Busy Busy Busy

Well the migraine finally went away and things have been pretty good since. I got the conference abstracts that needed doing in and actually have been accepted for both. One of them has the opportunity to publish the paper as an article in the conference proceedings. So I'm pleased about that.

Plus the Persia course is going well, the class seem to be enjoying it and are starting to open up and ask more questions which is nice. Hard to believe that I'm over halfway through with the course.

I'm also managing to make progress on my PhD too, I spent the morning in the library sorting out all those little annoying references and page numbers and suchlike which you tend to miss as you potter along. And I've managed to get more stuff uploaded onto the CD-Rom which, if I do say so myself, is looking very slick and professional.

So, all-in-all, I'm feeling rather pleased with myself.

Pinched Ideas - A Year in Pictures...

Pinched from A Long-Ayelander because it was such a funky idea even if its a little late in the New Year. So here it is, a year in pictures...

January

Back home in the north east, from a day out in Dunstanburgh, look at the sky...

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February

Being silly while ill... lets leave that there...

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March

Enjoying the views (and the weather), easter break in Greece, where I ended up at Acrocorinth

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April

Orchid fair... pretty!

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May

A perfect spring day, Sweetheart Abbey.

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June

Jousting at Linlithgow... scary stuff, one of the jousters dislocated his shoulder in the first session...

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July

Back in the trenches... Pollok excavations. Always fun being an archaeologist on public digs, conversation usually runs along the lines of "You're a PhD Student, that is great, what do you study?", me: "Greek pottery", and then either silence or "why are you digging in Scotland?"

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August

Edradour distillery... I had to include this one, didn't I?

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September

Edinburgh Zoo and hyperactive honey badger... of course...

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October

Undergraduate field trip to Dunnadd, we didn't loose any students... well at least not this time. It has been known...

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November

Castle Campbell, looking all autumny and ever so slightly depressing...

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December

New Year in Ireland, at Glendalough

So Et Voilà! A year in pictures...