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So since my last post there has been quite a few good things going on.

Things have become brighter with Sam now having left the law firm of management hell and now works for the University, which is great as already it means she gets a lot more things with the job. Being a member of the uni means that there are a number of societies that she can join, in particular she has expressed an interest in taking up fencing, which would be awesome.

Of course there was a our house warming and wedding announcement party, and it was good to see everyone there and especially those people that I don't see often enough, and Mr Tofu gets a special thanks for his awesome cake!!!!

One weekend we made it out to the Lowry to go see Giselle, a ballet which was very good, maybe not up there with The Snow Queen in my opinion, but still the last act was great as 'ghosts' danced about, luring the young men to their deaths. A tragic story in all but very well done and the lighting and music was excellent.

The Gothan Knight anime Batman DVD is awesome and now our flat has 2 new Joker posters (one which Sam proclaims as 'gay and pink' but personally it just seems epically crazy to me). I also picked up the Dark Knight soundtrack which is a great collection of music, the score really set the tone for the movie which was still two weeks away when I got the cd. Waiting seriously sucked when the screening in the US was happening that weekend.

Last friday was also good news when I found out that my second paper had been accepted, a triumph considering that the paper really does set the tone of all future developments in the group.

Finally last night. OMGFG! THE DARK KNIGHT. Awesome, lived up to and surpassed the hype. I'm not going ot say anything more until you've all seen it. We went to see it at the IMAX. We will be  going again.

Oh and Watchmen looks like it will freaking rock!!! The trailer for that showed before TDK and well it was the first time I had seen it so getting to see it first in IMAX was fantastic.


Now lets introduce some anarchy!!

It's not finished.....

So friday (the 13th) was one hell of a mixed bag.

First up we got back the referee reports on my second paper. So far so good, just a few papers to cite and some questions to clean up but it's basically done, a landmark paper, one of very few in the field.

However the other thing is all my work so far we are now redoing with a better source of data.... it's shit but at least all the tools we have developed these few years are already in place and work. So really it's a waiting game now. But on the plus side it should really be two papers out of this work. Damn time is ticking away on this PhD.

Following this Sam and I spent that evening at Piccolini's, an attempt to find a pizza place that we like more than Croma. We failed. It was good there however the service is pretty shit as waiters that don't understand you fumble the orders and take your dish to the table next to you. I was pretty shitty to them to be honest but then they deserved it.

Later we joined the rest of the pack at Negresco for lordstorm's birthday. Sam  and I looked on as they munched and we just drank our cocktails. A good day in all.

As for the weekend it was pretty quite, with me not doing all that much, mooching round town and watching lots of films with Sam.

The following week saw the start of the new code at work slowly come together and feeling a bit better about it. The weekend was different, with Sam out at the Tony Wilson experience all of Saturday and on Sunday morning I went down to watch the Prof Brian Cox talk, and after being a bit pathetic finally went up to him as he was leaving ask a few quick questions. Apparently he comes into the MIB for coffee every now and then.

The following week finally let some things at work finish, with data now being generated at a tremendous speed and all the codes having been updated to be extra useful when doing the analysis.

Last friday randomly we went to Ara after thinking we might have a quite night in, but ended up enjoying the company of Stacey and then heading to the church for what was a relaxed and enjoyable night, bumping into a number of people in haven't seen in ages.

This weekend sees not much going on so Saturday is a chance for Sam to go to Sin City.
 
This last month, even though at some points has been difficult, has been one of the best in a long while. Sam leaves her job this friday and so we will have to be extra cautious with money, but I don't see her not being in work for too long, but the time out she will have will be good for both of us.


In other news just a reminder of the house warming party on the 11th of July at my place (see previous post) and that there is again some chance for me to do some free lance writing for a roleplay game.