Phaeton
1999-2016


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A little behind in my run reporting here...but it's Christmas and I am on HOLIDAY (as in I even disabled my work email account on my mobile devices and closed the client on my laptop) so here is a giant catch-up.

( end of term, running in Venice )

I am feeling the urge to tell more of the Internet about my running / maybe-possibly-triathloning exploits, so I am resurrecting my personal blog for the purpose. Just in case you are among the subset of "the interested". (It is syndicated here already, in case you prefer to read the posts through LJ.)

Not that I post here much, but I do still read...

The username tla became available, so I jumped on it. As long as I have a permanent account I may as well hog the namespace, hm?

...though sometimes it doesn't feel like it ( Read more... )

Seems that I mostly use this journal for communicating with people I knew before 2003, anymore. There must be some sort of social networking archaeology point in here, somewhere ( Read more... )

Oh what the hell. Since I missed the census in both the US and the UK.

March 2011: Living in Zürich with knell, our three-month-old daughter, and Phaeton the cat. Employed as a postdoc at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) where I've just come off of maternity leave and am mostly working remotely, on what is essentially a systematic review ( Read more... )

I've decided to start trying to keep a daily journal of life with Sophie, so that I can look back over what I wrote and reassure my future self that things do change, and maybe even get easier. Instead of keeping it here, though, I'm finally putting that Dreamwidth account to use.

I am tla there. The posts there are public; I don't know if I ( Read more... )

Went in for induction at 6pm; induction actually started at 7:15. At 12:15am I was 1.5cm along; at 2:15am I had a baby girl. Head-spinning. Also delightful. Name and more shortly.

Having heard today's news that public funding for university teaching in the UK is more or less going to stop (79% cut, the remaining pittance to be targeted at 'strategic' fields e.g. clinical medicine, nursing, science, technology and modern languages)...[*]

...and that the proposed way of making up the shortfall is to jack up tuition fees, to ( Read more... )