My great friend SFL (here’s her twitter) is defending her dissertation and earning her PhD in physics today!
I believe that true understanding of what it is like to earn a PhD is difficult without having done it yourself, so you’ll have to take my word that it is difficult, thankless, seemingly-unending, endlessly frustrating and very, very often makes a person doubt themselves. To finally finish is no small endeavour!
So congratulations Florence; you’ve done it! You’ve killed the PhD beast, earned enough experience, and now can level up to ‘Doctor’ 🙂
It was Yossie’s birthday last week (she turned 4!) and yesterday her gift arrived. Here’s a photo of it before it was opened. Can you guess what it is?
Not sure? Here’s a shot of the bits and pieces when opened. I bet you can guess now?
Immediately, Yossie Emi was interested!
Here’s the gift one-third built:
The pieces went together well. Nothing but the best from Armakat!
That piece is rope was an immediate hit with Yossie Emi. Here’s a shot of the finished product. It’s over seven feet tall!
Luckily, the birthday girl took to her new gift immediately:
Especially the topmost perch:
But in the end, it was the little goblin who reigned supreme on Yoss’s new cat tree!
Here’s the rest of the older videos I felt worth sharing. Apologies to AW for revealing his darker side to the world at large (in my defense it was the least embarassing AW video I had…).
As for my hairstyle… I have no defense 🙂
For starters, here is Dad drinking the world’s worst smelling beverage:
Jump backwards in time 8 years to see dad show off his new Gameboy. I wonder if he’s beaten that high score (5087) by now:
Here’s mum in the same year, never thinking this particular video would ever be publicly available worldwide:
We’ll call this next one the segue to the two left to come. Notice mum laughing in the background:
And then there’s this video for which I take no responsibility since it was shot by my brother:
Ok, ok I have to comment. What were we watching Adam? Was that wrestling? And were you referring to the wrestler Raven? It’s interesting how empty your shelves are…
By the way if you’re wondering about that hair, I present the official 0th worst photo of me ever taken, which was a self-portrait taken during that 2000 trip to Australia:
Word’s sort of fail me now, so I shall let my 2000 self do the talking in this last video:
