Claire's blog

Been to an interesting talk today on tissue engineering heart muscle by Prof. Buddy Ratner. It’s the first scientific talk I’ve been to in quite a while (what with spending a lot of time back home with Mum and Dad while I wrote my thesis), and I was pleased to find I understood it! Not lost all my scientific muscles then. As is also proved by the fact that the smooth muscle cells I started culturing on Saturday are happily proliferating (this was my first bit of lab work in about a year).

Weather’s changeable, and I got soaked to the skin running from NTL’s offices from the car park (really, really wet – I had to go home and change. My own fault, I left my umbrella in the car even though I knew it was raining). It was worth it though – NTL have promised that they are coming out to connect my apartment block to their network in the next couple of days, and I’ve now got an appointment to have my internet (and therefore my phone) and TV connected a week Friday. This is the earliest appointment they had to offer, but I mean to keep hanging around their offices doing my lost puppy impression on the off-chance an earlier spot opens up. It’s taken them two months to sort out, dammit! I NEED phone, internet and TV. I’ve watched most of the stock of the local video place! But soon I can phone my friends and convince them I’ve not completely forgotten them, my parents can stop running up large phone bills phoning Ireland and I CAN UPDATE MY WEBSITE!!!

My landlord is very impressed though. He’s been trying to sort this out for me for the last 6 weeks and getting nowhere. When I called to give him the good news he described me as a one person pressure group 😆

Speaking of DVDs, my recent watching has included…