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Date: 01 January 1970 00:59:59
there are four people in the department - me, one of the secretaries, one of the technicians, and one of the PhD students. I have a slight cold. I am trying to write a grant application and the most important thing is, of course, not the content but the formatting.
Current reading:
The Egg and I - Betty Macdonald. A sort of forerunner to The Good Life, the author foolishly marries a man (bad start there) who wants to be a chicken farmer on a remote and rainswept mountain. It's amusing and interesting - she grew up in a mining boom town in Montana - an unsanitised version of being a child in the Wild West.