h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I’m feeling a bit lethargic today. I’m a little disenchanted with my work at the moment because I’m still waiting on GSK for some results. There’s other things I’m doing to fill in time, but that’s just exactly what I’m doing: filling in time. Anyway, if I’m honest, that’s probably just an excuse to begin the long, slow wind down for Christmas.

So what’s been going on lately? Well, as I said, at the weekend my girlfriend and I went to see my goddaughter. We had a really lovely weekend sitting around relaxing and talking and drinking endless cups of coffee. My goddaughter is amazingly cute (I know I’m supposed to say that, but nevertheless it’s true) I took loads of photos. I can’t get over how quickly babies grow. It’s been about three or four months since I saw her last and she’s literally doubled in size.

When we got back on Sunday night my girlfriend’s housemates had cooked a massive Christmas dinner with all the trimmings so we literally walked into the house and sat down to a slap up meal. I had quite a lot of wine to drink and ended up walking to the pub for last orders. It ended up being another late night by the time I’d walked home (I live about an hour’s walk from my girlfriend).

I had to drag myself out of bed at a vaguely reasonable time yesterday because we had a chemistry conference in Bristol to go to. Maybe I was a bit tired, but I kind of wish I hadn’t bothered. Most of the talks were fairly dull and weren’t really related to the sort of chemistry I’m “interested” in. I dozed through a lot of it, read my book for a while and usefully employed some time drawing a design for my Christmas cards this year.

Tomorrow is the departmental Christmas meal and although I had a big Christmas dinner only two days ago and turkey curry last night I’m really looking forward to it. I know it takes a lot of organisation, but it’s always really nice to see a whole bunch of people from the department out together and Christmas is really the only time we actually manage it. And of course, everyone’s usually in a pretty good mood because it is Christmas after all.

Anyway, I guess that’ll do for now. I’m off for a cup of tea.