Olivia, where are you, I need cheering up and motivating.

I know I am thinking of sending out a search party!!! Olivia where are you????? Come baaaaaaccccccckkkkkkkkkkk!!!!!!!!!!

Hi Hypothesis! Sorry that you are bored!!! I am just back from a 2 day post grad conference, which was delightful!!! I got to meet other PhD students in my particular area face to face, and the conference encouraged lots of networking. I met fasicinating people from a wealth of other countries and ----I EVEN SAW ANOTHER AMERICAN!!!! I have gone a full two weeks without speaking to or seeing another American! So I have just popped in to the university on my way back on foot from the train station ( loo stop and look at my email---not out of a misplaced sense of the need to start working again immediately--tomorrow is soon enough!)