Boo!

 

Well, I've got 3 more days at work in the Physics lab, and then I'm back in Londinium at last!!  I have to say, as much as Oxford is a nice place, and very pretty in the summer, it's rather tiresome after 2 months.  Thankfully, I've been kept entertained over the last few months by several friends dropping by.  Thus, I've had the opportunity to don my tour-guide hat, and show people around.  It's a strange place in the summer, overrun by skinny, (slaggy), not-so-bright, middle-class (my-daddy-bought-me-a-pony), American girls.  Okay, there are some boys too, but mainly girls.  I'm dying to get out of this bubble now, and get to my new super-dooper flat in Tower Hill, and be surrounded by all manner of people, and really big boats. 

 

I wonder whether I'll be able to cope if I do my DPhil here...after all, only being here 8 weeks has made me turn into a hard-core drinker!  (Yes, far TOO much wine has been consumed lately.)  But then again, I have been sorta isolated here.   A few weeks ago, I was praising the Attosecond project.  Now, I'm starting to think that UltraFast Optics and the applications of it are the way forward.  I'm even considering BioPhysics...specifically, the Bionanotechnology stuff that goes on.  They look at how living machines work, by using the techniques of optical tweezers, laser interferometry and fluorescence microscopy.  So, it's still laser science, but being applied to something else.  Actually, I met a really amazing guy today, who may have actually convinced me that Condensed Matter Chemistry is cool.  How about that? 

 

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Why is it that more people communicate using facebook or MSN or some other internet-based device these days than telephoning?  The cost of calling is so low these days, especially with Skype etc.  Seems to me that people because they can, not because they want to. 

 

That's my two cents for the day...now I should get back to making some dollars.