… this brightened a bit my day today 🙂 . Not too long until Summer!
(and waking up today with the sunlight just flooding my bedroom was also absolutely fantastic! I was missing you, sun…)
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Canterbury cathedral at a distance
Via Flickr:
In a foggy morning, as seen from the UKC campus.
There you go!
I “fixed” the “designed for Windows XP” label. Much better now! (it would be perfect if our laser printer would print it in colour, but one can’t have it all..)
I really can’t wake up late…
… today I woke up at 10:30 and spent the rest of the day with a massive headache. It happens every the time I oversleep! :/
(but yeah, after waking up yesterday at 6 AM for my morning practice, followed by a birthday party in the evening, I really needed the rest, even though it shouldn’t have been this much! 😛 )
how on earth
have I managed to get a blister on this side of my thumb? Whenever I get blisters they are always on the other side!
Sculling, you’re doing it wrong! 😛
Sunny and bright!
Just the way I like it… And it seems that the good weather is here to stay, at least for a few days!… 🙂
The best way to start a very long day!
Having a nice cup of coffee and some awesome chocolate chip muffins (I am positively addicted to them!), while looking at my snowy surroundings. And so another week begins!… 🙂
And so it begins!…
Spent all afternoon printing a fresh batch of lab reports to mark :P. And now, let the fun begin!… (apparently tomorrow the weather will not be as inviting as today, so I really have no excuses for not starting… 🙁 )
Anyway, I shouldn’t complain that much, this morning I had a brilliant outing on a single scull – no wind, no rain, had the river all for myself (and its banks, as I kept hitting them 😛 ). It was quite chilly, though… (couldn’t feel my hands for more than a quarter of the outing) Ah, I’m eagerly waiting for the warmer months…
This was a nice surprise…
… but please, guys, next time get my university’s name right! Kent State Uni is in the United States, not in Canterbury, UK! 🙂
(By the way, I have too many magazines getting to me and too little time to read them… :P)
And, finally!,…
… I had what I can properly call a “rowing weekend”. Had outings on both Saturday and Sunday, and funnily enough I’m actually getting up earlier on weekends than on weekdays! (well, my lab is only a 10 min bike ride from where I’m living now, so I can afford to take things easy while getting ready for work – eg I can have my breakfast calmly whilst looking outside and admiring the wildlife that seems to be attracted by the lovely garden! (can’t blame them, though, I’m also attracted by it!))
Anyway, I’m drifting from my original topic at an alarming rate (I normally notice that when I have to close two separate sets of brackets… 😉 ), let’s get back into what I had initially planned, OK?
Back to the rowing… on Saturday it was absolutely terrible. I filled in for an absence on a novice men’s crew and we took a 4+ out – we actually spent more time in the bank trying to set ourselves free from the overhanging tree branches, since the wind was continuously blowing us against one of the banks (the Stour runs to the East, and sadly that day the wind was blowing from NW… and quite strongly as well!).
So, yes, we did 3k and called it a day (outch). During the afternoon we had the aforementioned capsize drill at the pool and I came back home feeling a bit tired and all (definitely not due to physical exertion, as I had done absolutely nothing that day! But my sleeping levels were quite low as the day before I had been watching Silent Witness and the episode in question was actually quite thrilling 🙂 ).
This morning I had to get up at 0600 and we arrived at the boathouse with the day just breaking. Much nicer than the day before, not only was the wind noticeably milder but it was also blowing from the west – it was a bit tougher on the way back but much, much better than being stuck in those tree branches!! 🙂 Ended up taking the very same single in which I capsized the day before out for a 10k outing – quite nice, indeed, even though I still miss “my” old Aylings (bah, I know it isn’t mine, but I’ve developed a bit of an affection for it and I tend to be a bit overprotective when someone else is using it… 😛 ).
OK, I think this basically sums up my weekend: plenty of rowing! I think I’m probably compensating in advance for next weekend, given that a pile of reports to mark is looming ahead!…. 😛
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