![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Rufus/Bank
25 October 2006 23:32Rufus came from Cambridge and spent much of the day around our lab talking to people (not me, as what I'm doing is sort of boring), and gave his talk. Which was pitched at a fairly basic level with lots of reiteration so the undergraduates could follow, which was nice I suppose. He had to rescue my brain from badly taught calculus a few times, so he is definitely good at the whole explaining thing.
The talk was interesting as well! It was about menopause and the evolutionary significance of it, extending it beyond the grandmother hypothesis and adding some new theories. It was largely speculative, with not a lot of experimental backing to it, but the arguments seemed good to me. Debated it with one of the other PhD students later in the day and yes, she's was right that his skipping over the modelling process and equations meant we missed some of the reasoning. I'm sure with some experimental backing it will make a good paper, in any case!
This morning I finally got to Bethnal Green when the bank deigned to open, and sorted out my change of address. With a disproportionate amount of faff. The cashier didn't have a clue about my ISA, however, so suggested I phoned the number on the statement. It's 0845 (I think that's National Rate, no?), so will be fairly pricey from my mobile. I still resent the idea of having to pay money to keep control of my money!
Tomorrow I'm meant to Aikido, but I just hope I have more energy then than I do now. I am incredibly unbelievably tired. Must not forget to iron gi tomorrow...
The talk was interesting as well! It was about menopause and the evolutionary significance of it, extending it beyond the grandmother hypothesis and adding some new theories. It was largely speculative, with not a lot of experimental backing to it, but the arguments seemed good to me. Debated it with one of the other PhD students later in the day and yes, she's was right that his skipping over the modelling process and equations meant we missed some of the reasoning. I'm sure with some experimental backing it will make a good paper, in any case!
This morning I finally got to Bethnal Green when the bank deigned to open, and sorted out my change of address. With a disproportionate amount of faff. The cashier didn't have a clue about my ISA, however, so suggested I phoned the number on the statement. It's 0845 (I think that's National Rate, no?), so will be fairly pricey from my mobile. I still resent the idea of having to pay money to keep control of my money!
Tomorrow I'm meant to Aikido, but I just hope I have more energy then than I do now. I am incredibly unbelievably tired. Must not forget to iron gi tomorrow...
