Since I havent written in here since forever.

Taking stanley up to nottingham n 2 weeks time to compete in nationals. Not sure quite how it will go. But seeing as I am being entered under a time I did last year during the summer which is far slower than i am now means i get entered into the easy class!

Been building parachutes for new and interesting ways to make my sessions harder, by adding resistance to the efforts improves the speed of my sprints...hopefully...

Ermm...hare and hounds yesterday, posted my fastest time ever. Think I may have even got a decent amount of points, and whilst I can keep the twins behind me up to the finish means i may be in line for the points trophy.

Course is aching my brain, i mean comeone, naming quarks up, down, chance, strange, top and bottom...apparantly top and bottom are also called truth and beauty...weird.

I read about the story of marie curie (and pierre) whom did research into a strange rock found in wales, used to extract pure forms of the mineral and carry it around with them and slept with it on there bedsides, noted strange sores when held next to the skin for too long. Turned out they were some of the most radioactive elements ever. And she subsequently died from leukemia...pierre got run over by horses.

My brain is currently leaking out of my ears.

My lack of studying over my holiday at the begining of the month required me to sit down for over 5 hours today to try and digest hydrocarbons in the forms of amino acids, fatty acids and what not, thier functional groups and why certain drugs bind to certain receptors and why.

Luckily enough Hill Billy was on the phone and happened to be standing next to a chemist.

Woo! Anyways my assignment is almost done :D

Back home now.

Warm bed.

Outside warm enough that my snot doesnt freeze when I breathe :)

Floor that doesnt move.

No snow :(

Moscow was awesome. St petersburg was even more awesome. I shall post when I am less tired. And pictures should hopefully follow. Marked lots of Russia with snow angels. The Russians may have looked on dissaprovingly but damn it was fun.

Me and peter the great have also met...or at least me and his statue anyway.

And I also came face to face with the no shit scaryness of the Baboshkas. Who made me buy a ticket for my luggage

I decided to start reading again, because over the past couple of years I havent been really making the time.

So I started with the Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham.  It's a pretty amazing book. I remember the day of the triffids which while it was a story about man eating plants, was actually pretty terrifying. This one was almost analytical, as though it were explaining events that had actually happened.

Anyways, it was pretty awesome.

So my 3rd assignment is finished and off.
 Just another 5 to go...

It is all set, I am pre entered for all 4 of the waterside series races this is what i am in for:

Waterside A: 13 miles, 21 portages
Waterside B: 17 Miles, 18 portages
Waterside C: 21 miles, 31 portages
Waterside D: 34 miles, 21 portages

I am booked into a hotel for D because race start is in devises for 7am, and i dont fancy getting up at 4 in the morning and then trying to race for 6 hours. Yeoch

So needless to say I am training in earnest, please note that each race has a weekend btween it, with which i am doing the thamesides...yay. Still in pain from the gym yesterday, seem to have found new ways of torturing myself.

Worst one is holding yourself in the chin up position withyour arms constantly bent and seeing how long you can hold it for...i am RUBBISH at that and gave up after 5 seconds.

And the declining bench for situps has me still aching.

Anyways, i now need to go to some on water training, Luckily enough its not to cold out there at the moment.

I am in the a world of pain tomorrow.

10 miles, 6 portages...and it will probably only be a couple of degrees above 0 when we start

Which means cold hands...really cold hands...perhaps even numb hands.

Yay!

Woo! I got two awards at the clubs agm. I am now the fastest lady paddler (i feel like i should wear a dress when i go out training now) and I was one half of the fastest K2. So i know have a shield that i am not entirely sure what to do with. No space in my room :S
We now have another person joining our unofficial running group on mondays...this shall be the 2nd time we meet.
Not far only 2 miles. My little old lady legs cant handle any more!

In also good news I have got all my forms for my russian visa, now i just need to get some new photos taken and then post them off on monday. It is turning out to be pretty expensive :( though luckily with it being my 21st much of my planes flight is being paid for with birthday money, and my nan has agreed to pick up my visa cost £100!?!

Anyways...time for bed.

A question that asks me how long it takes to melt a pot of ice sounds easy.

When it throws in stuff like the specific latent heat capacity is 4.2x10(3) J KG (-1) Degrees celsius

And that the specific heat capacity is 3.3x10(5) J Kg (-1)

I know i might need a little research. If just to figure out what the hell specific latent, and specific heat capacity is (which alone took me about an hour)

However now that i've got the bloody damn answer...I hope. And achieved a lovely colourful array on my white board, i am feeling quite satisfied.

Now im onto operating theatres electrical charges and special non rubber shoes. Help sarah? (ps the watt is a measure of the joule over seconds :D)

Heh, luckily caught the word my spell check wanted to replace it with

Should be: at the subducting zone
Would have been: at the seduction zone

I dont think that would have gotten me extra points.
 

In news today, hannah came over last night to watch some zombie films, watched dawn of the dead (dont worry sarah i saved some for us too) and randomnly the new indiana jones film. We then went to some random car park where i taught her how to ride my bike, was amusing, and then just ended sitting up talking until 2am. Not even entirely sure what about.
Which is good because it turns out she is actually seeing only 1 guy. And really didnt like david. So I can resolve by concerning opinion.

I am writing this mainly in order to procrastinate. Back to my subducting zones and volcanic arcs...yay.

I have procrastinated. it is now time to start writing.

Schist and limestone here i come...woo.

Hehe, I just took my mum on the back of my bike.
Needless to say, she is NOT very good at hiding her terror.

And now i really need to tidy my bedroom.

I have done my 3rd assessment which i scored 90% and just about to start the preparing the written part of the test.

Did my sisterly role in giving mike a lift back from north camp...in the rain and wind. what a good sister am i! Of course he's probably regreting it now because hes completely soaked, on account of me having a spare jacket but not waterproof trousers or gloves.

Tomorrow I am crashing jasons house in order to do some more on the torture machine (treadmill)

Tempted to join the gym at the garrison, i like the pec decks, they will give my humoungous boobies.

Went kayaking today, canal is currently like soup. The amount of leaves mean that i get them all cuaght up on the front and on the rudder, and of course no one else seems to have the same issues...highly annoying. But not particularly cold...rainy but not cold. I was able to start feeling my hands after 5 minutes o getting on the water.

Russia is slowly getting sorted, sister dearest is sorting out my visa, or at least figuring out what i need (did you know if you stay longer than 90 days you have to have an aids test) We are planning to spend a couple of nights in st petersburg, and doing lots of sightseeing, and i also need smart clothes because to eat in nice places they are very strict. But i dont want to spend loads on a dress im not going to wear all that much. I have the one from my christmas party last year, but it makes me look fat :(

Any how, all i am doing now is procrastinating. Time to get back to orbital speeds and centrifugal forces...yay.

Today was a day full of pain. And NOT good pain.

Temperature was just above 0 this morning, I cycled into kayaking, which while was chilly was not to bad. Got to kayaking changed into thin shoes so not designed for strolling around in freezing cold water. Got on the water doused in lots more cold canal water. Got to the point were i had to keep looking down to check my paddle was in my hand because i could feel nothing. And of course the wind picks up, which means when I over take or get over taken i get more buckets over water thrown into my lap.
My hands were warm by the end, but i had to go through the pain of having them warm up.

However despite all this I was pretty awesome, beating people 2 divisions ahead of me.

And theeeen I cycled home again.

And I have only just warmed up.

Chilly McWilly.

It's pretty early at the moment, I am oddly enough not particularly tired.

Going to be looooads of overtime at work this week, and with all the stuff i do in the evenings, its all going to have to be in the morning. However since today is monday and its getting dark early there is no kayaking tonight...so i have an evening free!...To study.

Uni course isnt going to bad, doing geology at the moment...I hate rocks. And figuring out how they came to the conclusion that the earth has a crust, mantle, outer and inner core seems way beyond me at the moment. But im sure ill get it.

Fingers crossed should be seeing hannah at some point, may go down to oxford to watch saw, which has just come out. Not particularly a big fan of it, but its an excuse. On which note i have still not decided quite what to do about her, but I think i may just go with it, see what happens.

Its cold outside..not looking forward to work at the moment. Roll on pay day.

I cant remember when i last posted, so i figured why not now!

So I am still immensly traumatised by watching the grudge, though it was a good excuse for me and hannah to cower on my bed in terror. And i have to keep reminding myself that she does have a BOYFRIEND.

I found out the girl i sat next to had in fact lied to me about her virginity, and was not a virgin. I thought it was socially uncool to be a virgin (not that thats my opinion, i mean virgin away dear virgins) But i have been talking to her for 6 months, thats almost 8 hours a day of talking. thats just over 1000 hours of talking. I couldnt help but ask questions either, it was a bit like a train wreck, morbid fascination, i didnt really want to talk about it because the though of her having sex with a man is kinda gross, but i was actually quite interested in the answers.
I was a bit bemused at the fact she slept with him 10 months after dating him and then they decided to stop...i mean why stop? was it not good, i thought i would have been able to stop my self from asking. Because i really dont want to know if she enjoyed having sex with her boyfriend...but it just came out. The question...not anything else

I have just managed to make a whole paragraph about my work collegues sexual habits.

In other news i have had my hair cut, i got bored today and it seemed like a good idea. I looked at my hair on the floor to see that i had loped off (by i i mean the hairdresser) about 5 inches of hair 5 INCHES.

I also succeded in finding a black long sleeved t-shirt.

And now i am about to play tomb raider. Because i have been deprived of hot women to ogle at, and it seems the computer is the best place :)

I AM AWAKE and high on caffiene and cream and sugar.

And attemping to psyche myself up tp swim...its cold...realy cold.

Dum tiddly um.

I am watching the grudge with hannah at somepoint.

I dont think she is truely aware of how much that film freaks me out...i can even remember most of it because i subcounsiuosly repressed it.

I think alot of beer...or maybe something stronger will be required in order to get through this.

I think i got hand cramp when sarah made me watch it

Darned