Autumn ...
Oct. 22nd, 2006 12:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
themis1... is grey and wet, although no doubt the water companies will tell us it's the wrong sort of rain and it's falling in the wrong places (sigh). I'd kind of like to hire a high-powered water thingey and remove the multitude of spiders who inhabit the outside of this house - particularly the gutters round the back of the garage - but the hose pipe ban is still in existence. I still haven't got the water butt connected to the drainpipe, either, although I do run out and empty anything that holds water into it when it rains so it does have some water in it, at least. I'm sure Kit will get around to it - we have kept him kind of busy just lately sorting out the broadband router.
On the plus side, the garden is still full of flowers. I'm quite proud of this, since usually I'm good at the green stuff and not so good at the colour - but the cosmos is still going great guns, all the chrysanthemums are out, the calendulae are still going strong, and I have some antirhinnums and a couple of self-seeded nasturtiums still going. Not to mention flowering fuschias in the tubs!! Pity the hollyhock is in such an odd place, though ...
In other news, I have to fill out the research proposal for my PhD this week, and I'm still not entirely sure what I can achieve in such a short time, particularly as my interest seems to have focused down onto how policemen make decisions about young people they interact with, and how much the actual interaction affects the outcome. Sounds more like psychology than youth justice; maybe I should start reading some relevant manuals on that :-S
The good news is, when I did a 'proper' academic journal search on Athens for relevant articles, not a lot came up. This is good news because (a) the literature review will be easier to do than I was expecting and (b) nobody else has written much in this area, which means I am actually pushing the boundaries of knowledge, which is what a PhD is supposed to do. So they tell me. Haven't actually had final confirmation the essay passed muster yet, but am assuming no news is good news.
One of the things I picked up in Reading the other day was new filofax pages for 2007; this led to a deal of muttering as I put into it the dates I have already for meetings next year, including one in December 2007 :-S Time goes by fast enough without that ...! It also led to me discovering our week's summer school next year was only four days long, so I e-mailed my professor. "John, should that be 9th to 13th, not 10th?" "Ah, just trying to keep you on your toes," came the reply. Mutters about absent- minded professors and moves rapidly on.
I watched 'Batman Begins' the other day, keeping the Tig company again, and was pleasantly surprised. It has a reasonable script, and whilst slightly re-imaging the set-up and background, it managed not to FEEL like it was moving away from canon. Bale did a better job than I expected although he is a little wooden - Sabine and I particularly liked the SINGLE scene in which they established the Bruce-Wayne-playboy-millionnaire cover. Beautifully written.
Laughed to the point of tears over Dave Langford's column in this month's SFX.
Torchwood tonight ...
On the plus side, the garden is still full of flowers. I'm quite proud of this, since usually I'm good at the green stuff and not so good at the colour - but the cosmos is still going great guns, all the chrysanthemums are out, the calendulae are still going strong, and I have some antirhinnums and a couple of self-seeded nasturtiums still going. Not to mention flowering fuschias in the tubs!! Pity the hollyhock is in such an odd place, though ...
In other news, I have to fill out the research proposal for my PhD this week, and I'm still not entirely sure what I can achieve in such a short time, particularly as my interest seems to have focused down onto how policemen make decisions about young people they interact with, and how much the actual interaction affects the outcome. Sounds more like psychology than youth justice; maybe I should start reading some relevant manuals on that :-S
The good news is, when I did a 'proper' academic journal search on Athens for relevant articles, not a lot came up. This is good news because (a) the literature review will be easier to do than I was expecting and (b) nobody else has written much in this area, which means I am actually pushing the boundaries of knowledge, which is what a PhD is supposed to do. So they tell me. Haven't actually had final confirmation the essay passed muster yet, but am assuming no news is good news.
One of the things I picked up in Reading the other day was new filofax pages for 2007; this led to a deal of muttering as I put into it the dates I have already for meetings next year, including one in December 2007 :-S Time goes by fast enough without that ...! It also led to me discovering our week's summer school next year was only four days long, so I e-mailed my professor. "John, should that be 9th to 13th, not 10th?" "Ah, just trying to keep you on your toes," came the reply. Mutters about absent- minded professors and moves rapidly on.
I watched 'Batman Begins' the other day, keeping the Tig company again, and was pleasantly surprised. It has a reasonable script, and whilst slightly re-imaging the set-up and background, it managed not to FEEL like it was moving away from canon. Bale did a better job than I expected although he is a little wooden - Sabine and I particularly liked the SINGLE scene in which they established the Bruce-Wayne-playboy-millionnaire cover. Beautifully written.
Laughed to the point of tears over Dave Langford's column in this month's SFX.
Torchwood tonight ...
