Time for change

I have been very bad at keeping diaries and blogs, and reading other peoples too I might add, much to my shame. However I'm going to try again, and even though I will get stick from some people who would ratehr I use LiveJournal, I'm going to try and keep this Blog. Why? you may ask, because I don;t like the adverts that appear in my Lj! and I didn;t even realise until very recently when I was thinking of making an entry, it put me right off! and to be honest, I didn't feel inclined to pay even the paltry sum of $24 a year.

So I'm going to try and keep this blog, at least fairly regularly if not frequently.

This week I collect the bound edition of my thesis, and hand a copy to the main office for the library, as well as a copy of the title page and the abstract to go to the British Library for all eternity... wow! Both John and Simon want a copy, and I have had two bound for me. All copies except on are black with gold text. I know this may seem very conservative for me! but I like the classic sleekness of that look, it gives the work gravitas. The final copy however, is bound in peacock blue ! Hey! this is me, and one really should have a back up copy of ones serious work.

It's the middle of March and in three weeks time I will be visiting Jana in NY State. it's sort of scary and exciting all at once since I shall be going alone and Chris and the rest of the family are skiing at Whistler in Canada. As always at times like this I wish I'd been able to loose some weight, I feel pathetic about this bane of my life! But it is as it is, I shall be working on it for D*C in September, I just hope that now I don;t have to sit in front of a computer writing a thesis I will manage to get somewhere!