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Roll on Christmas. Sitting in a lab is no place to be when there's wrapping to be done at home. And everyone else has left for their holidays, so its DULL. Dull dull dull.
On the plus side, everything seems to be working. So far. Electrochemistry may not be exciting, but at least when it works you can get lots of data very quickly, so hopefully today and tomorrow will get me the results I need to get this paper finished - or at least to a stage where I can push on with the writing. More exciting, Corel PhotoPaint is brilliant! OK, I'm sure it's not as good as Photoshop, which I don't have, but for something free on the university site license, I'm not complaining. It's managed to remove alarmingly red eyes from some photos of L and me, and also erase a large pillar that made it look a little as though I had been impaled. So all things considered, not too bad. I really need to work out how to use more than 2 of its functions, though.
On the minus side, I hear that in a drive to promote Community Spirit and release the oppression of the masses, an 'X-factor style vote' could be used to rename roads, buildings and parks in cities across the country. I think the idea is that instead of having Merton College, University of Oxford, instead I could have spent a year looking out over the John Sergeant Quad. OK, not the end of the world, I accept, providing I don't have to watch him slowly gyrating around it to the Copacabana, but you take my point. Especially as I suspect that the majority of famous people chosen would be, shall we say, less for all time than for now. I'm thinking 'I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here' rather than 'Who's Who'. Ideas so far include 'David Beckham Avenue' in Manchester, and a whole series of roads named after Olympic participants in London.
As annoyances go, it's a fairly minor one. And I actually quite like David Beckham. But hey, it's dull here at work so I feel entitled to moan. It's not like there's anyone's here to stop me...
On the plus side, everything seems to be working. So far. Electrochemistry may not be exciting, but at least when it works you can get lots of data very quickly, so hopefully today and tomorrow will get me the results I need to get this paper finished - or at least to a stage where I can push on with the writing. More exciting, Corel PhotoPaint is brilliant! OK, I'm sure it's not as good as Photoshop, which I don't have, but for something free on the university site license, I'm not complaining. It's managed to remove alarmingly red eyes from some photos of L and me, and also erase a large pillar that made it look a little as though I had been impaled. So all things considered, not too bad. I really need to work out how to use more than 2 of its functions, though.
On the minus side, I hear that in a drive to promote Community Spirit and release the oppression of the masses, an 'X-factor style vote' could be used to rename roads, buildings and parks in cities across the country. I think the idea is that instead of having Merton College, University of Oxford, instead I could have spent a year looking out over the John Sergeant Quad. OK, not the end of the world, I accept, providing I don't have to watch him slowly gyrating around it to the Copacabana, but you take my point. Especially as I suspect that the majority of famous people chosen would be, shall we say, less for all time than for now. I'm thinking 'I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here' rather than 'Who's Who'. Ideas so far include 'David Beckham Avenue' in Manchester, and a whole series of roads named after Olympic participants in London.
As annoyances go, it's a fairly minor one. And I actually quite like David Beckham. But hey, it's dull here at work so I feel entitled to moan. It's not like there's anyone's here to stop me...
Where I am: work
Feeling: 
grumpy
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