Yep...so today and for the rest of the week I'm avoiding work. My thesis is seriously worrying me at the moment and I need some time to get it back on track before starting the wet stuff in the lab again.
New Years was a blast, went to my local pub the Salisbury and danced away to cheesy tunes all night, without getting too devastated...
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New Years was a blast, went to my local pub the Salisbury and danced away to cheesy tunes all night, without getting too devastated...
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Going home for Christmas 
Hurrah
Going back to where I grew up in Leeds is always great, get to see my family and school friends, as well as Leeds itself. It keeps changing, but Bar North still serves good beer and my amigo Che still gets good cigars. I dunno if I will have net access over the next week so for any brave soul...
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Hurrah
Going back to where I grew up in Leeds is always great, get to see my family and school friends, as well as Leeds itself. It keeps changing, but Bar North still serves good beer and my amigo Che still gets good cigars. I dunno if I will have net access over the next week so for any brave soul...
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So, I finally managed to get hold of some Kretek cigarettes yesterday, after realising that if anywhere is going to sell midnight black cigarettes, then Camden would be it. Got myself a 20 pack of Djarums and went to the Worlds End for a pint of Guinness and cheesy '80s metal.
I love the Worlds End, even if I go alone there's always someone else...
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I love the Worlds End, even if I go alone there's always someone else...
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ta2dmom:
lol If I lived near ya, I'd offer coffee however, if I throw it from here, you certainly WOULDN'T get it. No tinsel on the crutches. I hope I won't need them much longer and I really enjoy the acronym game too it's hilarious. The other one I love is the three word story game. Good luck shopping. I have to finish too. (I have to start to be honest with you)
It was my works Christmas lunch today, no raucous partying for these precious minds. On the plus side, I unleashed the power of David Hasslehoffs Christmas album on the unsuspecting souls. Next year I'll wear the red speedos and the year after that we won't celebrate christmas any more, instead celebrating the wonderous creation that is the Hoff.
charley:
Well a beard is always a good place to start, I rather think I did the same with Bonnie Prince Billy!
I'll be honest now, this diary isn't going anywhere. My blog takes what little creative output I have at the moment, in between the hellish environ of the lab and the decadent pleasuredome of my home. I'd much rather spend the time responding to posts or checking out other members blogs . Perhaps I'm having a suicidegirls identity crisis, what exactly am I doing here?...
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smuffy:
your eyebrows are insane!!!
smuffy:
oooh eyebrows with their own snarky personality!
A whole rugby team baring its' arses and raucously singing badly pronounced french nursery rhymes is not exactly what I had expected to find in the local bar, but the image is now forever etched on my retina. I didn't even drink that much last night, but still the powers that be taunt my every move...
Last night we all went up onto the roof of the university and drank wine, looking over London as the twilight turned to full night. The millenium eye looked particularly cool, bathed in an emerald green, the BT tower distracted me with its forever changing, shimmering show.
I met some great people from Biochemistry, too much wine though, too much.
I felt it today.
Good...
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I met some great people from Biochemistry, too much wine though, too much.
I felt it today.
Good...
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First journal entry and I can feel the power surge through my fingers as I type mighty words of wisdom.
Fools ask: "But Edd, you already have a blog, can you really find content for a journal as well, whilst keeping your baccinalian life of pleasure intact?"
Edd replies: "Ha, I'll simply make shit up or sloppily rehash one entry in the other, no-one will...
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Fools ask: "But Edd, you already have a blog, can you really find content for a journal as well, whilst keeping your baccinalian life of pleasure intact?"
Edd replies: "Ha, I'll simply make shit up or sloppily rehash one entry in the other, no-one will...
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sickboyedd:
My day #9066
I better give an insight into the daily grind, if only to explain my wretched outpourings. I'm a scientist, I work in the field of evolution, more specifically behavioural ecology.
More specifically, I look at the behaviour of wasps
After 3 years, I can come up with the following:
1. Wasps don't like being touched. They will sting you if you touch them.
2. Wasps don't like you touching their nests, they will sting you if you touch them.
3. Wasps don't like you going near their nests, in fact, don't even look at them, they will sting you.
4. Wasps like stinging you.
The problem is, the more they sting me, the more I love them. I know it's a bad relationship but, deep down inside, I know wasps aren't bad. They do all the things I like to do, buzz around looking for booze and food, hanging out, going to fairs and movies andsmoking crack cocaine whilst having unprotected sex with strangers.
Just in case friends and family are reading, the last one is a joke
The good thing about my wasps is that they live in the Meditteranean basin, in southern Spain near Cadiz, so for 4 months of the year I get some sunshine and time on the beach in the name of research...
Now, however, I'm in London, it's getting darker every day and all the wasps are either dead or sleeping. Today I drank way too much coffee and spent 5 hours moving miniscule amounts of wasp DNA from one tube to another, before shoving it into a machine that makes more of it. Tomorrow I'll move that DNA into other tubes and drink an even more obscene amount of coffee. That, my dears, is science
It might sound boring, and, to be honest, the practical side of things pretty much is when I'm in the lab. But I get to hang out with a bunch of people from around the world and talk the same sort of trash I'd do at home with my flatmates, so everything is great. I never knew they had Dogtanian in Portugal, with the same music but different lyrics, every day I learn something new about the world
Righty, enough blabber from me,
Today, whilst grinding DNA, I have been mostly listening to:
Kanye West - Late Registration
dEUS - Pocket Revolution
Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
At the Drive In - Relationship of Command
I better give an insight into the daily grind, if only to explain my wretched outpourings. I'm a scientist, I work in the field of evolution, more specifically behavioural ecology.
More specifically, I look at the behaviour of wasps
After 3 years, I can come up with the following:
1. Wasps don't like being touched. They will sting you if you touch them.
2. Wasps don't like you touching their nests, they will sting you if you touch them.
3. Wasps don't like you going near their nests, in fact, don't even look at them, they will sting you.
4. Wasps like stinging you.
The problem is, the more they sting me, the more I love them. I know it's a bad relationship but, deep down inside, I know wasps aren't bad. They do all the things I like to do, buzz around looking for booze and food, hanging out, going to fairs and movies andsmoking crack cocaine whilst having unprotected sex with strangers.
Just in case friends and family are reading, the last one is a joke
The good thing about my wasps is that they live in the Meditteranean basin, in southern Spain near Cadiz, so for 4 months of the year I get some sunshine and time on the beach in the name of research...
Now, however, I'm in London, it's getting darker every day and all the wasps are either dead or sleeping. Today I drank way too much coffee and spent 5 hours moving miniscule amounts of wasp DNA from one tube to another, before shoving it into a machine that makes more of it. Tomorrow I'll move that DNA into other tubes and drink an even more obscene amount of coffee. That, my dears, is science
It might sound boring, and, to be honest, the practical side of things pretty much is when I'm in the lab. But I get to hang out with a bunch of people from around the world and talk the same sort of trash I'd do at home with my flatmates, so everything is great. I never knew they had Dogtanian in Portugal, with the same music but different lyrics, every day I learn something new about the world
Righty, enough blabber from me,
Today, whilst grinding DNA, I have been mostly listening to:
Kanye West - Late Registration
dEUS - Pocket Revolution
Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
At the Drive In - Relationship of Command