Best laid plans
Yeah. Well. Ummm. All the stuff I meant to do today was kinda thrown out of the window! It's been really nice and I've been dressing up like a Power Ranger once again (since this is what people think I look like!) and enjoying a nice bit of a jaunt. Great stuff. Did get the food shopping done, but none of the paperwork and passport photos and the like! Oops! But I can do that tomorrow. Tonight's plans have also been mildly axed owing to a) not knowing where to go, b) a desire for a long bath, c) not wanting to go out afterwards, which I probably would do if I went (because I have no willpower at all). Apologies Claire, I'll catch your next one! And apologies to everyone else, but I just feel like being crap this evening.
Mixed thoughts throughout the day, not helped by the fact I managed to cascade my lunch all over the city street, grabbing after the newspaper that was escaping. Bugger, eh? A shed-load of food just wasted, that I'd paid good money for.
Need to ring Matt and Ade this evening, Matt because I missed him yesterday and want a chat, and Ade because I need to talk seeing him in Brizzle come April. Which isnt that far away. Time flies, eh?
Hmmmmmm.
I really had a lot to talk about before I actually started typing! No doubt it'll come to be later, but just now it's all been forgotten. Perhaps a good thing? Maybe I'm weighing my life down with too much thinking. A bit of a sit will sort that out - and I really must contact these Zen buggers again because I said I would, and I really need to get back with a sitting group!
Oh yes, one thought of the day. There was a big article in the paper about postgraduates and career development. Kinda depressing, because it was banging on about employability of postgraduates and skills they have and blah blah blah. Really gets me down, as if we all did Phds because we were only after the employment prospects. It's a crying shame that people only see it that way. I for one dont see it like that, I did mine because I wanted to learn more about chemistry, which still fascinates me to this day, not so that I could add a load of skill factors to a CV. People shouldnt do these things just to put on a list. And the whole marketing round of yourself is such crap too, it's filling in a tick box and jumping through hoops crap; and has generated it's own PANTS industry of recruitment, that bears sooooo little to what people actually end up doing in their jobs. And spinning all your experiences into career positive lights; some stuff we do is just for the pure fun of it. And I'd be more articulate about this if I wasnt so worked up!
Oh yes, and a very interesting article by Tom Stoppard about free speech in the Guardy, very thought provoking, and certainly accounts for where it all goes wrong with people decrying the impingement of their rights; some of which is complete bollocks in my opinion. Controversial.
Dinner tonight: do I make the lamb curry or do I make the sausagey-pasta-y thingummy? Probably the sausage jobby because it's easier, and I'm feeling a little bloated after the extensive potato episode yesterday. Mash is such a lovely thing, but I always manage to make far too much and overdose on it, which is not so lovely.
On that note - adieu!
Mixed thoughts throughout the day, not helped by the fact I managed to cascade my lunch all over the city street, grabbing after the newspaper that was escaping. Bugger, eh? A shed-load of food just wasted, that I'd paid good money for.
Need to ring Matt and Ade this evening, Matt because I missed him yesterday and want a chat, and Ade because I need to talk seeing him in Brizzle come April. Which isnt that far away. Time flies, eh?
Hmmmmmm.
I really had a lot to talk about before I actually started typing! No doubt it'll come to be later, but just now it's all been forgotten. Perhaps a good thing? Maybe I'm weighing my life down with too much thinking. A bit of a sit will sort that out - and I really must contact these Zen buggers again because I said I would, and I really need to get back with a sitting group!
Oh yes, one thought of the day. There was a big article in the paper about postgraduates and career development. Kinda depressing, because it was banging on about employability of postgraduates and skills they have and blah blah blah. Really gets me down, as if we all did Phds because we were only after the employment prospects. It's a crying shame that people only see it that way. I for one dont see it like that, I did mine because I wanted to learn more about chemistry, which still fascinates me to this day, not so that I could add a load of skill factors to a CV. People shouldnt do these things just to put on a list. And the whole marketing round of yourself is such crap too, it's filling in a tick box and jumping through hoops crap; and has generated it's own PANTS industry of recruitment, that bears sooooo little to what people actually end up doing in their jobs. And spinning all your experiences into career positive lights; some stuff we do is just for the pure fun of it. And I'd be more articulate about this if I wasnt so worked up!
Oh yes, and a very interesting article by Tom Stoppard about free speech in the Guardy, very thought provoking, and certainly accounts for where it all goes wrong with people decrying the impingement of their rights; some of which is complete bollocks in my opinion. Controversial.
Dinner tonight: do I make the lamb curry or do I make the sausagey-pasta-y thingummy? Probably the sausage jobby because it's easier, and I'm feeling a little bloated after the extensive potato episode yesterday. Mash is such a lovely thing, but I always manage to make far too much and overdose on it, which is not so lovely.
On that note - adieu!
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