Hourglass unleashed

Last night I went to see the worst horror film that I've seen for about 25 years. The plot was non-existence, the script laughable - and we did, a lot - the acting was abysmal, and the direction... words fail me.

The worst thing though, the very worst thing, was that they had the audacity to name one of the characters Dallas!! Grrrrr!

In short, the kind of horror film that makes you afraid of being murdered on your way home, simply because everyone will then know that watching this film was the last thing you did before you died.

Hmm, I've just been invited to a party on the 23rd February.

Unfortunately it's in Oakland, California. :(

So, anyone want to give the money for a plane ticket?

:)

Someone has nicked my lab coat! I am not happy!

It wouldn't be a problem if it didn't have my dosimeter on it, but on Friday they'll be coming around to change them and they'll want to know where it is.

Plus I can't find the combs for the gels so I can't do any work anyway. Why can't people put things back where they're supposed to go?!

Aaarrrrrgggghhhhhhhhh!!!!!

Bleurgh! Anyone know where I can buy a new set of sinuses from?

In other news, I seem to have accumulated 109 notifications on my Facebook account, 90% of which are from the same 3 people!

Ho-hum. Wonder if I can do a mass delete on them all...

Oh, and sniglet, wrap up warm honey! You really don't want Scott's nasty cold to bring you down in time for Cornwall do you? :)

Right that enough time-wasting for one day. Time to head homewards I think.

Urgh, it's no good. My brain seems to have shut down for the christmas break already! Not good when you still have so much work to do!

I sat in the house and did nothing but watch Dr Who and knit yesterday. Watched the whole of the CE series, which was great, and my Jayne hat is now half done. Might be able to get it finished this evening, although I have lots to do tonight so proabably not.

Think I'll go and get some coffee to wake myself up a bit...

Huh. My boss is on the front page of the cambridge university web site.

At least we now know why he's going to India next month. :)

Hmm, that's interesting. I've just received a Grade 2 pass for my Planetary Sciences course - despite the fact that neither my exam grade nor my continuous assessment grade were above 70%, which is the cut off point for Grade 2.

I'm not going to mention it to anyone just in case they say, "Oh yeah..." and reduce me to a Grade 3... :)

Still haven't decided whether to drop M366 yet...

So I've finally come down from my Nano high and am having to cope with the realities of housework, cooking and christmas shopping once again. Yuck!

In order to cheer myself up I've signed up to do NaNoWriYe next year and fully intend to reach the 300k goal that I've set myself. If I don't keep you informed about it, feel free to hassle me! ;-)

On another, um, 'good' note, I somehow managed to win the Cambridge region's Worst Sex Scene Competition. Still not sure how I did it, and the fact that I organise the competition means that I have to present myself with the prize, which feels a little odd to say the least. :-)

My Dad seems to be going from strength to strength, and is right back to how he was before October, which is great.

The only downside of the past few months is that due to my Dad being ill all the way through October, and my commitments to Nano during November, I have had no time whatsoever to get any work done for my OU course. As a result I've written to my tutor and told him that I will not be submitting the first assignment tomorrow. I spent an hour on the course forum last week reading through all the complaints about the course from some of the other students and to be honest, I'm now 90% sure that I'm just going to drop out of this course completely and sign up again either next autumn or the year after. I always knew that taking a course in its first year of presentation was going to be hard (I've done it once before), but this one is particularly bad in my opinion. I'll step back and allow them to sort out of the errors and then come back to it.

Besides which, I haven't had a break from studying since I finished my MSc in 2002 and I could really do with getting away from it for a while. It's not as if I don't have anything else to fill my spare time with after all. :-)

I'll wait until January to make a final decision though. I am talking about losing nearly £400 after all.

My Dad went back to work today, woohoo!

Oh and my current word count is 7592 words.

So I took your advice (Thanks everyone who commented on my last post) and went down to the police station to report the incident. Turns out that they can't do anything at all unless it happens another two times. The only thing the desk bod could suggest I do was to make lots of notes about exactly what happened, and do the same if it ever happened again. Then he gave me a phone number to ring once it had happened three times. At which point, they can then send someone round to see her and 'have a word'.

In the meantime, they can't even keep a record of it, mainly because she didn't actually break any laws - just pissed a lot of people off by driving down a main road at 3mph and shouting at me!

I'm left feeling rather sorry for her. I'm assuming that the whole thing won't happen again (at least not with me) and therefore, won't ever actually get to the '3 times equals harrassment' stage that would mean that someone in some kind of position of authority would then intervene and get her the help she so obviously needs.