Sophie's Socks and Stuff

... Is the departmental annual lecture and dinner. This year the talk sounded quite dull but the speaker, Prof Carol Robinson was really, really excellent. She explained her work going from the very, very early days of mass spectrometry and the general principals to how it is now possible to get information about the assembly of really, really huge protein complexes. Sounds dull but it really caught everyone's attention for the full hour. Unfortunately the president of the leeds biochem soc is a total patronising twat and gave the longest, awful, patronising introduction ever.

The annual dinner was really great. I think I looked quite gorgeous in my outfit and hair and make up. Unfortunately I got totally pissed at the dinner (my table won loads of wine in the raffle and I was determined to get my money's worth from my ticket) and the evening degenerated into painting people with bright red lipstick! It was a top night and the university dance band were pricey and the dancefloor was tiny but they sounded great, especially the girl singer and they did a wicked cover of King of the swingers song from the jungle book.