Sorry about not blogging for a while. I know I get annoyed when people don't update for ages, although I'm sure I don't blog about interesting enough things to have hordes of people clamouring to know what I've been up to. If you know what I mean.

The reason I haven't been blogging is that I've been working a lot. And I still have an enormous amount to do. Apart from the ceramics project I have to write up for Friday (looking at thin sections of Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon pottery that contain granodiorite) I have a practical petrology test tomorrow. I'm quite worried about it. I'm not really sure how to do the hand specimen stuff at all, and the other half of the test (with microscopes) isn't going to be much better. And the project... well, I'm not sure if we're coming up with the right results. Different archaeologists keep wandering by while we're working and saying things like, "Oh, we reckoned there was a lot of flint in those, I hope your results agree with us," and of course they're all saying different things. Eleni and I are new to this stuff - they're supposed to be the experts! Although most of them don't know how to do thin section analyses... so if we're doing it right we know something they don't. It's just the "if we're doing it right" part that's the problem...

I did have a bit of time off yesterday, though, because I went to a Hen Party. Well, it was kind of a Hen Day and evening. We went to Bradgate Park for a walk and tea and cakes at the nice tea shop, then we got changed and headed off to see Buddy - the musical about Buddy Holly's life. It was very good. I hadn't really expected to enjoy it, but I did. And after that we went to a restaurant for dinner. It was fun! Although I had a headache, which was annoying... Harriet (the bride to be) looked great as a pink fairy (she was forced to wear a tiara, pink hair stuff, pink t-shirt, glittery wings and carry a sceptre). :)

Can't really think about this enough to make coherent sentences. Hmm....

The toilet is fixed. Ali looked in some book and found out what part was broken - it was the thing I thought was broken, although my lack of detail meant my guess was completely useless. But she made Phil from down the road come and fix it, so... hooray!

And if I sounded like I was being really horrible about Ali, I didn't mean it. At the moment I feel very stressed, so I'm not really thinking about such things. Anyway, I'm only mean about people I like a lot, and it's not fair to be mean about people aren't ever likely to read this, so...

Better go and catch up on some other internetty things.

Bye!

I have been mostly.... WATCHING (TV): neighbours (bbc 1) / READING: sting (wensley clarkson) / LISTENING: feel good time (pink); tilt (lightning seeds); forever more (moloko)

posted by Fiery Fred @ 8:51 PM