After a very necessary and very enjoyable vacation in the US, it seems fit that my last stop on my East coast hopping adventure should be Washington DC, staying again at the ISH which I graced with my presence last year. It is fitting for a number of reasons, which I will enumerate* here ( Read more... )

:-D I'm grinning from ear-to-ear and about to explode. My brain is also filling up with a gazillion questions and concerns. So stuff happened pretty quickly, and my official country invitation from the Peace Corps is winging it's way to me (with DHL - so pretty speedy please). This invitation pack will tell me the country I've been assigned to ( Read more... )

My computer is dying. Having recieved it just before departing for Ifor Evans Hall and after three years of my hauling it around London on my bike, putting it in precarious positions for group-viewing of 'the Hills' and frantically beating away at the keyboard during my dissertation, the bottom third of the screen has decided to be obscured by ( Read more... )

Well, here's a surprise ( Read more... )

I look hilarious - in a beaten-wife sort of a way. If someone asked me what my life since the beginning of term has been like I would probably just look at my shoes, grumble and let a single tear run down my cheek. If 'reading week' is anything to go by, then I'm almost to the halfway point in this last semester. At the moment I'm trying to ( Read more... )

The last few days have been frickin' amazing. From hilarious good-natured pyjama parties to playing the greatest ultimate with intermittant downpours ... next time I even seem like I'm starting to complain I'm going to remember these moments.

Awww - to act coy. Happy Hanukkah.

So, after a nice little phone interview I got a nice little email congratulating me on my potential assignment (taking into account I clear OK medically) as a business advisor volunteer for the Peace Corps to French-speaking West Africa. Tentative departure date July 2008. So that'll be me set for the 27 months post-graduation.

Interesting.

These networking events are really bad. You listen to some presentations and then you go 'network' with free wine. Unfortunately they schedule these careers sessions at around 5/6pm, before anyone has been wise enough to line their stomach with food. So you end up deliriously tipsy trying to focus you eyes on some guy from the Government ( Read more... )

When it comes to american cities you never really hear anyone declaring their love for Washington DC; NY, Boston, San Franscisco or Seattle usually take the crown. But on day 4 I do REALLY like it here ( Read more... )

Most fun day/night ever. There's a time to throw up your hand and cry aloud! I've done good deeds, karma for passing my second year and been to the silent disco.

There's nothing like wearing headphones and bopping along to 'Take it On' with a few hundred people under the summer night sky next to the Thames.