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[Dec. 6th, 2009|04:40 pm] |
oh my god there is so much wind here, i will not be suprised if i wake up in oz. theres plenty of rain too, but so far no snow. has been fucking cold though. i've taken to wearing four or five layers at work and i'm still bloody cold, especialy when i'm in the lab.
works going fine, no major problems or anything. one girl i work with has her PhD Viva on the tenth, sounds so stress full, it seriously puts me of the idea of doing a PhD. four years of my life spent stressed out of my scull just to say 'Trust me, i'm a Doctor'. don't think it's worth it.
ah, i think the wind is trying to get into the library computer room, sounds pretty intense. not fun.
i'm coming home soon, i can't wait. i've talked my mum into leaving the christmas decorating to my this year, so i get to put up the tree when i get home. i'm really looking forward to christmas this year. i've spent so long planing things and making lists, i think it should be awesomeness. (oh, nef, have you emembered to get a table and chairs and stuff? are we still on for christmas day?)
oh, i know i've said yes to some nightmere before christmas themed hunt thing, but i'm not really sure whatr it is (need to stop saying yes to everything), could i get some form of defition? i'm sure it will be fun, but i'm just not sure what kind of fun.
my belly hurts, i had a 'fun with mango' day today and i'm not sure it was the best idea. tasty though. |
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[Nov. 29th, 2009|03:41 pm] |
i has news. really news, not just about getting new socks or nothin.
i'm moving in the new year. i'm renting a room in a house in oswestry. the house belongs to a woman i work with who is moving to brighton in the new year. i'm really nice and has a cool kitchen and a proper fire place. most of my rent will be paid by the people who are paying me which is good. i can't wait to get out og the nurses hole. it's shit and i hate it, it's like living in the fucking past.
i'm really enjoying work at the moment, i've got plenty to do and i think i'm finaly fitting in a bit. cells are fine, and i've managed to do plent of experiments.
fuck i'm cold. the computer room in the library seems to be without heating. i'm sleepy too.
i'm coming home on the 18th december. am looking forward to it. |
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[Oct. 27th, 2009|10:08 am] |
yey, iz coming home tomorrow, and i'm so excited. altough i'm not looking forward to the train journey, i am looking forward to halloween.
oh, speaking of spooky, last night i went to the toilet before bed and on my way back to my room, i saw this guy standing in the middle of the corridor, just standing there, stairing. and for a moment i thought 'ah, zombie!'. he wasn't, i think he was just waiting for some one, but it creeped me out a bit, cause it was 1 in the morning, and i was in my pjs. ok, so it doesn't sound creepy, but he did look a bit like a zombie at the time.
um, yeah, so when are people working over the next few days? i'm free thursday to monday (going home tuesday). i really want to go see zombie land, it looks well good. anyone up for some film watching? |
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[Oct. 22nd, 2009|01:43 pm] |
i'll be in basingstoke this time next week, yey.
i'm coming home wednesday evening. am very much looking forward to it. have been pretty bussy this week and could do with a break.
this weekend i'm going to the west middlands vegan festival in wolverhampton, i'm also looking forward to that, get to spend the day surrounded by hippies going on and on about animal rights and hemp. woot. (i'm not to sure if i'm being serious or not, i'll get back to you on that)
i'm pretty sleepy today. havn't slept to well for the past few nights. there's this guy sleeping in the room next to mine who may be the loudest snorer in the world. you can hear him all the way down the corridor. and he getts up at stupid o'clock in the morning, stomping around, waking me up. cunt. he's part of this group of doctors thats visting the hospital and they're really anoying. but i think they're leaving today. woo.
wanted to go see zombie land last weekend, but i got to the odeon in wrexham at 2pm and the first showing wasn't untill 4:45, and there was no way i was going to hang around in wrexham for nerly 3 hours, so i went to see 'the imaginariun of doctor panassis'. not a bad film, but not as good as i had hoped.
we have the risk assessment people in today, and aparrently our office is a major risk, what with all the boxes of dry ice, and papers and just genral crap lying around everywhere. oh well.
i think i'm comming down with something, my lungs are starting to hurt and i'm getting a cough. hope i don't cough on my cells when i'm feeding them.
hm, so sleepy. do you think i'll get introuble for having a nap while i'm waiting for my cell to adhere? |
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[Oct. 15th, 2009|04:04 pm] |
i'm coming home in 13 days. (note that i'm counting). getting the train home on wednesday 28th october after work and heading back to the middle of no-where on tuesday. so looking forward to it.
on saturday i'm going to bum around oswestry in the morning and then go to the cinima in wrexham in the afternoon to watch 'zombie land' really want to watch that film, the trailers look so cool. i am not alowed to go shopping though, i went on ebay the other day and my mind went fuzzy for a few momments, and suddenly i'd spent £30. well, atleast i'll get pretty new cloths.
went to manchester last weekend, i didn't realise how much i miss living there till the train was pulling into the station and i could see the big hilton. it might be northan, but i do love that stupid city. i went to 8th day vegi co-op and cafe and got a smoky vegtable burrito adn it was so good. i love the food they do there, once had something that was so good i could have wept.
spent yesterday trying to figer out how to do some dilutions. i think i broke my brain trying to figer out how to turn something that is at a dilutuion of 6.7 into 4. I can't do dilutions.
atleast my cells are still alive. i had one flask that was growing really quickly, and another that was growing really slowly, so i've put them next to eachother in the incubator to try and incurage the slow cells to grow faster. done think it will work, but it's worth a try.
i got a call from a doctor today, asking me to explain what a result for one of the tests that i do ment. that amused me greatly. i mean, he's a fucking doctor, he should know this stuff.
i made pita bread on tusday and they are very tasty. i'm getting better at this whole bread making thing. some guy from the nurses home was watching me knead dough and asked me if i was aware that i could just go and buy some from the shop. (cause i'm some backwards twat thats never walked down the bread aisle before). i pionted out that I was making then cause it was something to do with my time and they would taste better to me if i made them myself. (and they do taste awesome)
the heating in the nurses home is wierd. it's on for a bit, then it's off for days, then it's on for ages and then of for a bit. like someones just fucking aroung with the switch. stupid backwards nurses home, why can't they just have radiators that we can control owerselfs.
can't wait till halloween. |
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[Oct. 8th, 2009|02:39 pm] |
hmmmmmmmmm, very sleepy this week. have an urge to sneak off from work and have a nap, but i'm to bussy this week. had loads of tests to do and 1000s of cells to count.
i'm going to manchester tomorrow, gonna be a whole world of fun. house party on saturday, woo.
gah, to sleepy to write a long post.
quick story
- got new season of DS9 (second season) from amazon from £12 woo
- went to wolvehampton last saturday, it's not the nicest place. bought some tights in primark.
- made flatbread, is very tasty. also made a massive pot of stew, black bean and chilli.
- is fucking cold up here, but it smells like autumn, which is lovely.
- can't wait till halloween.
- oh, and porridge goes great with jam. om nom nom. |
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[Oct. 1st, 2009|11:04 am] |
I made cookies last night. Nut and chocolate chip. They where pretty good, could have used a bit more sugar, and longer in the oven at a lower temperature. I think i'm going to work on the recipy untill they are uber cookies.
And i'm making pizza tonight, from scratch. it's gonna take ages, cause i have to let it rise for about 2 hours in total, but it will be worth it.
works going good, plent to do, but not to much. Made an interresting find this morrning when i was annalysing a slide (CXCL16 either doesn't bind to fibronectin, or it blocks MSCs binding to it).
went primarni shopping on saturday, bought loads but only spent £25, which i'm pretty happy about. i was going to go watch a film in the odeon in wrexham, but when i got there they said they had to close the cinimar, because of a problem with the water supply. I was a little irritated but that, be i went and bought 'Hot Fuzz' instead, which was cheeper then paying throught he nose for a ticket, so i don't really mind. I also got my bike fixed at halford in the morning of saturday. the guy had to replace most of the brake, but it only cose me £8, and he oiled the chain for my and lowerd the seat aswell, i was very pleased with that. oh, i also got a new sim card, so i'm not on O2 and have signal. which is also awesome.
Think i might have a look round wolverhampton on saturday. not really expecting much, but it will be somthing to do. need to buy tights. i got a new skirt for winter, but it's a bit short, so i need some really thick wool tights so i don't freeze. i also got new boots throught the post, from ebay, they arn't doc martins, they are slouchy ancle cowboy boots with a bit of a heel and slightly pointed toe. like them alot.
am so happy it's finally october, definatly me favourite month. halloween soon, can't wait. have had to hold my self back from buying loads of halloween stuff in sainsburys. i know i don't need paper plates with ghosts on, but i want them. i did brake a glass the other day, so i might get on of those plastic goblets, and i want some funky candles, but other then that it would just be a waist.
miss you all, hope things are good. |
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[Sep. 24th, 2009|04:12 pm] |
um, i have vegan friendly chocolate animal crackers. how cool is that?
(answer: very cool. and tasty)
i went to see my sister last weekend, it was awesome. went to the electric ballrooms sin city night. wasn't very full, but i had so much fun. met this friend of emmas who was dressed in this cute sailors outfit and she had a mostash neckless. it was the coolest thing. oh, dans band 'Imicus' are relesing their first single soon, (you should all check it out) and they're gonna be filming the video this weekend, how cool is that.
emma made me vegan chocolate covered shortbread, it was uber nom.
we talked so much about christmas food, seriously, hours on saturday evening. we're gonna go to the good food show in london on the 14th november and after we're gonna do a test run of some of the food.
i made raisen bread on monday, i was pretty impressed at how it turned out, considering i've never made any bread substance before. think i'm gonna have a wack at making pizza dough soon.
works been ok, havn't infected anything for weeks (yey) and have started the second stage of my prodject which is going well. the only anoying thing is the stem cells i'm using really like fibronecting and loads are addhering to the slide, good for my results, bad for me when i have to count them all.
for some reason salford keep sending me things, like i'm coming back this year. i hope they know i'm on placement. i think it's a bit mean of them. i got the booklet with all the possible third year prodjects in and i found some that sound like i could do them really well, like this liturature review on the history of cytokine detection, or a lab based one on sleeping sickness. it's like their tessing me, really want to go back to uni. stupid placment being good for my stupid CV and giving me stupid experience that i need. i just want to go to lectures and sit in the pub at lunch times and go out to clubs with the drama crowd and bum around in manchester.
must get me bike fixed at the weekend, gonna take it to halford in oswestry. have had many close encounters with large cars due to my inability to break. should proberly also get one of those gastly bright yellow stripes to wear for when i'm cycling in the dark. oh, and my go to O2 and get a new sim card so i can get signal. will inform you of my new number asap.
Love film.com sent me beowulf yesterday. good thats a shit film. wish i hadn't picked it. think i might go for Wall.e next, or maybe something with a james bond feel.
oh, i've been thinking about halloween (inbetween my christmas obsesion), and if we can't be botherd with a big party, maybe we just go to the pub all dressed up. we could even go to the tart for a bit, then maybe check out the bount. i was also thinking we could have a horror movie video night or something. any comments?
can't think of much else to report. i am on a letter writing binge at the moment, sent one to nef and alana, am working on ones to caroline and sarah. oh and kerri, are you at uni yet? can i have your address? |
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[Sep. 11th, 2009|09:33 am] |
i have had such a non week (again). One of the incubators had to be serviced as there was a fungal infection in it (not my fault this time, as i don't use that one), so I couldn't set up any experiments. That left a massive gap in how i can spend my time. I've preformed two routine tests this week, but i have had many samples sent in so i can't do any more untill next week. I spent alot of monday and tuesday writing up my results from the first stage of my prodject, and going ouver graphs and trying to work out where to go from here, but theres only so long i can stare at an excell spreadsheat without felling like my brain is rotting. We had a lab meeting on tuesday morning, where everyone in the rheumotology group gets together and explains what there doing and why, and that was quite good as they helped me with some things i'm having difficulty with. Yesterday i pretty much did nothing. read a scientific review, went of vegan food blogs, spun around on my chair (they've given me a spinny office one, and i am loving it).
So, yeah, bored at work at the moment. BUT, next week thursday i'm going up to keele university to meet this woman called Ying Yang (seriously) and she's going to teach me how to make the bio-material slides that i've been using. so yey of many fronts. firstly, i only have six left and need some more, secondly, it would be a great thing to say i can do as theres a massive amount of work going into the production of bio-materials, thirdly, yey, adventure out of the office.
next week friday i'm going down to london to see emma anwe are going to sin city in camden. can't wait, it's going to be a whole world of fun. getting the train as soon as i can disapear from work on friday afternoon, and going to Chester, then to london. It's a bit wierd to be going to chester to get to london, cos chester's in the wrong direction, but appeaently the train from there is supper fast, only 2 hours and only makes two stops inbetween, which is good. i'll be in london by 7:40pm (ish) and then it's a short tube ride to camden, and then the partying can begin. gonna be coming back upon the sunday.
went to chester Zoo last weekend, that was pretty cool, i saw the red panda (the cutest thing i've ever seen in my entire life), and the jaguar, and the very happy looking elephants, and the snooty looking cammels, and the penguins, oh, and the house of bats. i love bats, they where so cool. the house they are in had very few lights, so i could only see their shadows as they flew about, but there wern't in cages, so they could fly right past you, which i think was a great way to do it. i also went to see the monkeys, but i've never really liked monkeys that much. they're ugly and smelly and hairy. i know people like that yet don't feel the need to stare at them in a cage. no, monkeys are not my thing.
i had a shock on saturday morning, when the hot water gave out. appearently something went wrong in the boiler house, and the hot water wasn't on again untill tuesday, so I had to brave the freezing shower for three mornings. but, it did make me appriciate having hot water when it was back. It also made me think about moving out of the nurses home and renting a room in owsestry, but the cheapest i could get is £70 a week, which leaves me with enough for food and ciggerts, but no money for trains, or cloths or anything else, so i think i'll stick it out in the nurses home. It's not that bad, i mean, they havn't turned the heating on yet, and the whole place is kind of grubby, and the bed is uncomfortable, and the windows are drafty and don't have double glazing and i have a feeling that hibernation this winter would be the best course of action for me. but, it's free, and one of the pretty student nurses that was living there when i first moved in has come back for another three months, which is good. and i got some cute flower/fairy lights for my room which i've hung above my bed. they make the room look really cossy and now i can read in bed.
tomorrow i am going to have my hair cut, it's driving mad, the back is to long and non of it will behave. i'm not sure what i want done, may be i'll just tell the girl to suprise me. it's the pre-garduate at tony and guys, so it sould only cost me £25, woot.
oh, the wierdest thing happened to me yesterday. i was cycling back from oswestry, along this little B road, and there was a guy on bicycle infont of me and i managed to over take him, then he can up next to me, both of us still cycling along, and sterted taking to me about the patch on my backpack that says 'Are you dead yet', asking if it ment dead in a spirtul sence, or a metaphorical sence etc. it was a bit creepy, any proberly not the best thing to do went riding along a bussy county road, you know, i have to concentrate on not crashing and dieing, i can't be dealing with in depth converstions.
the front break on my bike is not totally gone, the wire is no longer conected to the handle, should take it to the bike repare shop in oswestry (but proberly wont)
I'm so looking forward to halloween. i'm thinking of coming back on thursday the 29th, going back on the 2nd, or 3rd of november. what do you think? do we have any plans for halloween? i'm buying a pumpkin this year, i'm going to carve it and make a stew out of the flesh, and a jack-o-lanten out of the rest. and i'm making chocolate pumpkin cup-cakes. it's gonna be a tasty halloween.
oh, that reminds me, Miss Nef, are we still on for having a christmas day? i have a whole world of food ideas, let me come to your house and i can cook you a meal you'll never forget.
um, i think thats it. hope you are all ok. |
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[Sep. 4th, 2009|12:41 pm] |
gah, i can't be bothed with work today, but i've got to much to do to just sit around and do nothing. i've finished the experiments for the first stage of my prodject and now i've got to anylise my results. so many graphs, i'm so sick of stairing at excel.
my brain really doesn't want to work anymore today. it was going so well this morning, i think i used up all my concentration power in the forst two hours of the day. i've got to do a routen hospital test after lunch, at least that should be pretty simple.
my trip to basingstoke was really fun, it was great to see everyone again. went to the pub on friday when got back. on saturday i went to reading with kerri, dane, sarah and luke wich was brillent and in the evening had dinner with caroline and we watched 'lesbian vampire killers' and 'watchmen'. then on sunday i bummed around the house and genrally chillaxed. not a bad weekend.
i'm going to chester zoo tomorrow, i'm quite looking forward to it, love zoos, and this one is suppose to be really good so i should have a good time there.
on the 18th i'm going to vist my sister in london. we going to go to sin city in candem, can't wait. i jsut need a really good outfit for it.
hm, my right thumb has just gone numb, that really odd.
um, don't have much else to say. most things are going good here, oh, apart from the front break on my bike has broken. the wire attached to the break handle snaped, so now only the back one works. should proberly get that fixed, i've been neerly crashing into enough things with two functioning breaks.
anyway, hope everyone is ok. nef, i hope you had a fucking awesome time at reading festival. |
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[Aug. 27th, 2009|09:10 pm] |
have had a really shit day. it was all going ok untill i found out that two more of my flasks of stem cells have developed infections. it has to be something to fo with my sterile technique not being as sterile as it should be. i wish i could figure out what it is i'm doing wrong before it's destroyed all the cells we have.
then i couldn't downlode my results for the microscope computer, meaning i can't annylise the fucking thing, then in the routine hosptial test i did today, the positive control came out negetive so i have to do it all over again tomorrow and i really don't have the time.
what else, oh yeah, i fell off my bike coming back from town, not baddly enough to be damaged, it was more embarrising, and a car for chas drove past me as i was trying to pick up my biked and shouted something indistinguishable which was nice of them.
oh, and my room is aparently the holy land for flies. i don't know where they all come from. i've got flie spray, and some of those sticky things in my window, and it works, i kill the fuckers, but then more just come. it's driving me up the fucking wall
and now fackbook isn't working again. shit. i've so had enough of today. i had a bath when i finished work to tr and mellow out abit but it just made me feel cold and wet.
am coming home tomorrow. i don't know if anyones off work and fanceys doing anything on saturday or sunday. was planning to hang around with nef, but i think she's at reading festival, lucky bitch.
will be at the pub tomorrow evning if anyone would like to join me, right now i could really do with some company, (or any social interaction that isn't with old welsh people.) should be there about 8, 8:30 ish. |
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[Aug. 20th, 2009|03:41 pm] |
this week started of pretty shit to be honest. I checked on my cells, and found that all 12 flasks had a bacterial infection. this means A) i had to through them all away and B) my sterile technique wasn't as good as i though it was.
so now i've had to start back at square one, and start growing cells up again untill i have enough to do experiments. considering it took a month untill the ones i had where ready, this is kind of shit. but helen is giving me some flasks that are full enough to do something with, so i can use some of them in my experiment, and some to grow new cells, but it's still pretty irritaing.
so i've had a really slow week.
but at least i have next weekend to look forward to. oh, and i found something to keep me occupied in the evenings, i know it sounds stupid, but i bought a 1000 piece puzzle. but it's not just any 1000 peice puzzle, it's a crystal maze puzzle, with a picture of Richard o'brian sitting in a big chair in the medevial zone with a fox by his feet. the only problem is most of it is pretty difficult, as it's all dark stone walls and straw covered floor, but atleast it's something to do.
i made a mushroom and pepper vegan quiche with a brown rice crust last night, it worked really well, and is so tasty. i swapped eggs for silken tofu, and used big portabello mushrooms in it, and it was so good. i'm still working on my plan for what i'm gonna cook at x-mas, but have mannaged to lessen my obsession with it, with i think is proberly a good thing.
weathers been pretty shit up here this past week. we had a bit of sun on saturday, but then the rain came today.
i went to telford on saturday, it's a horrible town, it makes basingstoke look charming and modern. It's like the whole town was built in the late 80's. and the train station is really far from the centre. no, i was not impressed.
not sure what i'm doing this saturday, might go for an epic cycle around the villages, then maybe catch a train to wrexham, go to the odeon. think i might give in and watch the new harry potter film. never read the half blood prince, so it migth be ok. |
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[Aug. 16th, 2009|08:58 pm] |
When i come back from a mighty quest,
I have no need for sleep or rest
i head to a tavern for a drink,
and get so drunk i cannot think.
With a wench by my side and a jug of mead,
these are the things that i most need
so I sit back back and sing thins song
and drink and party all night long.
finally bought alestorms 'Captin morgans revenge'. fuck fantastic album, but now i want rum. |
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[Aug. 13th, 2009|08:36 pm] |
Had a good week. Birmingham was fantastic, definatly expected it to be dirtyer adn more northan, but it was sunny and crowded and the vegan food shop had totti-fruity ice-cream cones (they're a company that make dairy free ice-cream) it was so very good. i ate it infont of this little effile tower that was by the big shopping centre (the bull pit, or something) and there was this dude playing the accordian. it was a bit obscure, but in a very good way.
i browsed through most of the shopps but only bought one thing, as i'm saving my money for my trip home. I got a cardigan from H&M, it's red and black leopod print, i've been oggling it for months and i finaly gave in to it's call. It looks so cute on me, i also found some really nice jeans, but they where a bit pricy and like i said, i'm trying to save my money.
I'm accually doing quite well on the budget side of things. this week, including my birmingham vist, i have spent about £70, that includes the train fare, the cardigan (£20), my weekly food shop and cigaretts, so i think thats not that bad. i've been managing to keep to £70 a week for most of my time here so far, but i think i ,ight cave just a little and buy a season of Star trek of Amazon, seeing as they're only about £15 each. the only question is DS9 or vouager? i should proberly go for DS9 because i'm trying to do it in order, and i always think of DS9 being first and vouager coming after, but i do really enjoy vouger and i only have two seasons of it (3 and 6).
works been really relaxing this week, with jim (boss) gone for 3 weeks, we don't really feel obliged to stay from 9-5, so i've been coming in in the morning (still aming for 9, cause i feel bad coming in any latter) i set up my experiment, which takes most of the moring to do, but i then have 5 hour to wait as it incubates. so i'll go have, may be watch some trash on tv, have lunch, read a bit. then i come back in for about 2, write up what i'm doing in my lab book, maybe annylise what i did the day before, then i finish off my experiment, take down the results (which means sitting in a very cold room and taking many pictures of my slide) and i'm done for the day. oh, somewhere in the afternoon i also have to sort out the routin tests for the hospital, but there are so few at the moment, that only takes about half an hour.
even with this relaxed rate of work, i show be finished with the work jim set me but the time he's back in september. i could be finished by this time next week if i wanted, but then i'd be really bored again, and i'd have to wait for ages to grow more stem cells to do the next lot of tests with. so i'll do it slowly, nice and chillaxed.
i made pesto last night (just so you know), green pesto out of butter beans and basil and a little lemon juice and some garlic. it's really tasty. i got the recipy of this 'fatfreevegan' website - http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/
there is some seiously tasty stuff on there, i know most people think, 'gross, vegan food', but you should try some of the stuff on there, that woman who writes it is some form of food goddess.
i'm going to have a look and telford on saturday, i'm not getting my hopes up, cause to be honest it looks pretty bad, but, theres a shopping centre with a costa, so worst comes to worst, i'll hide in there for a few hours and read. started 'day of the triffids' on sunday, after i finished 'Neverwhere'. (OMG Nef, it's an amazing book, the writer is a genious).
um, not much else to say, home in two weeks, ish. what say you to a trip to the white heart on the friday, i should be in basingstoke by 8 ish and could proberly do with a drink after many hours on a train.
let me know what you think,
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[Aug. 7th, 2009|09:25 pm] |
wow, i've accually been so bussy today. i find that mondays are bussy, tuesdays are boring, as are wednesdays, and thursdays and fridays are progressivly hecktic.
i got fun news today. my boss, Jim, is going no holiday for the next three weeks, and wanted to give me the outline of my prodject. so now i've got this long list of what i'm going to be doing, and he said that there is a possibilty that at the end of it, when it's all writen up, i might be able to get it published. I mean, it's not a definate, it depends on my findings, and how good the final report is, and even if thats all good, i might just be a co-author of the final paper, but it's still a fantastic thought. I gonna focus on that for the next year, that is whats gonna keep me going.
On my list of 'Things to do before i'm 30' one of the big ones is to have a paper published, and if i could do that before i've even finished my degree that would just be fucking fantastic.
So yeah, things are looking up a bit here. I've jioned the library in oswestry, which is where i've been able to get on facebook from. you can only use the internet there for 30 miutes, but it's better then nothing. god i missed facebook, i felt so out of the loop, so cut of from the rest of civilisation. but now i have access to it again, am so pleased. the library is accually really nice. good range of books, (fiction and non-fiction, they even have some vegan cook books, one of which i've already borrowed and photocopied all the good recipies out of) and some DVDs, which, although aren't free, it's gonna be a hell of a lot cheaper then buying something and only watching it once.
I'm heading ointo birmingham tomorrow for the day, i've found a vegan whole food shop called 'one earth' or some hippy ish like that. apparently they sell seitan mix, (that wheat meat stuff i tryed to make). i hope they do, although i did order some from america which arrived yesterday. i got two packs, as well as this agar powder stuff that is an ingredient in some stuff i'm gonna make, like cup cakes and orange mousse. but i think getting the mix from birmingham may be a hell of lot cheaper. think i may also look for one or two new items of clothing, i'm getting bored of the tops i've got at the moment.
yes, tomorrow will be fun.
(i have to keep going to cities on the weekends, i can't explain it, but i have this amazing urge to be in london, and being in a city is the only way i can settle it, even if it's only for a short time.)
Oh, i got a letter from alana on wednesday. i will write you back soon, may even start tonight, or maybe on the train tomorrow.
i've descovered the most amazing snack food. frozen grapes. i know it sound odd, but trust me. get some grapes and just shove them in the freezer. a frew hour latter, get them out and go nom nom nom.
um, don't have that much else to say, oh, happy birthday caroline. i think i've sent you a few birthday messages already, but i want to cover all methods of communication.
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[Jul. 30th, 2009|12:55 pm] |
I got my results letter yesterday, I got 53.42, which is a 2.2 (i think). I'm pretty pleased with that, it's a little more then i got in my first year. i got 57% in parasite and vector biology which i'm suprised about, 62% in the exam for it, and i thought i did bad in that. I think that amount of revision i did this year really shows in my exam marks, it's just some of the practical reports that drag my marks down. Hopfuly the lab practise i'm getting now will pay off when i'm doing my third year.
I've been bussyer this week which is good, i hate being bored. I've already started my prodject, even though i thought it wouldn't start for a few more months. I'm trying to get stem cells to adhere to bio-material using different chemo-kines. (sticking cells to stuff). which is all fun.
went to chester last weekend, can't say i was that impressed, the town centre is to far away from the train staition, and there wheren't enough coffee shops for my liking. going to go to shrewsbury on saturday, but in the afternoon, in the morning i'm going to the market in oswestry to see if i can get my friut and veg stuffs at really low prices. and on sunday i will just bum around.
tomorrow i will go into oswestry after work and join the libary, apparently it's got good, fast internet their, so i might be able to get on facebook. last monday i went to the IT deparment and asked if they could put me on the out-of-hours list, and they said yes they could. i wonder it they know that i ment i wanted them to do it, and i didn't just want to know if it was possible.
i got really annoyed on tuesday, i was cycling back from town about half five, six-ish. it was raining, the road was full of cars, but the pavment was empty, so, i rode on the pavement. i got shouted at but some stupid fucking community support officer, (not even a real police women)
'The pavement is for padestrians, not bikes. ride on the road, or push your bike on the pavement'
Now, i know i'm not suppose to ride on the pavement, but there was no one on it. and i'm not going on the road in town during rush hour, i'll either get killed or cause a massive road accident. any way, i pushed my bike untill she was out of site and then got back on it. fuck it.
had a got at making Seitan last night. it's this wheat gluten meat substitue. there are mixes for it, but i havent been able to find any, i think it's more of an american thing. so, i made it from scratch, the idea it you get some whole wheat flour, mix alittle water to make a dough, then rince the dough in water, untill the water stops going cloudy, and you was left with a smaller ball of dough, the consistancy of bubble-gum. what my cook book didn't say is that the dough will turn into a porridge like soup about half way though this process, and it's very hard to seperate the water and the dough. it took me three trys and about 2 hours to do it, but i can't say that it was that worth it. the seiten is ok, not very meat like, more bready, but tasty. it's just to much hassle. i've ordered some read mix of the internet, but it's coming from america, so it's pretty expensive.
the whole reason i tryed it was to try out a vegan roast recipy that i though might be good for christmas, but i don't think it will work. back to the drawing bored of christmas meal ideas. try to find something that isn't so labour intensive, and wont leave me covered in flour.
you remember me 'Vegan cup-cakes take over the world' book? well some of you might, Theres a follow up book to that now, called 'Vegan cookies invade you cookie jar'. am lusting after it, may have to get it of amazon. i've already ordered three books of it, because i finished hitch hikers guide, and it only took be a day to get half way through jekyll and hyde. oh, if i join the libary, i'll have a whole world of books at my disspossal. (awesome)
um, think that all i've got.
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[Jul. 23rd, 2009|12:54 pm] |
Went to my sisters in london last weekend, she had a Michael Jackson theme party. we put pictures up all round the walls aswell as some tastless jokes.
i was going to dress up but never got round to finding an outfit, so i just put white tape aroung my fingers.
drank ALOT of rum and talked alot to alot of people, but i don't remember what about. I think i talked about veganism to some guy, and i know i was talking about other things, but for the life of me, i can't remember what. I was very drunk.
getting to london was fine. changed at birmingham new street and went to london euston, took about 3 hours, so not that bad.
get back was ok aswell, but i was very hungover (infact, i was hung-over untill monday afternoon). i changed trains at birmingham international, and some guy in my carrage was talking to this old woman, really loudly, about really personal stuff. he was telling her all about his sexuallity and that he had just come from a fetish fair, and his problems and ideas on how kids should be raised and his opinions on the goverment etc etc. I was listerning to bits of it, and it was quite funny.
It was good to see my sister again, got to discuss whats happerning with dad and got to have a good long bitch about it.
we also had talked about Christmas, i know it's a long way away, and i wouldn't normally start thinking about my plans till middle of december, but this year i'm gonna try to enjoy it and get excited about it (seriously). i need to try out some nut roast and tofu roast recipes and figure what we're going to cook. (we're making the food again this year)
i think my mums gonna work on christmas day again this year, so we'll proberly have our christmas day on christmas eve, then emma will go to dans on christmas day, so anyone fancy having friends christmas day? god knows I proberly won't go to my dads this year, i will not be guilted into it this time. none of this 'but he's still your dad' bull shit, not this time.
so, yeah, i know it's about 5 months away, but you should know what i'm like with making plans.
work has been a little slow this week, but i think there is some proper lab work for me in the pipe line, which should be fun, or at lest time consuming. have been given free control over the hospital tests, which means i'm not a complete retard.
am still waiting for my cells to grow to great enough number so that i can do stuff with them. have to feed them tomorrow. (when i say feed them, i just mean change the media they are in. it's not like throwing a stake into the incubator. but that would proberly be quite fun.)
am going to chester on saturday, hopfully the wether will be nice for my so i can go sit in a park and read a bit. (admittably, i don't have to go to chester to sit in park/field, seriously, you have no idea how green it is around here). i've nearly finished hitch hiker's guide, am half way through mostly harmless, nearly at the bit where athur dent is a master sandwich maker. (love that bit).
next i will read Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and then i'm thinking about 'neverwhere'.
thats one good thing about being bored about 70% of the time, i've got time to read.
will also look around the markets in chester and do abit of shopping. need trousers that fit. also want some new CD's. am craving somthing in a dressden doll or maybe some ale storm.
have been riding around oswestry alot ince i got my bike. found an easy parth into the town, so i am now less likly to be run over and killed, although, on monday i went food shopping, and i was going to just get half my shopping list, but i endind up getting it all, and i had alot of trouble getting it all in my back pack and in the basket on the front of my bike, and had to push the fucking thing most of the way home, because the weight in the basket made it really difficult to keep going staight.
but i made it without dieing (crashed into a lamppost at one point, but lived to tell the tail)
have cycled to a few surounding villages but havn't found anything that fun, apart from a really big hill, which is great to go down.
um, i think thats the most of it. will come back to basingstoke last weekend of august if thats ok.
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[Jul. 16th, 2009|11:17 am] |
Guess what i have. A bike! i'm so happy with it. It's a plain white mountain bike, and it's got a basket on the front and a thing on the back to put stuff on and mud flaps on the wheels. The seats a bit high, but i can fix that. and i'm gonna get a bell i think. would proberly be a good idea, i'm not to steady on it yet, havn't ridden a bike in years, and although i remember the basic princable, i'm not exactly gracful.
have had fun with it so far though. picked it up from shrewsbury yesterday evening, rode it back to the train station (apart from the big hill, which i pushed it up, but i did get to go down the big hill aswell) had a bit of trouble getting the thing on to the train, but managed in the end, and then rode it back to the hospital from gobowen station.
will ride into oswestry after work today. so happy i don't have to rely on busses anymore. i'z has wheels.
um, not done much else this week to be honest. went to wrexham on saturday, not that impressed, but i did get really cheap fruit at a market there, oh, and i got the Lord of the rings boxset from £8. i don't think i was really paying attention when i watched it the first time when it came out. i was to bussy giggling about the homoerotic tention bettween sam and frodo, but now i have re-watched them all, i can appretiate how great those films are.
lord of the rings, a plate of rice and beans and a whole world of knitting; thats what my evenings are made of at the momment, how rock-and-roll am i. i've got two scarves i'm knitting at the momment, a big grey one, made from thin wool, it's a little scragly looking, bit in a sort of 'it's suposes to look sraggly' way.
the other is a black one made from thick soft wool, i had to get new knitting needles for that one. can't wait till there finished.
works been a little slow this week, which is why i'm writing this at half 11, on a thursday morning. i id a test for the hospital, and i'll do another one after lunch. did some lab work to do with the stem cells, oh, and got to have fun with liquid nitrogen on tuesday. there's a big barrel of it in one of the store rooms that some samples of bone marrow cells are kept, and i went with one of the post doc. girls to collect soem from there. it was cold (obviosly) and smokey and i was very tempted to put my hand in it, but mamaged to ressist.
think i am finaly settled in the nurses home. have meet more people, started talking to some guy called sam, and this student nurse called maddie, (who is pretty, but with a very thin face)she's really friendly. there is one guy who creeps me out a but, and i've started locking my door at night, but otherwuse every thing is fine.
oh, on sunday i made tasty, tasty brownies for the poeple i work with. chocolate chips (dairy free, of cause) and apple sauce (instead of butter) and choco powder, and vanilla extract and stuff. they came out really goey, the kind that stick to every part of you mouth. i'm really happy that the oven didn't destroy it, so i should be ok for baking when i'm here.
going to emma's on saturday, so looking forward to it. need a city, civilisationa dn diversity and disstance between me and farmers. i went for a walk on monday and you wouldn't beleive how many farms there are around here, all you see is cows and sheep and horses and crops of, stuff. i think i might try my hand at scrumping while i'm up here, might aswell.
um, yeah, i think thats it. oh, my boss is back, he says that he's impressed with my enthusiasm, which pleases me. oh, and my herd plants are growing like wild fire.
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[Jul. 10th, 2009|01:12 pm] |
Wow, i can't believe it's friday already. This weeks gone so fast, and this is most likly because i keep forgetting what day it is and just assuming t's tuesday.
been keeping bussy ish. feed my stem cells, which are growing quite nicly. i feel so proud when i check them under the microscope, cause their stem cells, and i'm growing them.
=have done alot of testing for the hospital and preparing blood samples for testing and logging blood samples etc etc, which is better then having nothing to do, but is getting pretty repetitive. They're letting me do most of it on my own already, which is pretty good.
um, yeah, that pretty much all i do, oh, i cleaned out a scanky incubator yesterday.
going to wrexham tomorrow to have a look round, should be interesting (ish).
Oh, am going to london next weekend, my sister is having a michael jackson tribute party on saturday. was gonna come to basingstoke for the morrning, but i can't afford a ticket to basingstoke, then to london and then back up to gobowen, which sucks. but i don't supose anyone fancys coming up to london for a party at my sisters? on the 18th?
will come to basingstoke, i think last weekend of august, 29th/30th. will come down on the fiday, go back on the sunday i think. i'm thinking picnic somewhere.
oh, got paid today, yey, money. still broke though. have to buy a bike, there are so few busses around, it makes basingstoke look good. keep checking the papers and ebay, but nothing cheap enough has come up yet.
finished 'Pride and predudice and zombies' last friday, so started to re-read hitch-hicker's guide to the galaxy. re the first book in a day and a half, but slowed down a bit after that, am just finishing of the second book.
am also knitting again (thought i might aswell as there are three wool shops in oswestry). have made a good start on a thick black scarf. i really should learn how to knit other things apart from scarfs. might get a book on kniting and have a good wack at a jumper.
my mum sent me up a big parcell that i got on tuesday. it contained my mattress topper, two bags of coffee, two boxes of filter papers (for coffee, not the smoking kind) two lots of sweetner tablets and two packs of my favourite cerial bars. what can i say, the woman knows me.
um, don't have much else to say.
oh, my address,
sylvia weeks
Room 138 Nurses home.
RJAH Orthopaedic hospital,
Oswestry,
Shropshire,
SY10 7AG.
just so you know.
miss you. |
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