I think Autumn is certainly one of my favourite seasons. Probably because Halloween is one of my favourite holidays. I have this urgue to buy pumpkins, carve them and make pumpkin pie, and decorate the house with cobwebs, ghosts, candles, and cauldrons filled with chocolate candy. Of course I can't the animals would rip them down in a minute. But I ( Read more... )

Odd, the menues on my journal are all messed about. And I cannot seem to fix it. Perhaps it was because for a few hours my paid account ran out. Ah well ( Read more... )

Hmm, what should I do? I must find someone to take my spot in the new apartment. Problem is I don't know anyone else who would want it. Argh. I hate disapointing people. And I really want to take the cheeper option. I don't know what to do. And I need to get on with my writing. I feel stupid bringing all my books to the lab at Howlands, but it's my ( Read more... )

Well, I just had my meeting with Michael. And the debate once again rages for weither I should bother with the PhD or not. It is something I have always wanted to do, and he thinks I would be good at it and would be able to find a job, at least in the US. In the UK I can forget it. I good, but I'm not stellar, therefore, there will be not academic ( Read more... )

For those of you who still do not know the news this was written on Wednesday ( Read more... )

My how a weekend changes everything. More on this later... I need food.

Well, Chester-le-Street was interesting. I really do wish it hadn't been pissing down. I went back to the travel agent and finished sorting out my tickets home. So that has all been finialized. Then on the walk to the bus station, in the heaviest part of the rain, my umbrella decided to kick the bucket. It was getting old. I had had it for about ( Read more... )

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Little tiny black flies are everywhere. They don't bite, they just annoy. But I cannot close the window becuase then the room doesn't get any air flow. So I sit here trying to work on my dissertation and kill as many of the little bastards as I can. My trash can is full of tissues rittled with their carcases. And yet there are always more. *sigh* I ( Read more... )

Well, I met the 500 word limit yesterday. Now I just need to do the same for today. But what shall be my reward for meeting this limit? I already finished what I could on the Lego Star Wars game that Mendel sent me. I suspose I could read a fun book. Cameron gave me a few that looked like they might be interesting to read. Yeah, that might work. I ( Read more... )