Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Broadbanded!

Finally. Although i don't have a desk and all i do from home is work anyway. So here, look at a picture of me looking surley with the team that built one of the two instruments that i work on.



I know its a crappy photo. I'm not planned enough to have a post ready to go, so i had to make one up on the fly. This is what you get.

We need furniture. What are those tiny rodent-like creatures called that are related to anteaters and their whole life is spent running high-speed around a series of tracks that they must have memorised in order to avoid being eaten by flying predators? My house is like that now, without the flying predators.

And I have developed insomnia. Well, its not really insomnia - not true insomnia, but i wake up at 3 am and stay awake dreaming of being queen of the universe/inventing a new phase of matter/ finding built in wardrobes for less than a thousand bucks, etc. Usually until about 4 or 4.30 am. Its getting on my nerves. I think i need to excercise more, but I also think I'm getting sick.

Mikl is in Japan. I came home early to get broadband installed (hence the posting) and cooked myself some gluten free pasta for lunch. Not impressive on it's own, i know, but get this - i ate the cooked equivalent of 750 g of uncooked pasta with an entire (750 g) jar of pasta sauce and anchovies. I just started eating and could stop. That was at 1.30pm. Its 6.30pm and i don't think I'll ever eat again. What is happening to me?!

Anyway - I'm stressed, as usual. Any ideas for de-stressing?

The new reactor is ofiicially being opened this week - the prime minister is coming out on Friday and tomorrow is the science and buisiness opening. I am an official "ambassador" representing neutron scattering. Should be fun. Or not, whatev. We aren't allowed to eat anything in the official welcoming tent, so poo-bah to them i say.

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

House Pictures

The house was wallpapered everywhere...



And we hired a few climbing friends to help us...








Lots of painting - I HATE painting ceilings!







Which were of course very, very, ornate. And delicate.




I was up in the ceiling fibre-glassing a panel..



When I fell through...



We needed to remove a suppoting wall too.





The carpet, line, and underlay all came off, nails were punched in.


And of course there were many cups of tea to be had..



It was all very tiring..



I was forced to escape to a cafe for a while

Friday, April 06, 2007

Renovation

So hello everyone. I am alive. i have been
Commissioning instruments
Renovating the house
Climbing.

Less importantly, but of note to all my blogger fans (!!) I am having broadband installed in a few weeks at home, thus ensuing much bloggy goodness including house pictures.

Houe-warping party on the 27th of April, after 6pm. Its a BBQ.