I’ve been interested in the idea of checking my own facial symmetry for a while so when I found a website that did all the “hard” work for me, I thought I’d give it a go. Then I found out I had to have some silly plug-in to make it work so I did it myself with layers in the GIMP instead.
Not a great photo for checking it out on, but here goes…
This is a photo of me from our trip to Burano, Venice on Christmas Day 2004…
As part of a research project I’m taking part in at the Leeds Dental Institute, I’ve just had my first ever scale and polish. I thought it would be a nice gentle procedure but it feels like I’ve been punched in the mouth about ten times. And at least six of those punches were delivered with a very thin, sharp object poked directly to my gums. Those type of punches hurt the most.
However, we’re having a curry tonight so all will be well once again.
You truly haven’t seen anything in life until you watch a grown man chasing flies around the room with a vacuum cleaner.
I usually just have leftovers or ramen noodles for my lunch these days for the cheap and easiness factors but since we went shopping last night, today I had cream cheese and red jalapenos on a halved, then toasted floury, pavé-style french bread thing. It looked and tasted great. The jalapenos were very sweet, like spicy pickled peppers, and their subtle spice and not so subtle tanginess set off the creamy cream cheese very well indeed. I wish that I had taken a picture to remember it by AND made double the amount.
Today has been a fun day.
This afternoon I managed to combine three of my joint loves: recycling, making a noise and shouting at war criminals — we went to Harrogate to shout at George Bush (Snr) and his comrades at a Business Conference (he was talking, they were fawning), and made some rattles out of tomato/bean cans and out-of-date dried peas to shake while we were there (they were pleasantly noisy, just not as loud as the samba band that was there).
Then after a long, long traffic jam journey back south, we ate nachos and made merry before going for a curry. Mmm, curry on a belly full of nachos.
Then we went on a walk and a play in Heaton Woods in Bradford – John found a rope swing at the top of a scarily steep slope, and later on Gianni and I stepping-stoned across the stream and had to fight the evil bridge keeper (Kev) with our staves in order to be allowed back over to the main side of the woods. (There were many role-playing/MMORPG jokes made re: the staves. Only John and I got them, and I think John was faking to seem l33t.) Funny photos to follow.
A smashing day.
As of 5pm today (I guess), I am officially no longer employed by the University of Leeds. I say officially because due to holiday time owing, I pretty much finished on the 3rd May.
After six years there in one department or another, it’s quite a big move for me to leave – particularly without having another job to go to – but I think it’s the right thing to do. I had been unhappy in my job for a while but had dismissed it in favour of a regular income and the security that working at such as big institution brings. In the end though, the bad bits outweighed the benefits and I didn’t think the other options (such as dropping down to part time or taking a leave of absence) would be enough of a break from it, so I quit.
I’ve decided to have a couple months off as a proper break then I’ll think about what to do next. It’s a quite exciting time but also a bit scary. At the moment though, I feel positive about everything – which is much more than I did a few months ago.
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