Hi,

I've finished the practical work on my project now. There's one more photograph that I'd like to get but it's not essential and my supervisor is away next week so I'll try to get it the week after but if I don't it doesn't really matter. In the mean time, I'm adding my results to my write-up (at the moment I'm drawing lots of little diagrams showing how the carbon marks moved). I haven't got an essay to write this weekend so I'm going to get as much as I can done while I'm free from other work. I'm also going to a birthday party tonight and another one tomorrow night.

This week was the last week when I have two "themes" (i.e. twice as many lectures as normal). And next week is one of the themes that I'm not doing in detail so I will have less reading to do as well. So I should have time to work on my project and, if I get a title soon, to start my final essay of the term. I've also got a seminar that I have to prepare a short presentation of a paper for. Our seminars tend to be either min-lectures or smaller groups where we present papers in pairs. Yesterday I had one of the mini-lecture type, which actually turned out to be more like a big lecture crammed into a small room. The seminar was given by a neuroscientist called Tim Bliss, who discovered a type of change in the brain called Long Term Potentiation (LTP) about 30 years ago. Since LTP is one of the most important things that keeps coming up in our course a lot of people went to the seminar and it was pretty overcrowded. Generally, though seminar numbers are limited by the online-booking system to about 12 people.

Back to work now before the birthday fun!