My goodness. I've not posted anything of substance since Saturday.

Well, I had a great weekend. Did a small bit of work, did a small bit of Christmas shopping then went to stay with Gemma. We got takeaway pizza and watched The Machinist with a freakishly skinny Christian Bale. It was horribly brilliant.

I was pretty jealous of Gemma's very beautiful flat - she's decorated it right nice. And turning 27 this week I felt a bit of a loser that I have yet to qualify and yet to buy a house but my baby sister has done all of these things. But then I'm not prepared to work the crazy hours she does so fair's fair. And I got my own back by flooding her bathroom.

Not my fault. Stupid fancy square taps. I was in the shower and adjusting the cold tap with my foot, a tried and tested method in my own bathroom. I applied slightly more pressure than was necessary and turned the ice cold water on full blast. The water pressure was such that the shower head started to rear up. I was a bit on the frozen and shocked side, and by the time I had worked out what was happening, turned the cold water off and wrestled the shower head back to its rightful place, there was about an inch of water on the floor. Nicely done.

Then ma and pa popped up to deliver birthday pressies. I got GREAT pressies this year. Including one of these things...



A 'Time Machine'!!! Isn't it cool? It's a dock for your pod which is also an alarm clock - you can either be woken up by your pod or by the radio. It's so funky looking, it really does look like a portal to another world, like if you put your arm through it, it would actually disappear. Also when I opened the card from ma and pa a massive butterfly flew out! It was a huge cardboard butterfly with a simple elastic band mechanism that you wind up before putting it in the card, so when you open the card the things flies out right at you. Shit myself I did. I jumped a mile. But it was brilliant - it looks like a real butterfly in flight. Genius.

But mostly I've been silly busy this week, hence the lack of posting. I actually managed to do no work at all on my birthday but I have been out seven nights in a row. I am sleep deprived and a bit manic. I have just over 2 months left to finish all my lab work - I may have to admit defeat and lay off the blogging for a while. I'm sure I'll still find time to read and comment and that, but I just can't keep up at the moment. It won't be forever though I guess. REALLY looking forward to it all being over...