J’ai fini!!
2nd Pump’s done 🙂
Blowing bubbles / Glass / Work
On the birth of an oil/mercury diffusion pump
First one’s finished!!! 🙂
On solidarity and other fragile things
I used to think solidarity was a good thing.. you know, back in the days of people helping each other and that kind of good thing. AÂ string of recent events have caused me to rethink this long-standing opinion… I’m working on my masterpiece. We were allowed to start in the middle of August, and have […]
On productivity and independence
Don’t you just love it when your project decides it wants to look like this?? Or this:
On the usual suspects
So. Here we are again. My house and me. Faced with a whole lot of chaos and a deadline and armed with only 14 hours, of which I plan to sleep through at least 8. I’m going to yet another wedding tomorrow and won’t be home until AFTER my dearest BF arrives. I’ve told him […]
On rain at lunchtime
The canteen at work is designed for people to go in, sit down, eat and leave again. It’s not designed for everyone to sit around talking once they’ve finished eating. Today it rained. Very very hard. It started raining at midday, just after I’d got to a table and sat down. The people who had […]
On polishing ones fingers
It’s not recommended. In fact, I would say you shouldn’t do it. It’s the sort of thing that can mess up your plans. Except, thinking about it, my plans mostly aren’t up to scratch, so they might as well be messed up or completely got rid of. Sometimes doing things you shouldn’t do seems to […]
On Perfect days
(Anyone who read my earlier posts – or spoke to me during May – knows I was invited to spend a week “messing about on a river” (and connecting lakes). This post should have been posted directly after getting back (mid June) but somehow wasn’t. I’m going to post it now anyway) ________________________________________________________________________________ Some days […]
On arriving early to interviews
This was a comment on a post about arriving early to interviews. I decided it’s almost worthy of it’s own post, so I’m giving it one 🙂 I arrived half an hour early to my last one too.. Only I then spent 25 minutes trying to work out if I was in the right building […]
On overnight cake-baking
“A work colleague (a nice one) and I are going to visit a super-glassblower for a couple of days and be shown how to do clever things with glass. I want to bring him and his family a cake to thank him for his time and for organising the whole thing.” I did it! 🙂 […]
On writing Revision Cards
I have decided to be super organised. Not as organised as I said I would be in October, but still a good sight better than I sometimes am. I have exams in the last week of July. My last ‘block’ (46-50 hours of lessons) is the first week of July. Usually I would finish the […]
On ‘coincidences’ (and Berlin)
On Thursday I decided to go to Berlin. Naja, ish. While it is true that I decided to go, it wasn’t entirely my decision. I was invited to a meeting. The sort that it would be silly not to go to. Some of you know why, some don’t. It’s not entirely relevant. The only relevant […]
On Pidgeons
Today my workshop was invaded by 2 pidgeons. I left for 10-15 minutes to print something in a different room, when I got back, there they were. Apparently they mate for life. I was told that by most of the people who found out about my predicament. Not that it really helped me much. But […]
On Mystery Boxes
I returned to work on Monday and was confronted with a large grey-brown box. Apparently The Colleague got wind of someone throwing it away and decided it would be a good coming-back-to-work present for me. Today, after sitting and looking at it for 2 and a half days, I got The Other Guy to drive […]
On doorkeys
Is it more worrying that I try to use my house key to unlock the workshop, or the workshop key to unlock my front door???