Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

zagubov

Masomnia wrote: »

Whereas Oxford wouldn't have me but I got an A in General Studies. Boooo.

One more week of freedom until the Masters starts, and it can't come soon enough. I'm going stir crazy having nothing to do, I'm very bad at structuring time and motivating myself.

Planning on going for a run tomorrow morning. I don't get enough exercise, and taking up running seemed the thing to do. A friend of mine is doing a 10k in a couple of weeks and invited me along, but I don't think I'm up to that yet.

I'm going to have every Thursday morning off from uni, so thinking Thursday will be running day. There's a reservoir a short-ish drive away in a nice spot, and it's 4.5k round, which is far enough to push me a bit as a non-runner, but not so far that it completely knackers me. So I'm thinking if I can do that once a week I'll feel the benefit. Getting to uni will involve a fair amount of walking daily so it's not as if that'll be only exercise!

Other than that nothing much to report. The place I did the internship offered me a job, but they want someone more or less full time, and I can't fit it in. But it's nice that they offered!

That's good news about he job even though you're not in a posiution to accept. Keep them sweet as much as poss!

Don't discount the walking as exercise. It can be done more regularly than the running and is likely to do more good in the long run

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Hope you and DD enjoy your respective 43rd and 10th birthday presents! And that you got them the right way around - DD's is pinker, I think, and is definitely shorter. I forgot to label them before I gave them to LIR.

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I put them in different, named envelopes.

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Most veg doesn't need cooking, and tastes better raw (IMO). Carrots, peppers, red cabbage, mange tout / sugar snap peas etc can all just be munched cheerfully.



I don't get particularly nervous doing public speaking (-:

There's always the odd moment, though, when a judge in a legal hearing (where they interrupt far more than in evidence-based hearings) says something like, "Miss NDG, you surely don't expect me / us to accept that...." or, "But doesn't the case of R v Smith undermine your third ground of appeal completely?" when you've not even heard of R v Smith.

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One of the things about clerking is you know you never have to speak. Then one day my barrister was very, very late ( I think it was to wood green) and I kept having to apologise to the clerk in the court room.

Then the case got bloody called any way and I was thinking what do I do, what do I do...I don't know what to do....there must be some sort of protocol for what people who have no rights of audience are addressed in court by the judge...do I stand, what, what, what?

I wasn't nervous so much as rather wrong footed and really not knowing what to do, which I didn't much like. He just kept asking questions to which I had no answer, or know good answer, which is not a happy position to be in!

Counsel got a verbal beating when he did make it in.

lostinrates

Kids wrote off a car outside our house last night. Luckily no one was hurt. Did rather interrupt our evening.

chewmylegoff

Joyriders used to dump the cars they had nicked next to one of my old houses and set them on fire, which was always a pleasure. They also crashed an old jag into the roundabout out the front of my house, and finally pinched my car as well. This wasn't even a particularly dodgy area so god knows what it must be like to live somewhere that is really blighted by car crime.

misskool

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I promise being without windows is worse. In the winter, it's a nice sunny day outside but you don't even get to see it! Courts very rarely have windows, and it's disconcerting when you actually miss daylight for the entire day in December.

used to happen to me in the winter when i had to spend a lot of time in a dark room.I mostly avoid experiments like that now but it was pretty soul crushing to do a 6-hour experiment in a dark room.

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I love that series in the BBC Magazine, all sorts of interesting stuff.

Have any of your clever scientific NP come across the BBC programme called Science Club, hosted by Dara O Breen? Is it reasonably kosher, solid information, or random and not terribly trustworthy?

Excellent programme, well researched, a bit oddly presented but full of enthusiastic people. They also produce a bit of you can do this at home too (some of them quite good). extracting your own dna (or perhaps some onions) using vodka and washing up liquid. (if you can't find it and would like to do it, ask me and I'll pm it, we do it a lot for littlies)

misskool

Masomnia wrote: »

I'm going to have every Thursday morning off from uni, so thinking Thursday will be running day. There's a reservoir a short-ish drive away in a nice spot, and it's 4.5k round, which is far enough to push me a bit as a non-runner, but not so far that it completely knackers me. So I'm thinking if I can do that once a week I'll feel the benefit. Getting to uni will involve a fair amount of walking daily so it's not as if that'll be only exercise!

I'm also having to go to the doctors tomorrow as I have some kind of shoulder/back injury, can't really tell, and it's pretty debilitating. (The run may depend on how that's feeling!) Had to wait a week for the appointment and thought it would be better by now but if anything it's worse. Not exactly sure how I got it. I went paintballing two weeks ago and thought maybe I'd pulled a muscle doing that, but two weeks later and it's no better; so could be something more underlying.

Other than that nothing much to report. The place I did the internship offered me a job, but they want someone more or less full time, and I can't fit it in. But it's nice that they offered!

well done for starting! that was the part I found the hardest
I put it off for years.

Might be pinched a nerve if it hasn't improved in a week, an ostepath would be better placed than a gp as they can manipulate.
ice rather than heat as well if something is inflammed. (which was my mistake when I did mine in)

silvercar

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

OH's father summed up all Jewish festivals by saying, "They tried to kill all of us. Some of us survived. Let's eat."

He also pointed out on another occasion that while Christian festivals are mostly about what happened to God (father and or son and or holy ghost) Jewish festivals are mostly about what happened to Jews; directed by or orchestrated by God, but the events were experienced by the Jews. Would you agree, Silvercar?

Totally agree with the first bit. Not really on the 2nd bit - pentacost is god giving the jews the commandments, day of atonment is god demanding atonement for our sins, 10 plagues come from god on passover.
All a bit inter-related.
Come home to find DS1 has been offered the job he was waiting to hear about.:T

Also come home to find a whole load of paperwork about the mental health act, legal nearest relative, power of attorney and 4 "get me out of here!" texts. It seems my sister isn't coping and has now decided she won't be the legal nearest relative and doesn't want the power of attorney etc.

michaels

silvercar wrote: »

Also come home to find a whole load of paperwork about the mental health act, legal nearest relative, power of attorney and 4 "get me out of here!" texts. It seems my sister isn't coping and has now decided she won't be the legal nearest relative and doesn't want the power of attorney etc.

Very well done for avoiding all that while you were on holiday.

Did you find out what the smell was?!

GDB2222

I didn't realise there's such a thing as 'legal nearest relative'? Surely, it's a simple matter of whether you are nearest and whether you're a relative? Does that impose any burden under the law?

Has your sister disclaimed her POA? https://www.gov.uk/power-of-attorney/cancel-or-end-a-lasting-power-of-attorney

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/208544/lpa005.pdf