Thursday list.

No mind for connecting clauses today, hence list form. ("Hence" might be a connecting clause.)

- It's not nearly as cold as I'd anticipated here; it is, however, raining hard. I wear my red raincoat around school and feel very conspicuous in the mass of navy.
- We are allowed to pick our own titles on the new intranet system. "The", as in "The Erika Unpronounceable-Surname", was actually an option, so I picked that and spent most of the induction class giggling to myself. I am a value-added employee.
- Considering how long last term was, I am surprised to find that this term's Long Leave starts in a month. Excitingly, I'm flying to Trondheim on February 10th and staying until the 14th. Others may question the excitement factor of Trondheim in February, but I do not.
- I keep nervously checking my email to see whether any new references have been submitted to my Oxford application. Eight days to go.
- In the last week I've read two chick-lit books on the theme of infidelity without at all trying (one turned up free with a magazine, and had the distinction of having possibly the most stilted dialogue I've ever read, including that of Ayn Rand). It must be part of the zeitgeist.

People are turning up for the RT meeting. Time to go and be given tasks.