some good things make a post

1. I am continuing to really enjoy all of the changes testosterone is making to my body. ( Read more... )
   
   
2. Bog mummy continues the best hairstyle I have yet tried for Getting Labwork Done with minimal sensory argh, and I can just about get it brushed & back up again in the time it takes to get from Oakwood to Finsbury Park (where I change from the Piccadilly to the Victoria, because it's very slightly faster and, more importantly, it means I only have to deal with one lift at Green Park.)
   
3. I spent a bunch of today thoroughly settling in with Half of a Yellow Sun (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie), during the sitting-and-waiting parts of lab, and I continue astonished by how immediate and vivid and real all of her writing feels.
   
4. Paper continues trundling along; need to make a few more tweaks following feedback from primary supervisor, and then we'll be circulating around (potential) co-authors early next week to solicit feedback/comment/etc. (If they have substantive contributions they're welcome on board; if they mostly just want a bit of a discussion in passing they will get gratefully acknowledged.) I'm feeling pretty good about the shape of the science there.
   
5. I have been really enjoying your collective enthusiasm for the What Do I Even Do All Day post. <3
   
6. We've had a run of excellent sunsets: good illuminated clouds yesterday, and then today the sky was completely clear and the colour gradient to the west was stunning.
   
7. I've taken to carrying a small pot of rosebuds with me, in addition to the travel mug, so that I can have a Fancy Warm Drink when out & about should the mood take me, which is how I came to spend some of my afternoon drinking rose tea and wrangling references while on campus. It is exceedingly pleasant.
   
8. A changed the bedlinen, night before last, and I have been very much enjoying - and am now very much anticipating - curling up and savouring it, with bonus points for I Didn't Have To Make It Happen.
   
9. Past!Alex made me lots of treats: dinner was a slice of toast with peanut butter, from this morning's bread, plus the end of the butternut squash risotto I made earlier in the week, plus a scoop of the apricot-and-soured-cream ice cream. Thank you, past me. <3
   
10. Dinner with wonderful ex-housemate C last night, post-lab, at Sagar, where I did not get the paper dosa but did nevertheless eat dosa; heading to Kew with her tomorrow to spend some more time looking at Chihuly.