Just testing

Sorry I haven’t been updating much lately (or at all, in fact) – what with the crisis at work, starting a new paper at university, and preparing for the imminent visit of MrPloppy‘s parents, plus the remains of that cold I caught in Dunedin hanging on and sapping any energy I had left after all…

My friends (both real-life and virtual are safe) are safe, but there’s a lot of people who can’t say the same 🙁 For over a year I worked in an office opposite the entrance to Liverpool Street Station, so the images on TV were doubly shocking to me – they seemed so much more real…

Had a decent aftershock early this morning – a very noisy 5.3 that rumbled away for ages in that disconcerting way that makes you wonder if it’s going to build up into a really big one. It didn’t, but still not a good way to be woken up at 3am! The really annoying thing is…

Now that I’ve got a good stock of books to release (not that I’ve actually finished registering them all – that might take a couple of weekends!), I’ve been re-inspired to get releasing on a regular basis again. So I popped a few books in my bag to release on my way in to work…

It’s just as fiddly as I remembered it, but I’m slowly making progress. (Oh, and Yetzirah, I do sometimes use the multi-needle trick, but I don’t think I have enough needles to cover all the colours just in one of those swirls in the border!) My other creative project for the weekend was baking a…

I survived my oral!!! As you probably noticed, I was getting a bit stressed about it, and was even contemplating just not turning up for the test and forgoing the 10% of my final grade it counts for. But then the other day my tutor let slip that the lecturer who was examining us doesn’t…