Garnet's Life Adventures

Volcanos are so cool!

Here is my evidence, not to say that I would want to see that in my backyard, but how cool is that photo?!?!?!

So I need to apologize as I have bugger all to report since yesterday. I set up my stimulation assay which is just "cooking" at 37C till tomorrow. So far this morning I've checked my emails, read the comments on my blog (I think the highlight of my day - I do love reading them!!) and I signed up to go to the 2007 UK Melioidosis Networking Meeting at the Health Protection Agency in Colindale.

There is a big important meeting about what's going on in the building as far as animal rooms closing down. I'm not sure if I've mentioned this before, but our animal facility is being totally redone, so as of next Thursday it will be closed for about a year. In the mean time we will have to do all of our work at Imperial College. Now this might not seem like a big deal, until you realize that Imperial is about 20 minutes away & in order to transport stuff in between we will potentially have to have police escorts (well those of us doing Cat 3 stuff) - how important am I going to look?!?!?! It's all to do with fears in bioterrorism etc. Luckily I don't have to attend that meeting, instead I think I will try to go over to the surgery (that's what they like to call the doctor's office) & register with the National Health Services.

In personal news, my flatmate Estee & I have been hanging out quite a bit (with Julia as well but she doesn't get home till 10pm). I found out last night that she's in the middle of getting a divorce, poor girl!! It somewhat explains why she has nothing with her, apparently she left so fast that she only took 1 suitcase worth of stuff with her & now is regretting not having more of her stuff. She went to the synagogue last night for a special Passover event & ran into Warren's cousin, who asked where he was b/c apparently he'd not been told they split up, which made Estee feel like crap & half way through she nearly broke down so she left early & called to say she was having a break down & really wanted pasta. Isn't it that you always want what you can't have especially when you are depressed. Luckily she had some salad & fish left over so she didn't starve to death, as everything that I had, had some sort of bread related material in it (pasta, cereal, garlic bread, etc) - what a rubbish flatmate I am!! She calmed down after a bit of talking & I promised to go with her to Tesco's tonight to buy some stuff she/we can eat.

Thursday night we're going to try to make dinner & have Jim come around, but of course with all of our schedule's that's not set in stone at all. Jim's been having a really crap week - he arrived at 3 rape cases in the 35 hours he worked over the weekend . . . I cannot imagine!

Did you know that, "Every weekday over 6,800 scheduled buses carry around six million passengers on over 700 different routes" according to the Travel for London website? And to think I'm just one tiny part of that system :)

posted by Sara @ 10:31 am