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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Getting it off my chest (again)
Anyone who has the misfortune to be near me when I’m doing research or who follows my twitter stream (@pyoor) will probably have encountered my rants about doing literature searches and finding papers. Essentially, it boils down to this. It doesn’t work very well. For those of you who’ve not had the joy of searching…
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A Happy Thanksgiving
So, yesterday we celebrated (slightly belatedly) Thanksgiving. And it rocked. While, as we put it gently, the history of Thanksgiving’s a bit…well…dubious. The whole family friends gathering / giving thanks for what you’ve got / etc idea is something I rather like. And Sweet Potato Casserole rocks my little world. So the menu was pretty…
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Slight downer
So, the sink waste I fitted leaks. Badly. Like laughably badly. Insanely so. I’m waiting for it to dry out so I can endeavour to fix it tomorrow, but really? I’ve never quite understood how to get them to seal well. I follow the instructions, I have my little bit of plumber’s mate, and it…
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I know, I suck at updating
So. Yes. Update. I’ve mainly been on nights, y’see. And Kathryn’s mom was here (which was lovely, I wish it could have been longer – it went far too quickly). And yeah. So. There has been progress. The worksurfaces went in* and I started the tiling around the worksurface to provide a splashback. This was…
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Quickie
So, another day in the life post of renovation. When we started this project we had an unrealistic timescale, more because of initial difficulties getting a builder than any specific schedule issues; then expenses went a bit, well, I probably shouldn’t have built the garage… Which meant that we had to prep and paint the…
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Knackered but there’s been progress
So, the plan for today was to nip out, have a hair cut, grab some wine boxes, head home and tile. It didn’t quite work exactly like that. I woke up at 5:30 (having gone to bed after midnight) and thought ‘oh, I’m not asleep anymore’. I stayed not asleep for an hour before deciding…
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Sucky teeth noises
So, outside of attempting to ‘do’ the kitchen and my exciting and exotic literature search (Combine: ‘organ’ and ‘donation’ AND (‘premortem’ OR ‘antemortem’ OR ‘perimortem’) to hopefully yield useful results on treatment of people going for organ donation after an imminent death), I’ve been thinking about the ‘EntMac’. Yes, this is a faintly computercentric post,…
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A message for James
Here, James, have you changed your mobile number / do you still check Facebook? Only we were wondering if you wanted to come for Thanksgiving… Also, you might already know Girls Love Shoes, but if not, you might like them:
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Just a brief kitchenalia comment
So, the project over the next two weeks is to complete the kitchen/dining space. At the same time as doing my MSc. I’m not very good at balancing these things, and may have to switch around to ‘MSc first then do stuff on kitchen’. Mainly because I’m knackered come the evening when I settle down…
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26 hours and counting
Yes, it’s time for the traditional trying to stay awake coming off nights ramble. I’ve now been awake for 26 hours (approx) and am really, really tired. Having finished a fairly busy shift (the beginning was really busy), been told I’m racist (against one specific white person) and sat in a very long queue to…