Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
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9:53 am - Random question...
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Does anyone have a good recipe for butternut squash? There was one in my last veg box, but whenever I've tried to cook with it in the past, it's turned out to be insipid at best...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
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11:16 am - And the pantomime starts again...
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I've just had my first threatening letter from the TV licensing authority, exactly a month after moving in - I wonder how long it will take to persuade them that I don't have a TV this time... (At my previous address, it took about three and a half years, fifty or sixty letters from them, and three or four visits.)
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
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12:49 pm
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
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12:30 pm
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It strikes me as remarkably unhelpful if a pair of scissors marketed as being 'suitable for lab use' has acetone soluble handles. As a result I now have smears of congealing black plastic all over my hands...
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
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4:25 pm
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Out of curiosity, I thought I'd keep track of the bits and pieces of clothing I made over the last year, and it came out as: 12 frock coats, 11 waistcoats, 4 pairs of trousers, 6 pairs of britches, 3 shirts, 2 cravats, 6 sashes, 4 jackets, 4 pairs of pockets, 3 skirts, 1 pair of hose, 1 pourpoint, 2 hats, 1 tablecloth, 1 apron, 1 cloak, 1 phone case and 1 wallet.
Sadly, rather few of those were actually for me...
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8:43 am - Books Read in 2007
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Friday, December 14th, 2007
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9:11 am
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
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8:51 am - Laptop Question...
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I've money in my research budget to buy myself a laptop, but as I know very little about them I was wondering if anyone could offer me advice as to what I should get. It needs to run Windows XP (as a lot of the analytical software I use won't run under Vista), and ideally it should be small, light and rugged enough for me to easily carry when I cycle to work. Any suggestions?
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
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8:25 am - Website update...
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Having been typically lazy about sorting it out, I've finally updated my website again - as ever, thanks again to everyone who has let me use their pictures, and if I have made you something which isn't on the site, I'd be very grateful if you could send me a photograph or two...
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
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9:14 am - Abort, Retry, Fire?
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
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11:35 am - Embarrassment...
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When I was in Denmark last week, I happened to notice in a bookshop that the paperbacks seemed to be incredibly expensive - out of curiosity I picked up the nearest hardback to see if they were similarly overpriced. It was only after I'd been holding it for a few moments that I realised it was 'The Da Vinci Code' and was immediately overcome with terrible sense of mortification, horrified by the idea that someone I knew might have seen me with it in my hand* (the fact that I knew no-one else in Copenhagen being beside the point).
* As with the occasion on which I bought a copy of the Telegraph† because they were giving away a DVD of 'Orlando', and immediately bumped into three people I knew whilst holding the dreadful thing...
† For which midnight_echo is entirely to blame...
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11:12 am
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I've just put in an offer on a flat and it's been accepted. Fingers crossed it won't turn into such a stressful, costly and fruitless disaster as last time...
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Thursday, October 4th, 2007
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6:43 pm
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I've just realised that it's five years to the day since my PhD viva, and it's still as vividly terrifying in my mind as it was at the time...
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Monday, September 24th, 2007
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10:21 am
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Not a bad start to the week - I've just won a £20 book token from the UCU's crossword competition. (Of course, this was balanced by a second letter from the Union telling me that they want more money from me for my subscription, but nonetheless...)
current mood:  pleased
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Friday, September 14th, 2007
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1:11 pm - My brain has stopped working...
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I've spent far too long compiling a literature review for a piece of research I'm about to start and still have a depressingly undiminished stack of papers to get through, but my brain has stopped working - I've just read about a page and a half of the latest paper to make it to the top of the pile before I realised that it was actually one I'd written myself. I think I need a break...
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9:58 am
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If anyone's going to Dr Fell's from Southampton on Saturday, and has space in the car, I was wondering if I could beg a lift? Thanks.
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Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
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10:51 am - The joys of dealing with estate agents (the latest is a series of themed whinges)...
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'How about this property?'
'No, it's in Shirley. I told you that I don't want to live in Shirley.'
'Or this one? It's not in Shirley.'
'Yes it is, you're just calling it something else. I still don't want to live in Shirley.'
'This one, then?'
(With a note of hysteria)'No, it's in bloody Shirley!'
[Also repeated with a series of properties several tens of thousands of pounds outside my budget.]
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Monday, September 10th, 2007
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6:11 pm
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I was supposed to be viewing a couple of flats tonight, so dutifully left work early in order to get there in plenty of time. Needless to say, the bastard estate agent didn't bother to turn up. Again.
current mood:  annoyed
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4:00 pm
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I've finally sent off the completed version of a chapter I'd been asked to write - it's been hanging over me for months now and I'm very glad to see the back of it. (I know when I get the proofs back it will be full of mortifying and inexplicable mistakes, but just at the moment I don't have to think about it any more...)
current mood: relieved
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Thursday, September 6th, 2007
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3:35 pm
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It occurs to me that if I'd treated my students in as shoddy a manner as estate agents have treated me over the past year, I would have long since been fired.
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