Istanbulic driving fish
argh!
There's only so much of ones persons ineptitude that I can handle before totally losing it, albeit somewhat restrainedly. Now I am silently seething and stressing over how the careless actions of one person can seriously affect the work of not one, but three (yes, three) totally uninvolved persons.
Enough.
So I had a summer in the lab, it whizzed by and I got stuff done that I am happy with, and am, surprisingly, not even mourning the lack of a summer holiday. The last holiday I went on was a week of sailing and windsurfing with my brother and his friend in Turkey, and bizarrely, I saw one of the instructors I met out there in the student bar last night. Such a small world.
Even though I don't feel lacking on the holiday front, possibly owing to the many weekends in London I've had over the past 2 months, I definitely feel it's high time I went on a short break again.
Cue weekend to Istanbul, oh yes. That's me doing my part to contribute to global warming while it's still affordable to do so. This saturday, for 3 days. Total bliss. Top of my list are the spice/Egyptian markets, and many many hours in the Turkish baths. I've already started having the "missing our flights" nightmares, so all is set.
I've also started taking driving lessons again, having been too naive 7 years ago to see that when my instructor said I wouldn't pass my test because my "left reverse around a corner is perfect only 9 out of 10 times", he just wanted more money. Well boo to him, I didn't book any more anyway. And boo too to me because I didn't take the test and it takes surprisingly longer than I thought it would to all come back to me. I was, however, amused when instead of changing from 1st to 2nd gear I pulled the handbrake up instead. It let me discover that the handbrake on a vauxhall corsa is, in fact, rubbish, and that performing a "hammy" is much harder than just pulling up the break. Yes, I was even turning the corner.
And the new flat is doing well. Yes it's damp, and the security is not the best, and it's in a slightly dodgy area of town, but it's not owned by UPP scum, and it has a sofa, neigh, 2 sofas, and my fish tank looks good in it. I'm stocking it up as we speak, and now houses my siamese fighter (feesh), 2 brown frogs (kaplan and kaplow - emphasised ka-PLAN and ka-PLOW), and a silver dollar (tempau) which I have since discovered (even after specifically asking the attendant at the shop) is incompatible with a siamese fighter on account of it growing to a whopping 15cm, and that it also shouldn't be housed singly but with 3 other dollars. The pet shop in the centre of Nottingham is clearly not a good place to go for advice. Or frogs that aren't suffering from fungal infections.
There's only so much of ones persons ineptitude that I can handle before totally losing it, albeit somewhat restrainedly. Now I am silently seething and stressing over how the careless actions of one person can seriously affect the work of not one, but three (yes, three) totally uninvolved persons.
Enough.
So I had a summer in the lab, it whizzed by and I got stuff done that I am happy with, and am, surprisingly, not even mourning the lack of a summer holiday. The last holiday I went on was a week of sailing and windsurfing with my brother and his friend in Turkey, and bizarrely, I saw one of the instructors I met out there in the student bar last night. Such a small world.
Even though I don't feel lacking on the holiday front, possibly owing to the many weekends in London I've had over the past 2 months, I definitely feel it's high time I went on a short break again.
Cue weekend to Istanbul, oh yes. That's me doing my part to contribute to global warming while it's still affordable to do so. This saturday, for 3 days. Total bliss. Top of my list are the spice/Egyptian markets, and many many hours in the Turkish baths. I've already started having the "missing our flights" nightmares, so all is set.
I've also started taking driving lessons again, having been too naive 7 years ago to see that when my instructor said I wouldn't pass my test because my "left reverse around a corner is perfect only 9 out of 10 times", he just wanted more money. Well boo to him, I didn't book any more anyway. And boo too to me because I didn't take the test and it takes surprisingly longer than I thought it would to all come back to me. I was, however, amused when instead of changing from 1st to 2nd gear I pulled the handbrake up instead. It let me discover that the handbrake on a vauxhall corsa is, in fact, rubbish, and that performing a "hammy" is much harder than just pulling up the break. Yes, I was even turning the corner.
And the new flat is doing well. Yes it's damp, and the security is not the best, and it's in a slightly dodgy area of town, but it's not owned by UPP scum, and it has a sofa, neigh, 2 sofas, and my fish tank looks good in it. I'm stocking it up as we speak, and now houses my siamese fighter (feesh), 2 brown frogs (kaplan and kaplow - emphasised ka-PLAN and ka-PLOW), and a silver dollar (tempau) which I have since discovered (even after specifically asking the attendant at the shop) is incompatible with a siamese fighter on account of it growing to a whopping 15cm, and that it also shouldn't be housed singly but with 3 other dollars. The pet shop in the centre of Nottingham is clearly not a good place to go for advice. Or frogs that aren't suffering from fungal infections.
posted by lydia at 11:14 AM
1 Comments:
jesus christ lydia! It took you THAT LONG to get your blog updated! Anyway, it is better late than never.... missing u...sigh...
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