I need gift ideas for my mum. Poor thing is getting her hip replaced two days before Christmas and will likely be spending Christmas Day in hospital. She'll then have very limited mobility for about six weeks. So, give me ideas please! Likes: science, gardening, her grandson.

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Those Aussies are very demanding with their passport photos... subject must be: eyes open, looking at the camera, face straight on, mouth closed, neutral expression, no shadow behind subject, and the face must be between 32 and 36 mm from crown to chin (hair not included). That's a little tough with a baby: ( the evidence )

My husband informed me that there are three kids in the US named "ESPN" (pronounced like Aspen, but with an E).

My childhood was spent with two other girls, Naomi (my cousin) and Kirsty, and our amazing nanny Theta. Around the age of five, when reading forwards became boring, we began to read backwards. We became Imoan (rather unfortunate), Ytsrik*, and Nosila. Of course the name Nosila was enormously amusing to Imoan and Ytsrik, as it sounded like something ( Read more... )

Took my orals this morning. It sure wasn't fun, and I felt rather stupid for not being able to answer some of the questions, but all that doesn't matter because I PASSED! I am now (or will be when I submit the form) a doctoral candidate. :)

Of course I've spent the whole rest of the day catching up on the WC...

Um, did my last entry not work??

Darn. I just tried to install a client to update this thing, and got a bunch of nasty "abort" messages. Oh well, will have to stick to the web I guess. Or update from home. But I have so much free time at work...

Man, this is hard to use. Do I want to download a client? I have a feeling the computer support Nazis wouldn't be very happy about that. They gave me hell about installing MSN messenger (was able to convince them we use it frequently for conference chats with Zimbabwe. in truth we've had about two such chats. everyone else types too slowly).