Well, let's have a gander at my resolutions regarding how to deal with the SADs and see how it's all going so far ( Read more... )

So I am, as I said, not dealing well with winter. It's a comparatively sunny day, and I do feel better, but overall I'm curmudgeonly. Mostly I think because I spent the morning in bed, reading a crappy novel I hated (why did I read it, you ask? Out of curiosity, I reply. I thought it was going to be enjoyable fluff. It turned out to be unenjoyable ( Read more... )

I am not coping with winter, and I know I'm not alone. Part of the reason Michael was so easy to convince about the Thailand holiday (which was excellent) was his vivid memory of my mental state this time last year ( Read more... )

Wow, I haven't updated on here in a while. We ended up going to Thailand after all. It seems bizarre now that we even thought of not going, let alone agonizing over same. Haven't left yet, still in Suvarnabhumi airport - probably boarding in about 20 minutes.

I'm a bit wrecked (airports, man), but we have had a fantastic and marvellous time, and I'm ( Read more... )

So, the Cenolia paper has been accepted to Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. This is the second paper I submitted, and it's been through major revisions and the (subsequent) minor revisions (three typos, as of this morning), so it is actually going to be published ( Read more... )

Feeling much better with a little space and time distance from my embarrassing triggers. Admittedly, I also miss my home, my husband, my people, my dogs, my cats and generally my home Melbourne life; and I would be remiss not to mention the extraordinarily comfortable bed, in the bedroom that I share with someone I actually know who does not floss ( Read more... )

In spite of the fact that I appear to never shut up for more than about twenty minutes on Facebook, and that I am putting together more and more posts to be published on my Actual Blog (tm), I appear to have neglected LJ entirely ( Read more... )

Since I finished my nano project and I can't bring myself to handle the re-write for at least six months (I need to be away from it. I find as time passes, I go through a process of absolutely loathing my work to not minding it to realising that although it is deeply flawed there is good stuff for me to work with, and deciding eventually that it ( Read more... )

My foot is covered in gross blisters that have gone beyond itching into pain.

I am issuing a no hell no hell no to my physiotherapist regarding not ever putting tape on my again, ever, ever. I knew the allergy was unpleasant, but I didn't think it was this bad. My only test of it was when I was stuck with it on fieldwork and under those ( Read more... )

Today was better. I expect tomorrow to be better still.