I'm wearing my dressing gown.

It's big and red and fluffy.

Currently baking. Details to be announced at a later date. (Itsa suprise.)

Lovely few days of being fed.

Sunday went out for dinner with the Pedrophile. Monday fajitas at Charlotte's. Tuesday curry at Harry's. And today pasta at Sarah's.

Monday was quite lovely. We ceilidhed hard.

The whole cutting down on drinking was working well in some respects, as I haven't been out since resolving it.

But failing in others, as I have drunk a lot.

With my current penchant for baking and my continuing gin habit I'm quite happy to announce I'm turning into a 1950s housewife. Which, in all honestly I can life with.

Met with my lovely David Hampton, that is THE David W. Hampton of Cell-Mediated Neuroprotection in a Mouse Model of Human Tauopathy [2010] Neurobiology of Disease.

And yeah, talked through summer stuff. I should be up for eight weeks in the summer playing with mice brains and hopefully saving lives.

Basically, it's a prospective treatment for Frontal Temporal Dementia, but could also work for people suffering from strokes or Alzheimer's. EXCITING.

(S'all about increasing glutamate re-uptake in astrocytes.)

So... all time top things...

I dunno.

• PEOPLE
• 'kittens' gang and associated events
• Edinburgh family
• learning about things I actually enjoy
• Aaall the festivals

That's a kinda shit one because I panicked.

So... well... erm... here's some people in kilts.

Colour me Catherine.

Because I now own her, to the tidy tune of £164, and in lue of her participation I shall be blogging on Cath's behalf, utilising some choice excerpts of our facebook conversations.

20/1/2012
- i start watching grays anatomy

24/1/2012
- Can you ask your medical students if I should go to the doctors when I keep getting a weird pressure type pain in my chest for no apparent reason and it lasts for like a few hours and has been happening for like 3 days but Im not short of breath or anything so I figure its nothing bad and probably like a weird type of heart burn or something but the one I know keeps saying that I should go to the doctors which would be a lot of hassle

25/1/2012
- still no sin of a loan atm
- I had to borrow money to wash my clothes today :(
- My life is so strange now I cant afford to go out, Im doing an online spanish course and Ive caught up with most of my work and signed up to seminars and I might start doing volunteer work. (sometimes I even listen to classic fm) I NEED THIS TO STOP SOON
- Its not right. Im reading a book about plato and making notes on how he has informed modern political thought for no reason. Its not impressive its weird, I ran out of tv I like so I literally dont know what to do.
- Ive always wondered what CIAO means

26/1/2012
- I think I might accidently have stumbled upon the saddest film ever. I cried so much the neighbour I barely know came to see if Im ok.
she heard me through walls

29/1/2012
- Hendricks boobs are so disproportionately big
- I was definately frightened
- Ive lost my shoes
Im jsut going to have to stay in eastwing until I starve to death

31/1/2012
- be honest, have i crossed a line?? I feel vommy.....
- I hit a few people in the face, gave some nose bleeds I cant move or ill vomit

I hope you all feel a little bit closer to our dear friend.

I have no excuse.

My last 2 months of not blogging have been great guys, I've done so much stuff that I couldn't possibley talk about but it's been awesome. I promise if you look through the blog drafts I've attempted to do it (ahahahaha) atleast a couple of times.

Will already talked about the weekend that we had, it was great and I wish I went to university in Bristol with Will and Jo and have fun, but alas I live in London and spend all my time working.

I'm not going to blog well today I'm afraid guys, just dipping my toes in the shallow end of the blogosphere, not diving straight in.

So yeah! (probably my most used blog-phrase in the history of TFM) My top 5 things are:

• 2000 trees
• Nationalyouthchoir/singing
• Driving in Will's car
• SCIENCE
• Music

I have others and I'm sure there are things I havn't thought of, but these seem like the best things I can think of.

OH AND I saw Childish Gambino on thursday night and it was pretty much the best thing, right now I also really like beans on toast (mainly the artist but the food's pretty great too)

Also I just want you guys to know that I'm part of the small but comitted Anti-blog-combining defiers, or the ABCD, this is our flag and we think the blogs should remain seperate!

Things I'm excited for:

• 2000Trees
• Croatia
• Frank Turner at Easter

Things I'm not excited for:

• Checking my bank balance
• Everything else
  

I’ve had the same jeans on for 3 days now… and the same shirt, pants and socks.

I’ve kind of got that post festival feeling going on right now. I have drunk heavily and slept very little for the past 3 nights and haven’t showered or got changed (I am aware how disgusting that is).

So where to begin this story of adventure?

On Thursday I did ubrub again. The theme was ‘back to front’ so we were tied together one facing forwards and the other facing back MY FIRE ALARM IS GOING OFF WHAT. 

Ok so it turns out Ro has some friends over and they were doing birthday cake in her room and it got a bit out of hand, all is well now.

Anyway, where was I? So we were tied together, 2 facing forwards and 2 facing backwards and we started the night in a nightclub and had to race around 6 bars and end up at someone’s house. I’m not going to lie, we did really well and managed to drink the 7 drinks in about 25 minutes. I felt horrible right after.

On Friday everyone came to Bristol for Jo’s birthday and that was just lovely. Most of you were there so I won’t go into detail but I had a great time and Thekla was fun. On Saturday everyone but Matt, Kate and David left so we hung out in Bristol and had milkshakes and made Thai curry. Matt had to go home but the remaining four of us went to the pub and got drunk again. I had so planned on going back to my house to actually sleep after that but David made friends with some guy because of his t shirt and he invited us back to Jo’s halls for a party, it was too good an offer to refuse. The party was not really a party at all, but we sat in Jo’s common room and debated lots of issues which seems a strange thing to do but was actually really really nice and I didn’t go to sleep until 4 because everything was so interesting. So yeah, that’s pretty much the story of the weekend.

In other news I have a challenge for you. David and I were talking in the pub about what our favourite things were. By this I mean your favourite inanimate object or activity (friends and family aren’t allowed on this list). With this in mind, I present to you, in no particular order, my all time top things:

1. The internet
2. Science/the scientific process
3. 2000 trees
4. Potatoes
5. Music

I think those are the best things for now, but it may well change.

Oh, I signed a house this week. That was awesome. It’s on Clyde Road which is about 5 minutes further from uni than where I am now but it is maybe a bit nicer and slightly cheaper. It has a really big patio area out the back where we can have barbecues and I think that will be just lovely.

Right, this is very important news. For anyone who doesn’t know already, 2000trees tickets go on sale tomorrow at 8 am sharp! In order to get the ticket link you need to click attending on this facebook page and then get up early tomorrow and get on that shit. Same deal as every year, need to get the main ticket and early entry Thursday ticket. I am incredibly excited!

No funny pictures this week. I can't find the folder I save them in. 

Love you

pets

I am the king of remembering my own password, and to blog...

Oh yeah, I'm bringing the one word story back.

Sorry I've forgotten for the past few weeks, I'd give soe cock-and-bull reason but we know how this works now: I forget for weeks on end, then post an inadequate one and carry on as usual. No questions asked.

FIRST THINGS FIRST! CROATIA, YOU GUYS. I'M SUPER PUMPED. At first I just kept looking at the threads and being like 'ahhhh, totally can't afford it' and hid in shame but I got really sad at the thought of all of you in Croatia missing me so badly, I wrote out my budget and got on it. Best decision I've ever made I'll wager.

Tonight our house is having a party for my housemate's birthday, it's viking themed so I've seretly made a longboat out of cardboard at a friends house so we can rock in to the party in that and bought him a mead horn so ale can be quaffed in true viking style.

Not a lots happened this week, I've been really busy writing my mini-dissertation which is just fingerbreaking shit. Oh yeah,and I caught three fish this week :D AND I got myself a gig booked, all to myself. TERRIFIED.

Lily says hi, as does Will.

I knew from the beginning this blog wasn't going to be up to par, but this is really terrible now and people are starting to turn up so I have to go. Somebody give me a text next Thursday because it seems I really do need a kick up the arse to remember things these days. You guys rock, keep on blogging as you do. I'm missing you all and can't wait for Croatia.

Love to your mothers.