PhD drudgery

It's been yet another long and ardous week, not as ardous as say climbing Mount Everest, or swimming across the English Channel, but enough. Firstly, I pretty much had to survive 3 days with no carpet at home. "What's the problem?" you might say. But thing is in England, when you've stripped off the carpets, all you are left with are blank floorboards and the dried up carpet adhesive that basically turns into dust and gets EVERYWHERE. It's friday now, and we still don't have flooring the the bathroom. Cosy. I've also decided to move from my very spacious Room 2, into Room 1 once my flatmate leaves. Even though Room 1 is a little smaller, it's got a lovely south facing balcony, which means a lot during the dreary winter months ahead. That's pretty much it for my domestic whoes.

On the work front, things are starting to shape up. I actually did work for a change whilst I was on duty last weekend. More often than not, my best intentions of my staying and working inevitably gives way to a) watching random anime/tv series/movie b) wasting time watching television c) sleeping. This weekend was a real change and left me feeling rather good about myself, despite not being able to make it to church.

Then there's the mad rush of preparing for experiments during the week. I finally got round to drawing up the thesis outline last weekend, and basically shat myself. I'm 2 years into this monster, and have only managed to accomplish what looks to be half of the work that needs to be done. Which is what spurred me on to this recent flurry of industriousness. Going to be a working weekend again. Caning the experiments today, which means I'll be sampling the nice hamster cells overnight and sleeping in the lab, again. Think I'm going to be needing a dim sum tomorrow afternoon to cheer me up.

Listening to: James Blunt - back to bedlam