Friday, November 02, 2007
Ooops
It's been longer than I thought since I updated this. Nothing much has been going on, lab stuff is pootling on. Have ended up having a good week in the lab and looking forward to continuing it through with some bigger experiments next week. The success this week was really reassuring after having a rotten time towards the end of the previous week (mostly self inflicted by repeat spack attacks in the lab!)
The gym thing is still going really well and I still haven't lost any weight but I'm pretty sure my trousers are all looser on me which is nice. I'm looking forward to loosing more inches and going out and buying a couple of nice outfits for all the Christmas parties I have. One of the benefits of being part of lots of different labs and departments is getting invited to lots of Christmas parties and social events.
Also been quite busy recently doing a lot of volunteering. The volunteering thing is weird as I enjoy doing it as I find it's a good way to hang out with totally different people to whom I usually hang out with and also it's important to me to feel like I'm giving back to society, especially as I have what I percieve to be quite a selfish job (my research is interesting and important but not easily classifiable into directly good for society type work like some research can be seen as). A lot of people seem to find it odd that I give up my time to do something where I don't get paid or appear to get any direct material benefit but I have always thought there is more to life than money and that sort of thing so I am still happy doing it even if other people don't ever get it.
The gym thing is still going really well and I still haven't lost any weight but I'm pretty sure my trousers are all looser on me which is nice. I'm looking forward to loosing more inches and going out and buying a couple of nice outfits for all the Christmas parties I have. One of the benefits of being part of lots of different labs and departments is getting invited to lots of Christmas parties and social events.
Also been quite busy recently doing a lot of volunteering. The volunteering thing is weird as I enjoy doing it as I find it's a good way to hang out with totally different people to whom I usually hang out with and also it's important to me to feel like I'm giving back to society, especially as I have what I percieve to be quite a selfish job (my research is interesting and important but not easily classifiable into directly good for society type work like some research can be seen as). A lot of people seem to find it odd that I give up my time to do something where I don't get paid or appear to get any direct material benefit but I have always thought there is more to life than money and that sort of thing so I am still happy doing it even if other people don't ever get it.
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