MEMEHUNTER

No one's here except me and the research assistant.

Morning All.

Sorry, it's been a while. Again, it's not as if I've been doing anything ESPECIALLY exciting... been working my buns off the past week. I'm going home to London tomorrow, so my supervisor's been crawling all over my intellect, compelling me to do "a year's worth of work in 2 days" (yes, he said that) for the Industrial Sponsor-dudes who are coming to see what shakes in a fortnight or so. Woo.

Also been putting that talk that keeps surfacing together. Was kind of ready to go yesterday... getting bits and bobs changed, finishing touches to slides etc. Thinking "you know, this could be ok" when the fire alarm goes off. Turns out someone called in a bomb threat.

Seriously. A bomb threat.

And no, it wasn't me.

So we evacuated the department. Didn't look as if anyone warned Theology over the way. Ah well. Sat in a coffee shop over the road with labmates and supervisor and watched the fire engines come and go. Bomb squad and everything. During this time I entirely loose my motivation and desire to give a talk on the effects of social condition on pheromone detection, which everyone tells me is fair enough.

Entertainingly, the building is given the all clear 5 minutes before the talk is due to begin. The convener seems to be intent on carrying on as normal. In a small amount of panic, I had to get my supervisor to say "no, no, he doesn't have to". So ha. Another 2 weeks. Guess it had better be something fairly special though.

Oh, it will be.

Have begun my life-streamlining by getting rid of an awful lot of hair. Never had my head clippered before. I quite like it. Certainly means I get out of the house earlier in the mornings.

Some drama last night. In pub with various. Labmate Mike got a leetle drunk, as did we all... was feeling argumentative. Made someone else cry then went home. Blimey. Nearly lost my rag with him... had to remember to breathe.

Guess I'd better crack on with these faces, really. Sigh.

Matlab, ho!

posted by Memehunter @ 10:45 AM