Kate’s allegedly a human (although increasingly right-wing bigots would say otherwise). She’s definitely not a vampire, despite what some other people claim. She’s also mostly built out of spite and overcoming oppositional-sexism, racism, and other random bullshit.
So she’s either a human or a lizard in disguise sent to destroy all of humanity.
Either way, she’s here to reassure that it’s all fine.
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Quick desk trial
So, the desk is built. It took me most of the morning to shift the boxes in the spare room over to the other side of the spare room; pausing en route to extract a few random bits of desk ephemera. I now need to go down to the garage and extract one of the…
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Post nights productivity
So, 2 nights at my new hospital trust. The second night ended on that special kind of high available only when a drunk/high patient attempts to assault you. You’ve got to be quick to work in the ED, and thankfully, last night I was quick. Their kicks and punches (for there were two of the…
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Err, oops?
So I finally got around to putting down the plastic sheeting, digging out the steam stripper and set to on the final downstairs wall. Well, apart from the teeny one next to the kitchen door. Now, prior to this job, on every wall (I think) the sockets had not been refitted when I was steam…
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Getting back into the swing, err, a bit.
So, the house is actually progressing. And I did, with some effort, persuade myself to do work on Chester. Chester, as you may recall, had a failed water pump. I fitted a new one, however, I made a pig’s ear of it. Indeed, possibly more of a dog’s breakfast of multiple pig’s ears. It leaked,…
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Lifestyle change
So, despite the hideous weather and a real inclination to light the fire, sit inside and let the rain fall all day I’ve not done that. I’ll grant I was slow to get going, but once I was moving I’ve been productive, useful and frankly, good. Having done a little favour for my friends I…
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Back Online
So, for the past week and a bit I’ve been suffering from absence of laptop. My much loved MacBook (not a Pro, just a plain MacBook) had a teensy bit of a screen problem. In that about a 1.5″ wide strip of the screen was intermittently not working. I did, unintentionally sit on it ages…
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Sucky birthday gift…
My poor car managed to ferry me to work and back for a week despite an increasingly sickly diff. I was aiming for breakfast this morning with Nikki & family. As I pulled away from a set of lights there was a noise. Well, more a succession of noises. If you imagine putting grit and…
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The stress seems to have found its way back in.
So, *BREATHE*. I’ve not been this stressed for a while. The 3000 word literature review I’m deeply unhappy with. The underlying research is…not appropriate. I should have spotted it when I started reviewing it, but honestly, I reviewed it in between shifts and on trains and didn’t quite twig that it was such utter shite…
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Bonus prevarication (getting the stress out)
So. I’ve got 1500 words to write through this next week (in which I’m on nights). Those 1500 words? They are on a subject that I know about in loose, nursey, I know how to treat it and roughly what the guidelines say* way, but not in a deep ‘I know what the papers say…
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I want to ride my bicycle…
I may have used that title before… err, so, if I have, put it down to a lack of imagination and too much Queen. So, I actually made good on my promise to go down to the garage. My bicycle now sports front and rear lights (although the front light is somewhat interestingly placed). I…