937 words. Go me ( Read more... )

Today's scorecard as of 2.24pm 16.28pm 23.19pm:

Minutes overslept: 90
Minutes late for morning meeting: 10
Rash work-related promises made: 1
Trips into town: 1
Devilishly simple Halloween costumes hired/arranged: 1
Newspapers bought: 1
Newspapers read: 0 1
Sandwiches eaten: 1
Cups of tea drunk: 2.5 3 I've lost count. Let's say 5 ( Read more... )

John liked my introduction. One chapter down (and the most difficult one at that), sixish to go.

And the Journal of Theoretical Biology liked my paper. It needs a rewrite before they'll publish, but it's something.

I'm soooo clever.

Skipped shower and breakfast, the fundamentals of civilisation, to get to a 10am meeting on time. Now I realise that it was an 11am meeting, so I'm smelly, hungry and killing time in the library. I miss Firefox, Windows XP and a decent computer.

I fear John's assessment of my introduction may be withering.

I may attempt to join a literary movement.

I added some friends.

Go me.

...adjusted for variations in the length of moths, leap years etc ( Read more... )

I have an interview!

With John Lewis, that is. For their IT scheme. The interview's in February so I have plenty of time to prepare... on which note, I'm going to a careers fair in London tomorrow to see some John Lewis folks and find out what they're looking for. Hopefully "affable happy-go-lucky punster" will be high on the agenda.

Last night was Giles's 20th birthday party, marked by a bar crawl in town. It was brilliant ( Read more... )

It's twenty to ten and I've only just finished work for the day. I got a good result though: a straight line showing the relationship between optimal excision rate and optimal transposition rate for conservatively transposing ICEs. I'm sure that will give John & me a lot to talk about tomorrow ( Read more... )