New Beginnings

So, I very much doubt that anyone is really reading this old, dusty and defunct page - but I'm hoping I might turn things around soon. You see, my life is very much in a state of flux right now and I have some very interesting projects coming up - and possibly also a lot of spare time.

First news, I'm getting married! Wowzers. More on that soon - stay tuned!

 

Cor! This is the life... Mmm. 

Lost, Found, and Reclaimed!

Wow, an Oxford Comma! Stay tuned for some hopefully more up to date and insightful posts. x

Flock!!

Flock to Flock! Or so I hear. If you fancy yourself as a techie savvy young scamp, have a squiz at this crazy wee beasty... http://www.flock.com/

Ooooh.

I haven't written anything for ages, but that's ok as no-one really reads this anyway! On the offchance that anyone might pass this way, I'll take this occasion to let you know what I'm up to now.

You may already know that I've polished off two degrees already - one at the University of Warwick in the UK and another at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. Feeling the first for more knowledge (!) I started applying for Ph.D. places. Seeing as I live in Cambridge, it'd be very convenient for me to go to the university here and pleasingly they seem to think so too.

I'm now doing a Ph.D. in bioinformatics in the department of biochemistry at the University of Cambridge. It's a three year thing so I'll be here for a bit. I hope to be able to lots of computery - mathsy - biologyey type stuff and so far it seems to be going quite well.

Catching Up

It must be about 6 months since I moved back to the UK from Ireland and I still feel like I'm catching up. For example the news - I've always kept on top of current affairs and put stuff I don't know down to forgetting to read the paper or something. Recently I've noticed that there are some stories that are completely unfamiliar to me, stories that I think I really ought to have known about. I didn't know that cannabis had been declassified, or that Iain Duncan Smith had left the Conservative leadership (in an interesting fashion).

I've now worked out what's going on. When I moved to Ireland I felt I was still in touch with affairs as I still read the papers - but obviously the Irish papers. I had the feeling that I knew what was going on outside Ireland, but obviously I didn't.

Curiously, I feel like I know what's going on outside the UK at the moment (I still read all the papers). I'm now rethinking that... I don't believe I can really understand what's going on outside the UK when I only read UK papers.

I hate painters

I hate painters and their stupid inane whistling. Or, in particular one stupid painter who's in my house at the moment whistling some tuneless dreary crap. He's not even trying to whistle a tune in particular, just a long series of gasps that sound like a dying cat's sphincter muscle releasing wind. And I make him nice hot cups of tea regularly... Argh! it's driving me crazy. Hang on, if I put some music on I can't hear him anymore. Sweet.