Philosophy, cookery and geekery

Not in any way linked.

1. It’s pancake day – which meant Powertool Pancakes in the ADC Clubroom. Admittedly we didn’t actually use a powertool this time (it was really just a one-off thing) but most cordless drills are very effective, if somewhat messy, batter-mixing devices. My master creation was ham, cheese, lemon, sugar and toffee syrup. Think what you will, I liked it.
2. Just been to a nice talk in College on amnesia, presented by a Peterhouse research fellow. What with a lot of my final-year degree material being memory-related, it felt very much like a nice gentle review, which is definitely a good thing – made me feel more confident that I am taking lecture material in!

Life has, predictably, been very busy recently. Without trying to be remotely comprehensive, I’m making good headway on my research project (about half the data in, and it’s looking good!), and am also tackling a dissertation on Internal Speech (a.k.a the inner monologue, voice in your head, etc – in non-pathological people!). I’ve left that bit a bit more to the last minute, as I have to confirm my title in 8 days, and will only really be ready to a couple of days in advance – but I’ve still got plenty of time to actually read up on and write the thing. And I’m really interested by the papers I’ve found so far, which is promising.

I’ve also been job hunting. I’m off tomorrow evening to London, for dinner in a nice hotel courtesy of Marks and Sparks, who are then giving me some kind of 9-5 grilling the following day, for a place in their Graduate IT Training scheme. Among my “other plans” is an application to last.fm, which I submitted a while back and haven’t heard a peep about… so that might be down the chute. Ah well. The other applications are not far enough along that I want to mention them on a blog, but I’ve got high hopes for a couple.

Hmm, what else? Various social hi-jinx, e.g. Mr Linford’s birthday celebrations last week (c.f. facebook) and Laura’s birthday this weekend. Oh yes, and how can I forget Matt and Lotte heading back off to Oz? Lindy Hop, though in very capable hands, just isn’t going to be the same without them…:’( Having said which, my workload is beginning to seriously prevent me from much social life, so I probably won’t be making that much more Lindy this term. There’s been more, but I think I’ll have to leave it there. Need my beauty sleep pre-interviews!