Normal life

I find it hard to believe that I have not yet been living in my flat for two weeks. It feels as if I have been living there for about three weeks or so. Funny how a person's sense of time can be so wonky.

I am a good girl and cook my dinner every night. Unfortunately, I have not been so good with lunches; I have a tendency to buy. But at least I know where in the area food can be bought cheap.

The course is going well. We have had a lot of interesting guest speakers come to speak to us. It is amazing how well-connected the course is. It is a totally different experience to studying at Uni. We rarely had any scientists come to speak to us who were not members of the faculty. In fact, off the top of my head, I can only remember two such circumstances in three years. Yet on the publishing course every week we get one or two guest speakers who are important people in the industry. These people take time out of their busy schedules to come and speak to us students about their experience in and with the industry, and to give us advice. I think it is a very generous thing for them to do. It also helps us as students in that we already feel like a part of the publishing world, and feel that it will be easy for us to find employment after the course finishes. I never had that feeling at all while studying for my BSc: I felt so disconnected from the real world of science.

I am not sure why, but ever since I have moved out of home again I have been making sure to watch the news every night. I was not doing that while I was at my parents' house. But now, every night at 6 o'clock I turn the TV to TV3 and watch 3news and Campbell Live - a programme I never bothered to watch before. How odd.