Thinking about Nepal
Just finished writing a blog post for our CEISMIC blog about the Nepal earthquake, so rather than re-cover the same ground here, I’ll just post a link.
Actually, I thought I’d finally finished my modelling a few days ago, but I met with my supervisors today, and they’ve recommended I run a few more, so it’s back to sitting waiting for models to run. In the meantime, I’ve started writing up what I’ve done so far, and I’m making ok progress –…
It’s been a busy couple of weeks. Fuzzle was here for most of the first week – it was great to see her, and we had loads of fun (plus she cooked the most amazing enchilladas for dinner one night – who knew she’d turn out such a good cook after all those barely edible…
irst Toastmasters meeting of the year tonight, and as always it was a lot of fun. I was the “Table Topics Master”, in charge of the impromptu speaking section of the meeting. I did have a set of prompts prepared to use to assign speaking topics, but as it turned out we had a huge…
Well, so far the world hasn’t ended. Although I’ve had various people tell me it’s actually going to end at 11.11 pm, or 12.11 pm, or when it’s midnight on the 21st in America (though they were a bit vague on exactly which time zone), or…. Actually, what I reckon happened is that the Mayan…
n the corner of my lounge is a small bookcase. It’s quite narrow, so I’ve got it on a slight angle, leaving just a small gap behind it (you can see where this is going already, can’t you?). A few minutes ago, I heard a scrabbling sound coming from the lounge… yep, from behind the…
In theory, I should be at the university writing my research proposal. Up until an hour or so ago, that’s where I was. Except then the ground started shaking (again), in a big and scary enough way that taking shelter under my desk seemed like a good idea (ok, and there may have been a…
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thanks for the link to a thoughtful post and appeal for compassionate donations. I am preparing donation envelopes for a Nepal appeal at our church beginning this Sunday. They need every rupee they can get.