Walminski... you might not have been as bad in your presentation as you think, you know. It's easy to think you were really dreadful when you're knackered, so maybe you're being a bit hard on yourself. Did you manage to recruit anyone in the end?

Yeah, you don't want to mess with the Angels of Death... .;-)

lol Tricky - I'm glad you clarified that one!

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Rubyw is amused that Scienceishard is jealous of her penknife-torch! She used to be an IT technician many years ago in another working life, so the torch was handy for crawling into dark places looking for network sockets under desks.

Hello there!

I'm seething at the moment as the designer for that event has made executive decisions about my pics and text that totally change the meaning!!!!:-s:-s:-s What's the point of spending ages poring over a Phd writing stuff, carefully labelling pics and putting them into a specific order that MAKES SENSE if someone just changes it? You spend ages making sure everything you do or write is justified academically throughout the whole of your PhD, then it gets ignored! Sorry to rant, but I'm really pissed off! I don't have high blood pressure or anything but wouldn't be surprised if all my bodily fluids weren't boiling over by now, with steam about to come out of my ears. Well, I suppose I should be glad I got the chance to amend it (hopefully) before it got too late.

Rant over. Sorry about that, a lot of things have been really annoying today but not as bad as for the poor person in the RTA this morning... :-( Puts things into perspective.

Lara, how's it going? Daren't ask, but I'm sure you got more done with the forum offline last night - I did!!

Armendaf...? Pari...?

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Rubyw is glad to hear Scienceishard's reassurance. She is very relieved she used proper hairdressing scissors and not her blunt swiss army knife ones with the mini red torch.

Rubyw wishes she hadn't cut her fringe quite so enthusiastically late last night, as it looks a bit odd today. She hopes other forum users will learn from her unfortunate experience and hopefully avoid bad haircut days in the future. She is probably spamming this thread singlehandedly at the moment (sorry!), but is doing it in utter delight at the forum working again. (up)

Rubyw is amazed at how much work she has got done while the forum has been down.

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I'll come if it's in London too.

Hello there,

Hope things are going ok for you two.

I'm starving and am going to have an 'official' break now - as opposed to all these unofficial ones I also seem to have hahahaha!!! Ooh does that sound like hysterical laughter? Can't think why! Actually the writing's going ok now *phew* but I STILL haven't finished this chapter. I'll be back later to finish it, I couldn't bear it to drag on any longer than today. I'm being a bit more obsessive about it as I've been trying to use some choice quotes from my supervisor's book on this subject. I'd hate to misquote her - it obviously wouldn't mean sudden death, but inadvisable!

See you later.

Oh yes, virtually essential to know! A bit of an omission on the forum people's part.

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I probably sound like a real saddo, but my ultimate fantasy right now is to have a whole month where I can do anything or absolutely nothing, as long as it's not connected to my PhD...