dolorosa_12 | *waves sleepily*

I really fell off the side of the world for a while — two weeks without posting or checking Dreamwidth is a long time for me! I'm slowly trying to catch up with posts from my circle, but I will probably have to let everything go by without comments. I have read your posts, though!

This term has really knocked me out. It feels as if every week when my colleague (who does the same job as me) and I have our catch up meeting, we say, 'well, things are hectic now, but they should calm down by next week.' And we've been saying this every week since September! There was one day when five people simultaneously asked me to do systematic review literature searches for five different research projects, and I just laughed out loud at the absurdity. It's nice to be valued and popular, but it is a lot of work!

In less exhausting news, Matthias and I went down to Devon last weekend for the baptism of

cait.de.roiste and

DrLRoach's two daughters. The whole thing was a lot of fun — we caught up with various friends, the baptism service was adorable (as with anything that involves small children, chaos ensued — the older daughter spent the whole time running around the church with a helium balloon, and the younger daughter spent the whole time eating the order of service), and everything was lovely and autumnal.

I'll finish the post with links to a couple of things that I've enjoyed recently:

Over on Tor.com, an actual San Francisco bus driver has thoughts on Shang Chi's bus fight scene

A behind-the-scenes featurette about the making of Cirque du Soleil's revived Alegría show. This is on Facebook but you can watch without a login.

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A colleague recently asked what train line I take and when I confirmed the line he went, "I've seen you!" I have never seen him. Anyway, he now takes the opportunity to tell me Train Stories.

A part of me is thinking those leaves would be great in compost. So, I guess this is ageing.

I love the sound of Train Stories!

A part of me is thinking those leaves would be great in compost. So, I guess this is ageing.

Ha! Your comment has reminded me that I need to add all the fallen leaves in our garden to the compost bin.