To get the bad out of the way first. The door on my Landie has been damaged by a thief trying to get in.
It shows the thief's ignorance of the vehicle because there is no latch on the inside which will release the door, once locked from outside, and once in the thief would have had to remove the clutch claw and given the problems I have had starting would not be that amenable to hot wiring.Everything inside is also locked down still, it was a major inconvenience and cost which has meant my landie being stored somewhere safe until I can get a replacement for the damaged door, not the best time of year for this to happen and I hope I can get it sorted in time for my annual excursion over Christmas, which has to be a little in doubt now.
The good news is that I have had my paper accepted for the NAS International Conference in September though I am only a sideshow and will have to compete for attention with keynote speakers like Stephen Shore and our very own Rita Jordan from the Uni of Brum.
Still it will be a change from the obligatory Self Narrating Zoo spot as I shall be presenting as a bona fide researcher, my autisticity (now there's a new word for you) being effectively irrelevant and my elasticity paramount.
Well that's not bad considering my research is only one term in and there is nothing to report yet.
But there will be as this is part of my mission to put us at the centre of it all.
3 comments:
Glad to hear about the academic success! That is fabulous. (I'm a wee bit jealous.)
Congrats on getting the paper accepted, and sorry about the "Landie".
In the states we have places called "junk yards" where you can get second hand parts off of otherwise non-functional vehicles for a reasonable price. Do you have something like that there by you?
Joe
Autisticity - I like it!
Yes well done for the NAS accepting your paper.
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