So this is my first post since getting to Leamington Spa. No I haven't tried the waters yet. So the last week has been a mixture of fun and games. First up was moving. A 21 hour marathon of fun. Rob, my sister's boyfriend, helped us move in the van they hired for us. Two trips back and forth from Manchester and plenty of loading and unloading in the rain. Oh and did I say I fucking hate the taxi drivers who parked right outside the old flat making it even more of a hassle loading up the second time. The fun and excitement of getting to leamington was soon replaced by fatigue and some madness (Sam getting spaced out by the neon road signs).
Of course to make matters better.... err worse.... was that we had a leak in the flat in the main bedroom because the pressure was too high in the boiler and the piping in the walls in the bedroom popped. Joy. Oh and how much fun is it to get the landline connected to a brand new flat?? Not very and also very expensive. Ergo yesterday we got mobile broadband and in the deal a brand new laptop. The up side of this?? We can take the internet on holiday with us!! It also means we have no sky now... but I think that it has made us realise that we really only need freeview. I mean do we need 100+ channels of shite we never watch.
Today has been sort of my first real day at work. Rob Deeth, my new supervisor, it very laid back compared to Paul Popelier. This can be both a blessing and a curse. On the upside my previous knowledge of machine learning and of course my links to the Popelier group are already being brought into play. My new work will focus on the modelling of Copper complexes in proteins. I think from I have learnt so far that copper is important for understanding prion diseases.
Leamington we are finding is quite a pretty, sunny, clean, pigeon-less, town. It has many nice restaurants and cafes and it is pleasant not to have morons walking into us while we go down the street. The university of Warwick is likewise very nice and has it's own cinema and theater. It's very green fields and is a short journey on the bus away. This has allowed me to once more enjoy reading books while on the bus.
Otherwise that's about it. Right now just trying find out whats on, getting together a roleplay group and of course getting married in a months time!
Well I think that is all.
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