Eeek ! My LJ friends page is upside down. The new entries appear in the middle of the page when I scroll down, as well as the options. How very very strange.

I scored a 71% on the "How Norwegian Are You?" Quizie! What about you?

That's quite high considering that I have no Norwegian connections at all (apart from the fact that I have 3 Norwegian friends who taught me how to say the names of my ice hockey kit, (elbow pad, shorts, helmet etc. Not George, Fred, Florence) in Norwegian)

Just spent the best part of two hours staring blankly at my computer as it came up repeatedly with the same error message in my LaTeX file. About 5 minutes ago, I realised that it was because I'd written ) instead of } (You try telling the difference when your eyes are tired :( ) Oh well, that's most of the day wasted on a stupid error. I've wasted ( Read more... )

I just bought a bike. Not a very good or expensive one, but one that I can rely on to get me to and from the lab each day without worrying about having to spend 5 mins putting the chain back on, and then 5 mins washing the oil off my hands ( Read more... )

I've been back from holiday (which I'll tell you about in a minute) and so far it's been the traditional back from vacation, got to catch up with work thing. I've moved house. I'm now living in a rented place down Cowley Road (for those of you who know Oxford at all) it took 5 trips of my car to move all my stuff - man do I own too much junk ! But ( Read more... )

I am going out with for the first Ice Hockey social of the term. Apparently the theme is traffic lights, wear green if you're single, yellow if you're not sure, and red if you're taken. I think it has the promise of being... interesting. So we're starting out for stupid hour on cocktails in the Beat Cafe on Little Clarendon St, then heading off ( Read more... )

News : I went to the local Pub Quiz at the Anchor on Tuesday, and my mountaineering club team won ! I think a lot had to do with the fact that there was a specialist science round, and our team consisted of 2 engineers, a physicist, a chemist and a mathematician. Still, we won - and we got a round of drinks for our efforts.

So it's been a long time, and I only ever seem to post here when things are going badly, but today a bad thing happened which will be good for me in the long term. I split up with my boyfriend for good - we've been having an on-off kind of thing for a while, but I'm quite happy really, it gives me a chance to get on with the future, when I've ( Read more... )

If only I had my camera... There's a beautiful pink/purple sky outside, and the silhouettes of the building rooves and trees just look so dramatic :(

From Sweden, and I'm very busy trying to catch up with all the stuff I've missed. I'll be writing more later today hopefully....

Bye, see you later.