So today is an historic day. The first ever British political TV debate, and it's 90 minutes long. Fun. I feel obliged to watch it, though I really don't want to. Really don't. But I'd feel guilty if I didn't so I'm going to, or that's the plan anyway. They’re guilt-tripping the country into paying attention to them with all this historic moment ( Read more... )

Wow, 10 whole months since my last entry. I must've dreamt a few postings because I had no idea it was that long.
( lab frustrations )

This PhD thing is exhausting, I'm behind on everything and we officially have swine flu on campus, which, if it spreads, I'm bound to catch. It hasn't been a good week. However, it's ended surprisingly well as this evening some experiments I'd been trying for ages worked! I cannot emphasise the "Yay" enough for this. I may have done a little dance ( Read more... )

I'm watching the Eurovision Song Contest live on the iplayer. I really don't know why. I wasn't intending to, as I have other things I really want to watch, so I keep trying to break away, but it's just so hard. To make this situation worse, the picture keeps freezing due to rubbish internet connection ( Read more... )

Just watched the finale of Battlestar Galactica and all I can say is: that was perfect. Amazing and perfect. I just don't want to go to sleep because then I'll have to stop thinking about it. Why does no one else in my flat watch this program?! I must buy the dvds and make them. I don't care if I have to tie them all up!

*sigh* so perfect...

I potted 135 seedlings yesterday. It took me two hours. I wanted to burn them all by the time I finished. Which, seeing as they're GM seedlings, is actually what's going to happen eventually - I just wont have the pleasure of doing it myself. It wasn't just the repetition that got to me, it was the way the roots were all tangled together so that I ( Read more... )

I'm back safely installed in my room at Warwick now, mug of warm opened-a-month-ago donated French perry in hand (well they were going to pour it away and I couldn't allow such a waste in these troubled economic times. Don't you see I'm doing this for the good of my country!). It's possible I might be missing my evening bottle of cider a little too ( Read more... )

I'm in sunny Wolverhampton now for my holidays, but here's a catch-up post about the last 2 weeks of term, which were a bit crazy. They involved a 4.30am start and a flight to Edinburgh and back, a new addiction discovered, two symposiums, my long-feared and anticipated 7week report meeting, a breakthrough in my work so far, a close encounter with ( Read more... )

Here comes your once yearly drunk-Siân post. It may not be very long, because I am extremely sleepy. I've just got back from the Warwick uni real ale festival thingy, of which I am a new member. It was fun. Alcohol was drunk. I tasted a wide variety of 'real' ales, most of which I despised but then I've never really tried beer before and I ( Read more... )

I learnt how to do some new lab things today ( Read more... )