AN INTRODUCTION TO DARA O BRIAIN:

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OKAY so he was getting there at five and I got there at like, three and I was the seventh person in the queue. The people in front all seemed to know one another, so it was...slightly awkward. I had my eyepatch on because my eye was giving me gyp, and read a lot of Evelina (for exams) for two hours, swapping where ( Read more... )

My birthday was lovely :) Got my hair done (by 'done', I mean lots of scarlet highlights) and we went to a lovely Chinese restaurant where I ate all I was allowed to :) Chicken satay (without the sauce), garlic beef, duck, fried rice, boiled rice, pork with an odd chili thing...most delicious thing I've had in my life ( Read more... )

My parents are home for my birthday and Nick Clegg won the debate. Now I have been ( Read more... )

Getting a wee bit worried about Mum and Dad--they were on holiday in Madeira when the volcano began spewing out ash, so they've got a flight to Lisbon and are now waiting to see if they can get a (27-hour) train to Paris and then try and get home somehow ( Read more... )

Recently I've started a new trashy book series (other favourites being The Dresden Files and The Princess Diaries). You know the ones--they go on and on and on and they're pulpy and the person writing them has a great sense of storytelling even if their prose isn't amazing? This one's called the House of Night series--it's a vampire thing--and I'm ( Read more... )

How are we all on this (shock!) sunny afternoon? I'm partly happy, partly pissed off--the Digital Economy bill's passed, I went to the dentist today to get a filling only they were told I came in for a check-up so I have to go in on Monday, but I'm not in any pain from the tooth so it's cool ( Read more... )

I've been having a hard time sleeping these past few nights--I put it down to being that time of the month. I always have a bad night just before my period, but I didn't sleep at all. The next night, I got from 3-11. Then the next night, 6-10.30. FINALLY, last night, 2-9. Slightly more normal ( Read more... )

Backstory: So, our catflap is open to any cat with an infrared collar. It doesn't open to any old stray. Another cat in the village--a large black Persian tomcat--has a similar collar. He's come in a few times and pissed on things--generally at night, so Dad chases him away with a roar and an angryface ( Read more... )

[EMMA arrives at the station. Her arms are aching. Her bags are too heavy. But she is twenty minutes early and the train! Is! there! EMMA gets onto a carriage near the front ( Read more... )

Finding Ada.

Rosalind Franklin made great contributions in discovering the structure of DNA. Without her research, Watson and Crick, the male scientists she worked with, would not have been able to find the Double Helix model.

Then, this happened:

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