life

Is it Friday?

June 23, 2007

Yes, I do believe it is. That means my mad week of conferences is over. The last two days have gone very quickly, and I've managed not to really get jetlag, although I did quite spectacularly run out of energy at 10pm last night, as if someone had just pulled the plug. I'll leave the […]

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The many faces of jetlag, or, The real enemy is sleep deprivation

June 21, 2007

I think it's Wednesday. I could be wrong. In some time zone, and to pick a random one, say BST, I am. I'm not sure what time zone it feels like, but I know the feeling of sleep deprivation any day of the week. I'm learning that jetlag isn't predictable. Like altitude sickness, it doesn't […]

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The existential pain of taking laptops in for repair

May 22, 2007

I have so much I want to blog about at the moment, but I've just been up to my eyeballs in stuff, and by the time I get to 10pm, I really don't want to be on the computer anymore. I have to take my Macbook in for repairs very soon and it's causing me […]

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10.20 on a Sunday night

May 13, 2007

Probably not the best time to be blogging, but I am trying to blog more these days, so I'm going to anyway. Next week will see a shift from blogging here to blogging more at Strange Attractor, as I'm off to Xtech in Paris on Tuesday, and not back til late Thursday night. I've a […]

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New bookshelves make for a happy Suw

May 12, 2007

I will admit that the flat has really been getting me down lately. It's very easy for such a small space to descend into untidiness very quickly when you've got too much stuff that doesn't have a specific place to live. And of course, working from home doesn't help matters – you just end up […]

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Kitten, gym and mouse updates

May 9, 2007

It's not been quite so easy to blog every day over the long weekend – I had imagined that our time would be fairly free, but it didn't quite work out like that. Not a small amount of time was spent attempting to locate the kittens, Castor and Pollux, who appear to have become escape […]

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Enjoying the countryside

May 6, 2007

Kevin and I have been out and about yesterday and today. Yesterday we were in Ringwood buying various birthday pressies and then chilling out at the Sheaf of Arrows in Cranborne. Today we went to Corfe Castle and then Lulworth Cove, along with a lot of other bank holiday weekend visitors. i took my camera […]

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Save Penryn!

May 3, 2007

(Details tomorrow.) …. ok, so I cheated. Bite me.

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My darkest secret*

May 2, 2007

I was sitting on my couch this afternoon, slaving away over a hot laptop, when I heard this amazingly loud chirping. It sounded for a moment as if some bird had managed to get into the flat and was, quite possibly, sitting on my shoulder, cheeping. I was pretty sure that there wasn't a small […]

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Bluebells in the Chilterns

April 29, 2007

Kevin and I went walking in the Chilterns today with our friends Fiona, Phil and Karina. The bluebells are providing a magnificent display at the moment, and the bluebell woods are quite the most beautiful I've ever seen. It was just blue as far as you could see, and the fragrance was fabulous. We only […]

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Gym progress

April 28, 2007

Just a short post today, because it's Saturday, and I'm knackered, and Kev and I are about to curl up with each other and in the Company of Wolves. The film, that is, not the large furry canine. Frankly, if we were going to curl up with anything furry, it would be a small, cute […]

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On my radio

April 24, 2007

The weird thing about yesterday – other than the fact that I went to the gym and wrote three blog posts – was that I didn't turn the radio on all day. Usually I have XFM on from the moment Kevin leaves for work til the moment he comes home. Last year I struggled with […]

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Excuse me? Where are my endorphins?

April 23, 2007

Yesterday, as per Saturday's post, Kevin and I went to our gym induction sessions at the local leisure centre, where the lovely Frances introduced us to the machinery. Now, I've never been to a gym before. I used to go to Tai Chi twice a week and, for a while back in the mid 90s, […]

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And the great thing about blogs is…

April 22, 2007

That whilst I am suffering once again from wisdom tooth ache and a cold – simultaneously… oh the delight – I can tell you precisely how long it's been since my last cold and last bout of toothache. Because I blogged them. The last cold started as this one did with a sore throat and […]

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And the great thing about living here is…

April 21, 2007

When I found the flat that Kevin and I currently call home, I remember thinking how well positioned it was. Waitrose only 5 mins away. Holloway Road just 10 mins away. And a gym literally on the corner, just a short walk away. We moved in and promised each other that we'd join up to […]

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