Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Monday, December 13, 2010
Thursday, December 9, 2010
painting pottery
wednesday
09 december.
becky invited me to go paint pottery with her today. we had a lovely afternoon. we walked over to the place, called doodles, and spent a good 3 or so hours there. and then walked over back towards work to go have a meal at nandos. which was delicious as usual.
it was a really pleasant day. she's good people.
09 december.
becky invited me to go paint pottery with her today. we had a lovely afternoon. we walked over to the place, called doodles, and spent a good 3 or so hours there. and then walked over back towards work to go have a meal at nandos. which was delicious as usual.
it was a really pleasant day. she's good people.
bum knee
wednesday
08 december.
went to campus to use the computer to create my survey on the computer in the lab and to get the manual from terry.
he was there so i was able to get the book, but then of course it's for version 4 and the computer in the lab has version 3. so awesome. he couldn't remember what computer somewhere on campus has version 4. and of course then you have to find out how to upload the thing. and whatever. of course there are multiple steps in a ridiculous british frustrating way.
but anyway i spent more than 2 hours on that and then some other work in the office before going to the gym.
found my knee to be in excruciating pain to the point of being unable to bike so then i was walking on the treadmill which is boring. and also my ipod needed power which meant that while i could listen to music, i couldn't watch videos. i found it interesting that my knee was okay on the elliptical when i tried that to see how it would feel.
i'm hoping it doesn't hurt when i go tomorrow.
then i sadly waited 40 minutes in the super cold for a bus which took 40 minutes to get home making my trip ridiculously long.
08 december.
went to campus to use the computer to create my survey on the computer in the lab and to get the manual from terry.
he was there so i was able to get the book, but then of course it's for version 4 and the computer in the lab has version 3. so awesome. he couldn't remember what computer somewhere on campus has version 4. and of course then you have to find out how to upload the thing. and whatever. of course there are multiple steps in a ridiculous british frustrating way.
but anyway i spent more than 2 hours on that and then some other work in the office before going to the gym.
found my knee to be in excruciating pain to the point of being unable to bike so then i was walking on the treadmill which is boring. and also my ipod needed power which meant that while i could listen to music, i couldn't watch videos. i found it interesting that my knee was okay on the elliptical when i tried that to see how it would feel.
i'm hoping it doesn't hurt when i go tomorrow.
then i sadly waited 40 minutes in the super cold for a bus which took 40 minutes to get home making my trip ridiculously long.
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
venturing to campus today
tuesday.
7 dec.
it was a bit ridiculous that i had to check a number of things prior to going to campus today. although i suppose what is pretty spectacular about it is that i was able to use the internet to do so.
i needed to check twitter, the uni website, the sports centre site, the scotland transportation and bus sites (and then a look out the window) all together like some sort of crazy math equation to solve.
luckily the answer was that i could get there and that things would be open. although there weren't a lot of people.
so yay a gym trip. although boo a hurting knee.
and yay i was able to access web remark. but boo it's not quite working the way i need. we're sort of in a fight at the moment. hopefully i will conquer the software tomorrow. we'll see. i'm sure i'll have to work through the ridiculous equation again.
7 dec.
it was a bit ridiculous that i had to check a number of things prior to going to campus today. although i suppose what is pretty spectacular about it is that i was able to use the internet to do so.
i needed to check twitter, the uni website, the sports centre site, the scotland transportation and bus sites (and then a look out the window) all together like some sort of crazy math equation to solve.
luckily the answer was that i could get there and that things would be open. although there weren't a lot of people.
so yay a gym trip. although boo a hurting knee.
and yay i was able to access web remark. but boo it's not quite working the way i need. we're sort of in a fight at the moment. hopefully i will conquer the software tomorrow. we'll see. i'm sure i'll have to work through the ridiculous equation again.
skype meetings
monday
6 dec.
i tried to go to campus yesterday. i wanted to go. i really wanted to travel somewhere and go to the gym and accomplish things.
but the 'heavy' snow 'conditions' didn't allow for that.
i went to the bus stop and waited for about as long as the total journey would take, but after overhearing the guy next to me in the queue on the phone to HWU about how he was going to miss his exam and had already been waiting for the bus for far too long. so at that point, i turned around and went back home.
i did tromp through the snow to go to tesco and get some groceries though.
so i skype video met with my supervisor. which was good. worked fine until the very end of our conversation where we got cut off. was even able to pull in a professor from the other side of the hall to join in on the discussion. it worked well. i'm glad that will continue to be a resource to use. especially if the city continues to NOT handle the snow.
and it turns out that it was a good thing i didn't go in on the bus. because although they were running when i went to go, during our meeting, adrian got word that campus was canceling exams and closing campus and that public transportation stopped. so i would have been stuck there.
but i was sad that i couldn't go to the gym.
and was also a bit disappointed that the university is relying on twitter to update about weather situations. so now i'm following the bus, transportation, university, and uni sports centre twitter feeds.
6 dec.
i tried to go to campus yesterday. i wanted to go. i really wanted to travel somewhere and go to the gym and accomplish things.
but the 'heavy' snow 'conditions' didn't allow for that.
i went to the bus stop and waited for about as long as the total journey would take, but after overhearing the guy next to me in the queue on the phone to HWU about how he was going to miss his exam and had already been waiting for the bus for far too long. so at that point, i turned around and went back home.
i did tromp through the snow to go to tesco and get some groceries though.
so i skype video met with my supervisor. which was good. worked fine until the very end of our conversation where we got cut off. was even able to pull in a professor from the other side of the hall to join in on the discussion. it worked well. i'm glad that will continue to be a resource to use. especially if the city continues to NOT handle the snow.
and it turns out that it was a good thing i didn't go in on the bus. because although they were running when i went to go, during our meeting, adrian got word that campus was canceling exams and closing campus and that public transportation stopped. so i would have been stuck there.
but i was sad that i couldn't go to the gym.
and was also a bit disappointed that the university is relying on twitter to update about weather situations. so now i'm following the bus, transportation, university, and uni sports centre twitter feeds.
weekend o work
saturday, sunday
4-5 december.
worked basically all day on saturday and sunday. was able to tack on hours to the end of both shifts to get a few a more, which made the days even longer but is good in the end.
sadly nothing else to report. pretty boring.
4-5 december.
worked basically all day on saturday and sunday. was able to tack on hours to the end of both shifts to get a few a more, which made the days even longer but is good in the end.
sadly nothing else to report. pretty boring.
dailymile widget
yay, i added a daily mile widget to the page. so now it'll state my total number of kilometers on the side of the page. (which will hopefully continue to rise in a better fashion than the nanowrimo stat... in fact, i can guarantee that it will)
Friday, December 3, 2010
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
campus is closed?
really?
wow. i mean i kind of assumed, but still.
we really can't handle the snow here.
although, on a different note, my wellies work well to tromp through the slush.
and since i was on the HWU website to find out that campus is closed, i came across this article, which mentions our trashclang performance:
http://www.hw.ac.uk/news-events/2010/anniversary-celebrations-finish-with-a-bang.htm.
wow. i mean i kind of assumed, but still.
we really can't handle the snow here.
although, on a different note, my wellies work well to tromp through the slush.
and since i was on the HWU website to find out that campus is closed, i came across this article, which mentions our trashclang performance:
http://www.hw.ac.uk/news-events/2010/anniversary-celebrations-finish-with-a-bang.htm.
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