A swearing bi theist

from chaps1870 ... because I can resist anything except temptation
First five to respond get something craftsy from me!

This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:

- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
- What I create will be just for you.
- It'll be done this year.
- You have no clue what it's going to be. It may be a story. It may be poetry. I may draw or paint something.
I may bake you something and mail it to you. Who knows? Not you, that's for sure!
- I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.

The catch? Oh, the catch is that you have to put this in your journal as well.

P.S. (added by merwy) - it won't be a story, and it won't be poetry - I wouldnt do that to any of you, so it may end up something non-electronic ;-) (I'm a mean knitter)  or, hey, music I can do... 

 New president! missed first part of the inauguration, but I'm sure I can find it on the net tomorrow - after I go have an exam of sorts (defending a paper I've written = dramatic phrasing for "short talk and Q&A session"). 
Hope your Mr. Obama brings good times to those in the US of A (and the rest of us, too ;-))

 My sister just came to visit and insisted on checking me over when I said my scalp was itchy. apparently, I have lice. How in the world do you get headlice at 24, with no significant contact with children? I work at a university, I don't share my hats with anyone? No clue. Ah well, and of course it itches heaps more now that I know... creepy-crawlies :-( Got to go out buying combs and stuff tomorrow, and wash all my clothes and duvet covers and stick my mattress on the balcony. Guess the big question is whether I ought to tell people at work. i don't really tend to come into close bodily contact with them, but then, I must have got this somewhere. Am not pleased.

 (also, an awesome dictionary). And I love the word octogenarian - actually having a valid reason to use it is most excellent.
The octogenarian stalkers are some of my gran's friends from her bridge-club who came up to her to ask whether I lived in the left-hand ground floor flat of my house, because they were discussing whether the girl who lived there was young enough to be my gran's granddaughter (she wasn't, I live on the first floor on the right).
The intriguing thing is that even the ground floor flat is well above the average tall man's head... I have spider-gran stalkers ;-)

But I do try. Like now...
so, since last I definitely and without re-decision broke up with the boyfriend for previously stated reasons, moved out from my gran's house  -but only five minutes away, so I still see her a lot which is wonderful. My granny is an awesome woman ;-)
I am now an all official ph.d. student and it is still good except that I am still.... quite lazy. seem to have misplaced my work ethic somewhere. or rather it only works so far as to give me a guilty conscience when I am say, posting to livejournal instead of working, it doesn't actually stop me doing stuff like this ;-)
And I have a lovely flat and for the first time in my life my very own kitchen that I do not share with anyone. Which is very nice. in general, I wouldn't mind a little more company, but not having other people's dirty pots and pans all over the place means a lot. Don't min so much when it's my own dirty pots and pans ;-) So I do quite a bit of cooking and baking, which is lovely. I have a super oven with lots of weird buttons and functions I still don't know what to do with, but I am taking the male approach and going on instinct rather than trying to track down the manual, and at least I haven't burnt the place down yet...
Oh, and in a fabulous case of overkill - or perhaps over-joy - I have two balconies. Two bedroom flat with two balconies... just silly, but very, very nice. Enjoying the sunshine and growing strawberries in me flowerpots ;-)
Hope all are well.
Hugs

Not dead or missing, just ... I don't know... absent... Have no decent excuse except a general laziness consequence of taking 6 months off to do very little. My first non-scheduled gap in education since I was six, and from march I start again... Or I started in January, depending on how you look at it. I am currently officially gainfully employed as a research assistant, but actually working on my very own PhD project, which I am applying for this monday. However, my supervisor assures me that I will indeed get the stipend and be accepted, so presumably I am a sort of proto-PhD-student, and thus studying again already... Regardless, I am learning stuff and getting paid to do it, which is ideal IMHO.

Have read the Harry Potter and was very pleased excepting a slight displeasure at the death of one of my favourite characters...ah well, all live on in fanfic somewhere ;-)

Have been to Malaysia on a fabulous 3-week holiday visiting a friend from uni.

Have actually broken up with my boyfriend only to decide within the day not to do so anyway (mutual decision both, believe it or not... No major disagreements or lack of affection, we just... live in different countries which is not easy at the best of times, much less when I at least am full time employed with v. limited holiday time).

Moved in with my granny (and currently enjoying a social life with an average age mostly above the age of 70... and I do actually enjoy it!)

Really too hungry to be sitting at uni updating this when I could go home and have supper.

Good weekend all, merwy

I am hiding from the internet because I have not read the new harry potter book. And everywhere has spoilers or things that look like them. My virgin eyes!
so I shall be gone until I finish it. You all play nice while I am away.
Marie

So, I am looking for a book or several to read this summer... anyone got any ideas?
I like fantasy and sci-fi and things that are neither, and crime fiction and romance, historical novels and well, pretty much anything.
But I want something at least a little intelligent.

for far too long periods of time. Sorry... I've just, dunno, been feeling kinda uncommunicative (if that is even a word). Has not just struck my journal, but also letters and emails to friends, even the phone has been more dreaded than ever before. However, I will attempt betterment. I shan't make any promises because I probably won't keep them, but maybe once in a while I will post.
I am back in my native Denmark now, the Great Scottish Adventure is at an end (at least so far). I am now holder of the degree Master of Chemistry With Industrial Experience, which I managed to get with First Class Honours (that's an A ;-)). So I rule ;-)
Although I also got my first ever B in an exam (sigh). I have gotten a C before, due to a massive screw-up in my first ever university exam, during which I managed to amply demonstrate my genius by writing on the wrong piece of paper and then having to spend half the exam transferring stuff to the right piece of paper.
This time it was my last ever exam, which was the last in a row of three exams in as many days, and my brain was just mush. So there.
It was Chemical Biology, and I am pretty sure I did very well on the part of that exam that had to do with Gene Manipulation (us evil overladies-to-be must know that sort of stuff), but the last three quarters were... mush ;-)
But an overall A was achieved, and I am now back to more familiar pastures - living at home for 5 months or so before I embark on a phd in... oooohhh, genes! Or at least nucleic acids which makes up genes / are made up of genes depending on how you look at it.
It shall be good and soon I will rule the world have the tools to rule the world get me a cushy job, maybe.
Right now I am incapacitated by a rude & obnoxious cough that has so far kept me from going back to the middle ages as I would like to do here  . Hmm, well, I am hoping to go on saturday and hopefully not slay everyone with my vile plague. I am on penicillin and all, but judging by how I am not getting better, i reckon it is probably a virus, not bacteria, and thus not in the least affected by penicillin.
Ah well, I shall have to take all my pills anyway, cause the other way lies resistant bacteria and possibly madness.
I hope you all are well in the great www.

Oh, and other news: I have been put on Linux and am happily surviving the experience. Yay.
Next will be a pretty, precious Mac when I actually start to earn money. And then a Morgan sportscar when I earn lots of money. And possibly a driving license at some point, too :-D

I thought I'd better do the same. Just to show him how much of an inspiration he is... Though this will be shortish as I am seriously supposed to be doing homework. Have a report to write about my whole year of chemical research.... that is a lot of stuff. And it will be marked on Monday. And it is just so very not done yet. And needs to bee looked over by other people to weed out my mistakes. but then that requires it to be written first. And for first draft corrections to be incorporated (too me 2 hours today to incorporate 4 pages of corrections... That means 16 to go. On that section).
Arrrghhh... I am a little panicky about how late I am with this. So many, many days of working 8-6 and still it's only ever baby-steps forward.
In other news, though, less whiny: My Dutch friend Cornelis comes to visit me tomorrow, which will be utterly fabulous, don't think I've seen him in years and really look forward to it. My sister comes to visit on Thursday, and I haven't seen her for a month, so also very good.
And then I will be moving back to edinburgh soon, which is both good and bad. Because I love it here, and I love it there... so I'm not quite sure what to think about that.
But now, work must be done.
Hugses
marie