced by writing real-life letters to a real-life boy - wow. anyways. labs turned out to be amazing fun, so much more so than i imagined. i got on really well with the two guy graduates ( Read more... )

interesting observation.
night after bastille day (15th july) 1am: j proposes to me in the place de la concorde, the eiffel tower lighting up in the background.
14-15th july, around midnight, oxford (thus 1 am in paris): a new, wonderful boyfriend.
let's see what happens next year.

from root to tip. wow. i'm only 21.

i used to love maths. i liked the way the more you learnt the more it all came together in your head, until all of a sudden it clicked and there was a feeling of lightness as you saw the pattern all of a sudden. i probably shouldn't jinx this, but the more data i gather the more i'm beginning to get the feel for it, and i can feel the understanding ( Read more... )

hurrah! have moved my way up from the acknowledgments (http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/313/5795/1960), point 31, to actually getting my name into the list at the beginning of a paper! yeii! the student i was collaborating with, taking a few images ( Read more... )

research: three steps forwards, two steps back. or perhaps, one step forward, one in a random sideways direction involving a twisting of body parts.

i am now back in the confocal room, watching cells fluoresce in the dark. thus, hello lj, i'm back ( Read more... )

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technically i'm supposed to be a finalist, but spent yesterday afternoon playing croquet and last night on a crew date with wolfson. hurrah! a crew date with men that actually shave! what a nice change! punting round the cherwell, then having a massive bbq done for us (steaks) and not playing random drinking games at the end. *sigh* apparently this ( Read more... )