So the IOP are doing their best to do cartwheels over the "increase" in the number of students taking A-level physics. Granted, this is the first increase in a very long time but I'm not sure we can be so happy about it...

In real terms we're talking about 98 more students taking a physics A-level this year compared to last year. Looking at the ( Read more... )

I am in love with my Wii! Matt is coming to terms with losing me to it ( Read more... )

Very stupid.

I am in sooo much pain today, it's not funny ( Read more... )

So Matt and I went to see Travis on Tuesday night at Hammersmith Apollo. I'd booked the tickets months ago and realised when we got back from holiday at the weekend that we were supposed to be going. Tuesday was my first day back at work for three weeks and I'd had to deal with a million and a half e-mails. I also found out I had to go to ( Read more... )

Anyone see Horizon tonight on BBC2? The lovely Brian Cox was on talking about particle physics and the LHC. He was the physics consultant on the film Sunshine by Danny Boyle - who I saw yesterday in the East End (I saw his film on Saturday and it scared me a lot! Although I enjoyed looking at Cillian Murphy for a couple of hours). The annoying Lisa ( Read more... )

The weather at the moment is just lovely. I've spent most of the weekend outside, so that was great. On Friday I went for dinner at a lovely wee Italian restaurant with my ex-boss and my friend Sarah that I used to work with. After that I headed with Sarah to Covent Garden where we went to a wine bar.
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Matt and I are going to be in Edinburgh next Thursday night/Friday during the day.

Just wondered if the Edinburgh folk were up for a drink on the Thursday night?

Let me know if you're around. It'd be great to catch up :-)

I made it through the Swimathon in one piece :-)

I really enjoyed the afternoon. There were five of us in the team and we got to swim two at a time. I was last to go so since we were an odd number I was the only one in the pool from our team at the end. That meant that everyone (including Matt) was standing around watching me swim and shouting (un) ( Read more... )

A week tomorrow I'm swimming 1km as part of a Swimathon challenge to raise funds for Marie Curie Cancer Care. I'm part of a team with my work colleagues and we're each swimming 1km ( Read more... )