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Another Apology...
Posted Feb 7, 2005
...to anyone who might read this. I always seem to be apologising in these pages, usually for adding to them so seldom. Well it's going to be even more seldom from now on, cos work have offered me full time work. I thought it was going to start from April but I've just had a call saying they can backdate it to February.
So I won't be around much at all now. Unless I get really bored when I'm "working at home"!
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Shamelessly cut and pasted from another thread...
Posted Sep 8, 2004
Potted history of 2 weeks in Sri Lanka (in no particular order):
1. It was hot.
2. There were LOADS of elephants. And birdies (eagles, kingfishers, egrets, storks, cranes, ect ect) and lizardy things and flying foxes and jackals and some nice moggies too.
3. We got eaten by leeches, one person in a most uncomfortable place.
4. Sri Lanka produces prodigious amounts of excellent 
but they don't know a damn thing about 
. I'm sure that smiley really ought to be a , you know.
5. There were LOADS of bananas, pineapples and coconuts.
6. The food was excellent, if a little predictable. Let's see, what shall we have for breakfast/lunch/dinner today? Ooh how about rice and curry?
7. They make stuff called Arack out of coconut nectar, fermented then distilled. Evil stuff, brought 2 bottles back.
8. If you ever go there take loads of biros to give to the kids instead of sweets (absence of dental care, y'see)
9. Despite anti malaria precaustions we had more hassle from bedbugs than mosquitoes.
10. Digital cameras are great. And compact flash cards are cheaper in Sri Lanka even than Dixons at Heathrow.
OK 10's enough. It was great but it's nice to be home where there are no leeches or bedbugs.
Actually I have to add a number 11 - I had a couple of ayurvedic massages while I was there, including one administered by 2 women - rather a strange experience! I've brought back some very smelly ayurvedic herbal infused massage oil and some herbal balm but I can't remember what herbs they said were in it. Now I need to test it on someone!
As has happened many times I have come back from holiday feeling inspired to get down to doing some proper aromatherapy on my days off - let's see if I can bypass the procrastination bug this time. I'd also like to get round to starting yoga again, maybe a Tai Chi class, do that Biology A level I keep saying I want to do and learn to make silver jewelry too while I'm at it...
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An Update
Posted Aug 13, 2004
Three months since the last entry. Shameful really. But more a case of lethargy than apathy or overwork.
Let's see, what can I report?
Since finishing the OU course I'm still working 3 days with no sign of any increase in hours yet. I need to change my car so the extra dosh would come in handy, but this seems to fall on deaf ears, even when we're overworked and deadlines loom. Hey ho, their problem not mine.
But the spare time is nice, even though so far I've pretty much frittered it away rather than doing anything useful, like trying to lose weight/get fit, or actually coming up with a proper Guide Entry on Something Interesting.
Off on holiday to Sri Lanka next week - can't wait. Maybe it will inspire me to come up with something for hootoo.
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It's over
Posted May 13, 2004
Yep. Now I have my life back, no more studying, no more exams...well not until the resit anyway. The exam was cr*p. Well my answers were, anyway. And yes I know I always say that and I always do ok, or even more than ok, but this time it really was awful.
Still, all that free time is now available to spend decorating and cleaning and doing all those things I've been putting off until After the Exam. Which was 2 weeks ago and I've got through, ooh, at least one of the items on the list...
So tell me, am I still allowed to call my PS Displacement Central?
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Ah! Sweet Displacement
Posted Apr 22, 2004
Well it's like this. My last exam (I truly hope that at the tender age of forty-coughcough that it really is the last, ever) is next week. Revision? Well I've printed out the tutor's revision notes, and I've even start to read them! I've glanced at the practice paper, rejoiced in the suggestion that a couple of sections will more than likely be relevant to more than one question, and, er, that's about it.
And today's Star Prize for Distracting Myself goes to....
.....Yes! It's Rearranging the Towels in the Cupboard so that they Fit in a More Pleasing Way! DaDa!!
Having sorted out the airing cupboard last night, it really was the only option open to me. There is a bed of onions that needs weeding but it's just a wee bit too cloudy and a bit too much like exercise, so the towels it had to be.
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