RL Bollocks

I'm still alive! Hurrah! I've been trying to get my CV etc. ready to send out this week to places for my PhD applications and, fingers crossed, some stuff will be going in the post tomorrow. Aaargh. Scary. I've also been watching the final episode of Battlestar Galactica, first episode of Smallville S4, Stargate SG1 and Atlantis so I can't pretend I've been that productive.

Where I work is desperate for me to stay (but they do support me applying for PhDs, I've never hidden the fact that I don't really want to stay there as I only started as a temp). So if I don't get accepted for a PhD anywhere in September then I'm pretty much guaranteed a permanent job there and from the sounds of it I'd be on considerably more money than I am now and what I'd get for doing a PhD and even a postdoc. Hmmm... am I stupid for wanting to go back to university? I don't know if I could stand being where I am for too long. I like the people but regulatory affairs is hardly very interesting.

I heard from one of my university supervisors today that the work I did for my final year project back in 2002 is finally going to be published next month in Animal Behaviour. Very exciting! I'm the second name too. And it's just in time to put on my CV.

God, this post makes no sense. I do apologise.

I'm nice and warm in my room now because I've got a fan heater. Yay. I wanted my mood for this post to be 'warm', but alas, it doesn't exist, so I've gone for 'hot'. I expect that the picture has nothing to do with warmth however... ETA: Yes, I was right. It's Thewlis hand porn. Not that I'm complaining of course.

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My cat Bean is currently is on my knee, and for some reason she smells like horse. o_0 She's never been near a horse in her life. Perhaps she's been rolling on the dog (who does smell of horse because she regularly paddles around in dirty stables) or on my boots...