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Date: 29 March 2006 21:15:38
I have spent the last three days either a) listening to training on how to use our new EEG machine (fancy-schmancy thing for measuring electricity in the brain) or b) copying and pasting multiple messy Excel files into which my former assistant put lots of data.
My brain is full.
At least it's nearly spring, and I had lunch with one friend today and am having coffee with another one tomorrow. It is easy to feel a little isolated stuck on the campus on the hill all day, especially when all the students have gone home. The friend I had lunch with is getting married in May but her parents are not able to make it over here from Japan (they'll have a blessing and another party over there immediately afterwards), and our curate has told her that will be difficult if her father is not there to give her away. She was very relieved when I told her it's not essential to have the giving away part. The minister who did our wedding said "you don't want that part, do you?"
Currently reading: several rubbishy chick-lit books. Like I say, my brain is full. The best recently was "Dress You Up in My Love", by Diane Stingley. A single woman hires an actor to play her boyfriend at family events and so she can be brave when her ex gets engaged. Funny, and an interesting premise.