Sem 2 - in progress

• Advanced Vector Calculus by Dr Naughton
• Numerical Methods by Prof Roberts
• Advanced Classical Wave Theory by Dr Kohlne
• Partial Differential Equations by Prof Roberts
• Mathematical Modelling by Dr McKay
• Electrostatics by Dr Sinclair
• Advanced Newtonian Mechanics by Dr McKay
• Quantum Probabilities by Dr Hooley

Sem 1 - done

• Thermodynamics by Dr Smith
• Advanced Mechanics by Prof Bonnell
• Linear Alge...

Today I realised that every boy/man I've ever dated - since I was 15 - has been a scientist. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.

I have dated a:

• Mechanical engineer
• Chemical engineer x2
• Biochemist
• Material chemist
• Physicist
• Internet Computer Scientist
• Software analyst
• Mathematician x3
• Statistician
• Medic [don't know if Medicine counts as a science but hey...]
• Geoscientist

Scientists are just sexy I guess ;)

• 21/01-25/01: Stockholm to visit Louise!
• 31/01-07/02: Marrakech with the physicists!
• 13/02-14/02: Glasgow to see Vampire Weekend
• 16/04-24/04: New York City to go shopping basically.
• end of may sometime: Belfast to visit Naomi!
• beginning of June sometime: Napoli/Benevento/San Lucido for the annual visit to the family!
• 25/06-08/08: Cape Town, SA. For my six week research placement in the experimental physi...

• Why are you a vegetarian?
• What do you want to do now?
• Do you believe in God?
• What's it like being born on Christmas Day?
• Why do you want to study physics?
• What're you doing later/tomorrow/next week?
• How's your family?
• What do you want for your birthday/Christmas?
• Are you ok?
• Is Aberdeen a nice place?
• What's your favourite film?
• How do you get your hair like that?
• Who's your favourite artist?
• What do you want t...

To various people, in no particular order:

• I'm sorry it seems like I'm running away from you
• I'm sorry I made things difficult
• I'm sorry you had to see me like that
• I'm sorry I ruined your night...several times
• I'm sorry for not intervening
• I'm sorry I haven't lived up to your expectations
• I'm sorry I'm not a better role-model
• I'm sorry that I don't want to see you
• I'm sorry I can't make up my mind
• I'm sorr...

To various people in no particular order:

• For being patient with me
• For realising my potential
• For holding me up when I needed you to
• For keeping me down when I needed you to
• For making me happy, even just for a little while
• For keeping me warm
• For giving me courage
• For the Friday nights
• For the Saturday mornings
• For giving me a chance
• For giving me a second chance
• For telling me when I'm being an idiot
• For op...

• Discovering no money in my bank account whatsoever.
• A new law being laid down which proclaims everyone must be married by the age of 25.
• A spider successfully breeds with a bluebottle and so then makes a flying spider which buzzes loudly. If this then mated with a millipede I think I'd have to live in quarantine.
• My eyelashes falling out.
• Dying when I'm not wearing matching underwear, I worry that the...

• I had a train to catch at 0710 and didn't want to risk sleeping in so I stayed up and watched iPlayer whilst drinking powerful coffee and eating cheese sandwiches.
• When I was about ten I was at a sleepover and everyone else fell asleep but I couldn't because there were weird noises in the house so I lay awake until morning.
• The night before my higher English exam I remembered that I'd have to write ...

• During my time as a General Science Mentor I got punched in the neck by an 11 year old boy. He didn't want to sit down and let me know this in no uncertain terms.
• While working as an Assistant Ski Instructor in Saas Fee I skiied into a fence. Yes, a fence. The eight children who were following me neatly stopped beside me and offered me help to get up. I genuinely didn't see it. I swear. I only twis...

• I am the master of any Su Doku which crosses my path.
• I can quote to a high degree of accuracy, the entire works of HG Wells.
• I can work in Javascript, LaTex and Maple (and HTML, DHTML, XHTML and CSS but then anyone who's ever had a myspace page can do this).
• I am registered on this website
• I am learning Esperanto.
• My favourite past-time as a child was to write quiz questions to test my mother on.
• My f...

• How to wire a plug
• How to invest
• How to speak Arabic, Norwegian and Russian
• How to park a car
• How to jump start a car
• How to change a tyre
• How to make a CV
• How to perform circular reference calculations on MS Excel
• How to solve a rubik's cube
• How to hold a cigarette properly
• How to sell my shares
• How to change a fuse
• How to use a laser-level
• How to ride a bike
• How to do presentations
• How to polish shoes
• How to in...

• How to talk myself into/out of things
• How to peel an orange
• How to do ANYTHING whilst driving
• How to write essays
• How to frame pictures
• How to network
• How to tie my shoes
• How to get my own way
• How to make a calypso coffee
• How to pleat my hair
• How to speak Italian and French [and so, by default, Spanish :p]
• How to city drive
• How to apply make-up
• How to pretend to be sober
• How to make mix-tapes
• How to flirt
• How to ...

• Astronaut - every young nerd has considered this
• Russian Doll Designer - Bit bizarre
• Neurologist - Takes way too long to qualify!
• Delivery Driver - I'd love to drive about for a living but father won't allow it.
• Cinematographer - Father pushed me away from that one too.
• Professional Snowboarder - Not quite good enough
• Mechanical Engineer - Too easy!! [I'm joking...it's not. I just don't enjoy involving ...

Because my blood pressure is very very low I faint a lot. Here are some of the more interesting places I've fainted.

• In the stands at a Dons game
• During my solo performance at a primary school christmas concert
• In the changing rooms at the Aberdeen Beach Leisure centre
• In a nightclub - embarrassing - people thought I'd taken something
• Getting out of a taxi in Edinburgh
• On Concorde - it wasn't moving tho...

1. Napoli
2. Lanark
3. Aberdeen
4. Roma
5. Fontainebleau
6. Paris
7. St Andrews

• I call Edinburgh "InbrEdinburgh" and Dundee "Scumdee". This actually only annoys people who are from these cities.
• I like to matchmake people and I sometimes get it very wrong and destroy relationships.
• My extreme sarcasm.
• I get up and say "My destination is the urination station" meaning "I'm off for a pee." A few people find this funny but a lot of people find this irritating.
• My Glaswegian/Italian/...

Times when I've been wrong about something.

• When I said Johnny Cash died in 2002. I was out by a year.
• When I thought that "Feed The World" was the best-selling song in UK chart history. Can't remember what was.
• When I didn't believe my father when he said that Philip Glenister had a brother who was also an actor. Robert Glenister exists.
• When my mother was ill. In a very House-esque manner I diagnose...

Not including National Insurance number, PINs, phone numbers and ID numbers ;)

• 0 - the age I was when I 'met' my best friend
• 0 - weddings attended [compare with funerals, further down the list]
• 1 - my final BAGA grade
• 1 - the number of minor faults I got in my driving test
• 1.0 - my GPA at high school, all gone downhill since
• 1 - number of men I have ever properly loved
• 2 - number of men who have loved me...

• Firstly, the fact that this list is so long!! I always thought I was so content. I guess since I don't express my annoyances in real life this is my way of venting. Let's get started.
• Glasvegas. The way the guy sings makes my skin crawl. No-one doubts you're from Glasgow mate. You didn't have to name your band after the city AND put on a pure weegie street accent.
• My cleaner rearranging my pillows i...

• "Little Bitty Pretty One" by Thurston Harris
• "The Magic Position" by Patrick Wolf
• "Old Time Rock and Roll" by Bob Seger
• "Paint it Black" by The Rolling Stones
• "Napoleon" by The Hussy's

Things whose invention, creation, discovery or pure existence makes me a happier person for one reason or another. UPDATE: Now in alphabetical order!

• ABBA
• (Videos made by) ABBA
• (Outfits worn by) ABBA
• Arcades
• Arctic foxes
• Australians
• Awkward moments
• Balloons
• Blooper-reels
• Blu-tac
• Bobble-hats
• Bodger and Badger
• (all you can eat) Buffets
• Bulldog clips
• Calvin & Hobbes comics
• "(the) Carlton Dance"
• Cats
• Chariots of Fire ...

• Alex Turner (from Arctic Monkeys) - in a nightclub [wearing a raincoat!]
• Sean Penn (actor) - eating in a restaurant...
• Princess Anne (The Princess Royal) - drinking tea...with my mum...
• Katherine Granger (olympic rower) - parking her car
• Lee Ryan (from Blue) - on a plane
• Andy Murray (tennis player) - browsing DVDs in HMV (he's not as tall as he looks on TV...)
• Billy Connelly (comedian) - At the Lonach G...

• Being late for work.
• Waking up before the alarm goes off and thinking you've got another few hours of sleep until you look at the time and it's four minutes until the alarm's going to sound or something.
• Stepping in a puddle.
• Meeting an ex whilst out on a date, I fear that my ex will be telepathically warning my date to get out while he still can.
• Forgetting PINs.
• Putting on wet clothes. Urghhh.
• Really ...

• Waking up in a different country. Breathing the air of a different land.
• When you know you've made someone happy
• Surprising people. In a good way. Not in the "Holy Bejesus why are you hiding in my wardrobe" kind of way. This is a bad surprise.
• A cup of tea.
• A glass of wine.
• Sneezing. Especially when you've felt it coming a while.
• Finding more money than expected in your bank account.
• Writing neatly. I do...

• The new Doctor Who. I think it could be the fact that he is lacking in the eyebrow department??
• Hugh Laurie's accent in House. There IS such a thing as too good. It's just concerningly convincing. And to quote one of my American flatmates whilst watching Blackadder, "You said Americans can't do English accents!" Oh dear.
• The "spiderwalk scene" in The Exorcist. I say it's the scariest part of the who...

I have:

• Been sick
• in a tent
• in a flat in Paris
• and on a pavement
• twice
• Told people I loved them
• when I do
• but they weren't supposed to know that
• when I don't
• or when I don't know them
• Watched the entire first season of the Mighty Boosh
• and subsequently had months of nightmares
• Tried skiing
• and failed
• Taken out membership to a casino
• Been thrown out of
• clubs
• taxis
• trains
• bars
• restaurants
• my student union
• twice
• and Edinbur...

• I cried at the end of Lilo and Stitch. I don't even cry at funerals.
• I used to wish that I'd get locked in my high school over the weekend. I had a whole survival plan. It involved raiding vending machines and sleeping on the crash mats in the PE department. Never had the opportunity unfortunately.
• I used to be infatuated with the postman at my work. When it was around the time he usually came I'd m...

• Ugg boots:
• if worn with tights, leggings or (perish the thought) with bare legs then these boots will make you look like you have very chubby knees.
• look fantastic with trackies tucked into them if you're going for the androgynous, "mate, what is it" look.
• give you bad posture due to the lack of support.
• will give off the impression that you are carrying at least one sexually transmitted disease. Men ...

thieved [and slightly edited for clarity] from the facebook group!

1. High school cafeterias are vast and spacious, leaving plenty of room to spontaneously break into song and dance, and are in no way packed, crowded or uncomfortable.
2. It's completely acceptable for the female drama teacher to walk into the male changing room where her young male students are showering.
3. A white, 5'9" junior is the best h...

• My feet are size 5
• I have a freckle on my shoulder
• Another freckle on my stomach
• My hair is dark brown, long, curly and messy.
• sometimes straightened.
• My nails are always french manicured
• Dark brown eyes, apparently they're black but whatever
• I wear blue contacts sometimes
• I am 5'3" short
• No muscles whatsoever - except the "badminton" muscle [right forearm]
• A bit of a pout
• I have hyper-extending elbows - the...

A translation of things my ex-boyfriend said compared with what he meant. This was for my own reference but since we broke up I will distribute to his future partners for their reference. That's right, we broke up. Surprising really, who wouldn't want to date someone like this:

• "I think we should talk" means:
• "You're in major trouble"/"I am not happy with something you have done"
• "Do you want to know...

• "Lower your expectations, I'm Scottish." - something I had to say recently after failing to catch a frisbee.
• "Natural Logarithms solve everything." - something I am determined to prove one way or another
• "Well actually, I think you'll find that..." - a common starter to my sentences.
• "If only I could live in a vaccuum..." - I do truly wish for this.
• "I know more about most things than most other peopl...

I am someone who gets very confused with film plots very easily. Here are some films that I still don't get, even after repeated viewings and people explaining them to me.

• The Matrix - I mean, what?!
• Lucky Number Sleven - But he was going to kill him but he killed him and he's actually him and the other guy was this other guy and...ahhh
• Taxidermi - perhaps watching it with no subtitles had some beari...

• Sophie Germain's correspondence with Karl Gauss wiki - Simon Singh's account in "Fermat's Last Theorem" is fantastic.
• Arthur Eddington's correspondence with Albert Einstein during WW2 - especially Andy Serkis and David Tennant's film adaption of this story.

In chronological order:

Europe:

• UK
• Sweden
• Norway
• ROI
• Monaco
• Poland
• France
• Germany
• Luxembourg
• Denmark
• Spain
• Portugal
• Italy
• Switzerland
• Austria
• Belgium
• The Netherlands
• Cyprus
• Liechtenstein
• Greece

Asia:

• Saudi Arabia
• Yemen
• Bahrain
• Nepal
• Thailand

Africa

• South Africa
• Lesotho
• Morocco
• Algeria
• Tunisia
• Zimbabwe

North America

• USA

My friends and I require nicknames to distinguish between people we know.

• Dickhead David
• Hat David
• Posh Josh
• Hockey Josh
• Girl Chris
• Boy Chris
• Stoner Chris
• Rich Tea Chris
• Blonde Rachel
• News Rachel
• Irish Jamie
• Blonde Jamie
• Lizzie the slag
• Hat Bruce
• Dr Bruce
• Barman Bruce
• Rugby Guy
• Wannabe Rugby Guy
• Hot Callum
• Hot Callum 2
• Normal Callum
• South African Guy
• Crazy Jess
• Scary Lucy
• Physics Adam
• Cyclist Adam
• Irish Laura
• English Laura
• Be...