All quiet on the eastern front...
Hi everyone,
As usual I'm in the red when it comes to owing people emails, so i'm afraid I've been reduced to a blog post. Apologies, i'll try to get in touch with you all individually soon. Those of you that already know what I'm up to should probably skip straight to the photos!
It has been a long time since I last wrote, but life back in Norfolk hasn't been, err, quite as exciting as the Antarctic...
To aleviate this paucity of excitment, and reintroduce some mayhem, my housemate Dave and I held a party, which we called DrOSTOCK. As it was to mark Dave's leaving for a job in California, we tried to give it an American theme. It went something like this....Once upon a time, deep in the Norfolk fens the sun shone on a camping barn, and a mountain of beer mysteriously appeared. Captain America and Monika Lewinski welcomed their 80+ guests and proceeded to get, in the words of a lurching hillbilly who claimed to be someone's Dad, "absolutely f**king bladdered". Everyone had lots of fun going wild in the country, dancing, drinking and burning things. By the next morning (OK mid-afternoon...) the mountain of beer had vanished again, the hungover survivors had dragged themselves away, and peace was restored...to see what the hell i'm going on about, have a look at the photos (linked right) and the videos (beware these take about ten mins to download with broadband though!).
Aside from DrOSTOCK it has been a chaotic few months, with a few big changes and emotional traumas, along with quite a bit of drinking, running, yoga and drinking. As well as the departure of my fantastic housemate Dave (miss you mate!) to California, I'm very sad to say that I've broken up with my boyfriend Casey and so I won't be moving to Edinburgh anymore. Instead I'm staying in Norwich, the end of the third year of my PhD is drawing frighteningly close but is not encouraging me to write faster, yet...The general plan is to try and get a research job once I'm done, although I'm still interested in science writing too. A few exciting career things have happened - I got my first paper accepted for publication (in Marine Chemistry if you care), I'm off to Hawaii for a meeting in October, and I've just found out that I'm a runner up in a New Scientist essay competition! So I can't really complain about things!
Anyway, I'm sure that's more than most of you want to read already!! I hope all of you are all well and happy, and to hear from you or see each of you soon.
Have a good time all the time!!
Love
R x
As usual I'm in the red when it comes to owing people emails, so i'm afraid I've been reduced to a blog post. Apologies, i'll try to get in touch with you all individually soon. Those of you that already know what I'm up to should probably skip straight to the photos!
It has been a long time since I last wrote, but life back in Norfolk hasn't been, err, quite as exciting as the Antarctic...
To aleviate this paucity of excitment, and reintroduce some mayhem, my housemate Dave and I held a party, which we called DrOSTOCK. As it was to mark Dave's leaving for a job in California, we tried to give it an American theme. It went something like this....Once upon a time, deep in the Norfolk fens the sun shone on a camping barn, and a mountain of beer mysteriously appeared. Captain America and Monika Lewinski welcomed their 80+ guests and proceeded to get, in the words of a lurching hillbilly who claimed to be someone's Dad, "absolutely f**king bladdered". Everyone had lots of fun going wild in the country, dancing, drinking and burning things. By the next morning (OK mid-afternoon...) the mountain of beer had vanished again, the hungover survivors had dragged themselves away, and peace was restored...to see what the hell i'm going on about, have a look at the photos (linked right) and the videos (beware these take about ten mins to download with broadband though!).
Aside from DrOSTOCK it has been a chaotic few months, with a few big changes and emotional traumas, along with quite a bit of drinking, running, yoga and drinking. As well as the departure of my fantastic housemate Dave (miss you mate!) to California, I'm very sad to say that I've broken up with my boyfriend Casey and so I won't be moving to Edinburgh anymore. Instead I'm staying in Norwich, the end of the third year of my PhD is drawing frighteningly close but is not encouraging me to write faster, yet...The general plan is to try and get a research job once I'm done, although I'm still interested in science writing too. A few exciting career things have happened - I got my first paper accepted for publication (in Marine Chemistry if you care), I'm off to Hawaii for a meeting in October, and I've just found out that I'm a runner up in a New Scientist essay competition! So I can't really complain about things!
Anyway, I'm sure that's more than most of you want to read already!! I hope all of you are all well and happy, and to hear from you or see each of you soon.
Have a good time all the time!!
Love
R x
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