1 Week to go

Time for another blog entry. First of all, thanks to everyone who has left me comments, most of them have been positive :) Since the last entry I have managed to get my project write up nearly complete, just working on the last section before I send in a final draft later today. This week has been quite stressful but I managed to finish off my lab work and, for the record, my supervisor has more than redeemed himself this week by being amazingly helpful, so, all in all my general mood is a lot better! Tomorrow night is the RVC May ball so we'll all be getting dressed up in our smart clothes and dancing the night away, could be interesting as there is a free bar... Tomorrow is also the day that I have to pack up all my non-essential possessions ready for mom and Rob to cart them back to Kidderminster, so when I have an empty room I think it might finally sink in that I am going to be over the sea and far away very soon.

Well I should really get back to the exciting world of chemokines or I'll never get this thing finished in time.

Keep posting comments!

Stephen xx

The cat is out of the bag

Right, since people are going to be coming here once I start telling them about it I'd better write something more substantial in the old blog. So, as I already said, I'm off to America soon so rather than fill people's inboxes with emails I thought it might be a better idea to write things here and people can check/ignore my news as and when they wish.

It is currently 1:35am (how naughty am I up at this time?) and the main reason I am still up is because I have a 10,000 word dissertation to hand in in 2 weeks time which still needs a lot of work PLUS I have to get everything ready to move out of my house and leave the country for 3 months at the same time PLUS I have to deal with the most unhelpful project supervisor ever AND he is German.... (actually, that's not a bad thing at all but he's just annoying OK?) That is the reality that awaits me in the morning/early afternoon when I drag myself out of bed and that is why I am still up now. If I wasn't so sensible I'd probably be drowning my sorrows. If I was sensible I'd be in bed by now.

Enough rambling. For those of you who aren't lucky enough to know already I am going to America. I am going to Cornell university (in upstate New York, half way between NYC (that's New York City and Toronto (that's in Canada)). Sorry for being patronising if you already know all of this but I wasn't aware that New York was a whole state until quite recently so I figure others may be in the same boat. At Cornell I'll be part of the 'Veterinary Leadership Program', which basically means that I'll be doing a short research project and enhancing my CV all with the aid of a sizeable grant (it's amazing what people will pay you to do!). After that I plan to travel for 3 weeks before returning to England. So there you go, that's why this blog is here, so that I can share my experiences of the states and to let you all know that I'm still alive.

I couldn't get a photo to upload so I'm going to put a random one in to make things a little more colourful...

I love that photo, taken in Tasmania, the mountain in the background is cradle mountain, I've always been annoyed that we didn't have time to get to the top. I like the way I'm so small in the photo, kinda highlights the amazing vista. Anyway I'll stop getting sentimental and maybe go to bed!

Hope everyone who reads this is well.

Stephen xx

Welcome

Hello, this is hopefully going to be my new blog, initially to keep people updated on my trip to America. More to follow!