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Remember that thing I said about coping pretty well with no PC gaming? That it’s not an addiction? Well forget it. I’m starting to get really fucking jittery now. Next week it will be a month since my gaming rig blew, and my new components (OK, some of them are a *little* esoteric) still haven’t…

The ARC (the funding body paying for a current research project of mine) just phoned to ask if I’d be in their monthly magazine. Sheesh. When it rains it pours. All this publicity might go to my head! Or not.

People scoff when I claim that you can measure the law of Sod. Yesterday morning I was running (well, cycling) late to catch my train (Jack was up early). With the foreknowledge of Sod’s Law I predicted that the busy dual-carriageway that I have to cross every morning would be particularly busy because of my…

I’ve been a lazy blogger of late. Frankly, I’ve been far too busy to write anything of interest (as if I ever do), & at least you got some moblogged photos. The medicine course is in its second week now, & while my prediction that bullshit levels would drop off was correct, so also was…

If anyone’s interested, I’m doing this on the 3rd October in Northamptonshire. I know some of you wanted to join me and make a weekend of it. We’ll probably be staying in the Hilton. Holy crap. They’ve changed the website since my printout: machine guns and axe-throwing have been added. I’m slightly crapping myself.

We finally began teaching today. I’d like to think that it went OK, and that we started the course off in a reasonable manner. The anatomy itself was introductory, but hopefully interesting enough. The students themselves, on the whole, appeared keen and often worried that they didn’t already know more. Hey – if you already…

At last we begin teaching medicine tomorrow. The students have arrived (mostly), they know who we are and where to go to get taught. They have hopefully been enthused and bouyed by the inspirational speeches from the directors of the project and they’re ready for the deluge of information they’re about to receive. We’ll try…

I chatted to a guy on the train home today. It turned out that he had an operable brain tumour, (and probably lung tumours too). The conversation summised the problems of time and money. I’ve had a belief for a long time that throughout your life you either have time, or you have money, but…

The BBC have been with us in the Swansea Clinical School all morning. Some stuff went out with the breakfast news, another item will go out at 1.30, and then some more on this evening’s BBC Wales news and also on S4C’s Newyddion. They are, of course, reporting on tomorrow’s opening of the latest medical…

Forgive me Father, for I have not kicked alien arse in 5 days since my gaming rig blew. Actually, going cold turkey like this might have been good for me. I’ve caught up on The West Wing series 2 on DVD, which Kim has been nagging me to get on with for ages. I had…