My boyfriend is a massive geek, and I organise Cambridge Geek Nights, so when I saw the Codeyear idea from Codecademy, it looked ideal. They offer the chance to learn to code over the course of a year, with lessons e-mailed to you each week to complete online.
Now, I have a bit of a reputation [...]
I haven’t been writing on this blog much since we found a medication combination which keeps my depression mostly under control. I’ve now been basically stable for over 3 years on a cocktail of Lithium, Lamotrigine and Buproprion.
It’s quite astounding that the drugs have worked for this long – before this, the longest that one [...]
Various things recently have started me thinking about aging. In the last few months, my Grandmother has died of breast cancer, and I have had to have my cat Pepper put to sleep, again probably due to cancer. They were both what you would describe as old – 78 and approx 14 respectively, which doesn’t [...]
I just bought a house
Thankfully the stress seems to have all melted away now that we’ve exchanged, and I’m just excited about moving in (25th September). So now I am starting on the fun of planning the curtains, the carpets, which colour paint, furniture etc… I just hope I don’t drive anybody mad in [...]
On Wednesday 10th June I attended the first Cambridge Geek Night. No, I know I’m not a geek, but David was one of the organisers, so I went along to support him. I was also hoping to meet some new people and maybe manage to partially immerse myself in this “geek world” he is a [...]
For some time now I have enjoyed making earrings from beads and wire. As well as making things I enjoy wearing, I find it somehow therapeutic to be creating something tangible. Initially, I just made items for myself, then for my friends and family. Recently someone suggested I try selling them to cover my costs [...]
As it says, just a quick update for those of you who actually know me, and use this as a way to keep a vague eye on my comings and goings.
Buproprion is still wonderful, although side effects are a bit of a pain (the timing of the second dose most days either leaves me unable [...]