Ian has about a year and a half's worth of leave, from what I can make out, so he is busy having lots of time off. I am just having continual time off, except I am not really - I have put in my initial application for the PhD, crossed all appendages, and am now trying to work myself up to write the funding application which is far, far scarier. In fact I went to a meeting at the Institute today which only managed to change my mood from confused and scared to bewildered and petrified. Ah, the joy! I got chatting to a French girl there so we took ourselves off for lunch down at the Mary Ward afterwards, and altogether it was quite exhausting.

This past week I've been up chez parents, and Ian came up for a few days as well, so we got to go to Stratford - to the new theatre, which is terribly funky, like the Swan but three times as big - and of course we went shopping, and we went driving over to Ludlow and went up Clee hill to the old quarry workings, and we went into Birmingham and met up with Chris. This was also all quite exhausting.

For the rest of the month previous I have merely been ill, lacking any energy, going through flu, coughs, colds, anything else that happens to come way way, and several boxes of tissues, hot drinks, karvol capsules, and general misery. And to be honest I am not showing much signs of improvement. Hi ho. Perhaps March will be better.

* posted by nat 9:34 PM

Thursday, February 01, 2007

I have Karvol!

Karvol and Maltesers make a great cold remedy.

* posted by nat 6:21 PM