The Course of Doom was off for about 3 hours, then was on again. Sigh, sigh, sigh. I just want to get it out of the way, so the fact that it's on is a Good Thing. But I really could have done without the 3 hours when it was temporarily off ( Read more... )

An interesting piece on statistical or economic modelling. Seriously, is there such a thing ( Read more... )

25 days to the big day and counting down.  Packing like a fiend while dealing with the looming headline of the Course of Doom. Ugh, this is just inducing schizophrenia of epic proportions.

ROM filing done ( Read more... )

So, are future in-laws as scary as potential employers at a job interview?

He said that there will be no "interrogations". I know there won't be anything of that sort. I am actually surprisingly zen about this whole thing. Which probably worries me more than the actual meeting of the folks? Since when do I do zen??

Saturday's shopping started with a bang. I found the perfect ring within minutes of walking into the first jewellery shop we encountered. The ring just "spoke to me", which is my new mantra for buying jewellery.

I really, really love the design of the ring. A mix of rose and white gold in overlapping circles, it reminds me of the church architecture ( Read more... )

It was good to go home and see the folks. Ate too much, as usual, but the BMI target is still well within reasonable sight ( Read more... )

I am still so darn exhausted and unable to sleep at hours resembling normality. How much longer can this go on? I mean, even the Federer-Roddick Wimbledon final came to an end, eventually. This post-trip jetlag? Don't know if it's ever planning to go away. Or maybe it's not so much jetlag as some sort of great Time Shift that my body biology is ( Read more... )

Jetlagged? Check ( Read more... )

I am going back to Edinburgh ( Read more... )