Tags: thesis, walk, chocolate, shipmeet, friends, food
Date: 20 August 2009 19:40:22
I haven't blogged for a week, which has been due to a combination of being too busy doing interesting things or having large chunks of boringness when there's been nothing to write about. Anyway, things worth telling you about:
* weekend in York. Our best man had his annual birthday walk (his walk 3 years ago was our second date). This year (unlike last year) we didn't get drenched, so that was good. We started at a village, the name of which I have forgotten (West something-beginning-with-T), and walked about 7 miles mostly along a river through fields and woods, to another village called Masham which has famous breweries (Theakstons, Black Sheep). We had a meal at a hotel next to the Black Sheep brewery when we finished the walk, and I made the mistake of ordering Guinness (my usual beer of choice) instead of something made by Theakstons. I sent the first one back as I thought they'd given me a pint of Coke by mistake as it had no head, and the second one only had about a millimetre of head which had disappeared after a couple of sips, and it didn't taste as good as usual. I think they were having an off day. Anyway, the walk was good, we got to see lots of friends, and our best man and his wife recently bought a new house with a lovely garden so we got to nose at that too. A lovely weekend.
* interviews. HD has had a couple down south this week and last, we're still waiting to hear. He thinks one went well, the other not so. Everything is being thoroughly crossed, as it's getting a bit crucial that we get something soon as I'm about to get my final pay packet from the university. I have an interview lined up at the end of the month for a health visiting job here which I'm not desperate to do but if there's nothing else going I'm glad I can fall back on it. Still waiting to hear from the part-time jobs I applied for, which I'd prefer if HD gets a job down south as it means I could still be around here a couple of days a week which will be helpful for seeing supervisors/going to the library/sorting out the flat/etc.
* shipmeet. Actually it was also a mini-wibmeet, as 4 of the 10 people who met last night at Ad Lib were also wibloggers. Smudgie and Smudgelet are up for a visit this week, so we had a meal in the evening - unfortunately due to thesis commitments I couldn't share in their afternoon adventure. It was good to see Smudgie, and also fellow bloggers Surfing and Tractor Girl, and to see some familiar and unfamiliar shippies as well. I was particularly impressed with my pudding - I had a chocolate brownie (which was really really something else, it was gorgeous), but I figured that as it had a strawberry on my plate *and* I declined the accompanying ice-cream, that meant that it was virtually calorie-neutral.
* thesis. Argh. If I could just get my current chapter out of the way then I could get on with something fun (I always think that when I'm at this point in a chapter). Hopefully it will be finished by the end of the week, but only if I step up the drama queen histrionics act. One good thing is that due to the worrying about jobs and money, I really am not remotely fussed about the uncertainty about my thesis extension. I've got more important things to worry about.
That is all, I think.