Just on occasion, work can be a good distraction. I tend to avoid it where possible. But yesterday, what with Mark departing to China for the next 2 and a half weeks and me being in ‘boo-hoo-hoo-I’m-gonna-miss-him-too-much’ mode, doing a bit of work actually helped. Who would have thought?! As did a good run today:The [...]
Everyone needs a wing man. My selves have been a bit totally out if it lately. We’ve been moody and grumpy and tearful and stressed. We were beginning to wonder if we could cope. With anything. A PhD, it turns out, is quite stressful. Especially that statistics stuff. In fact, life aged very-nearly-30, it turns [...]
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It’s good to try something new now and again. So I attended my first football match this weekend. Leeds v Wolves at Elland Road (That’s the Leeds ground, to anyone as football-ignorant as me!). And it wasn’t quite as boring/scary/confusing as I’d expected it to be. Clearly, because I was there with my lucky shell, [...]
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Last week was another long week. Which is why, by approximately 18:20 on Friday evening, I was on my 2nd cocktail and had well and truly switched off my brain. I’ve not switched it back on yet. So that was how the weekend started and yesterday it continued with much fun as the parents (straight [...]
Romantic gestures don’t have to involve Tiffany rings. Yeas. I did just say that. You see, there I was last night, on the Tiffany website, dropping all manner of hints requests to poor Mark about how I need a Tiffany ring when my gorgeous, wonderful, adorable boyfriend had flowers hidden away, waiting to present them [...]
This week has been fraught. Busy, busy, busy in schools doing my data collection, interspersed with trying to prepare myself for my first presentation of said ‘data’ on Friday. All I saw were blank faces. Which was probably all they saw when they started asking me questions. Still, my supervisor said it was good so [...]
No iPhone is complete without this essential app. So now I have a reason to go out and buy an iPhone. Actually, I think this is more an app for the men to download. So they can covertly borrow their girlfriend’s ring, measure it, then order the appropriate size online. All without moving their arses [...]