Wow - look at all that I've
accomplished!
Sunday 28 May 2006
Yeah, as if. I just thought it would
be nice one day NOT to have a title such as 'oh no, look how little
I've done in the past X weeks'. I've only got myself to blame,
after all. But it's funny that over a month ago I thought I'd be
updating this page much more often, and yet it's only now that I
load it up (and only because I'm waiting for Silvia to finish up so
we can go to the pub!). But I assume I did do something over the
past month, after all. Now what was it? I
did start a
paper (that has to be submitted by July 1st), and I did some work
on the impending transition of the journal I shall be editor of,
and I analysed some data, and I pulled out a bit of hedge in the
garden, and laid some turf, and went to the 40th National Karate
Championships where I
won watched the main event with Silvia
and the kids (they thought it was fantastic... and I have to say I
did enjoy it... though one of the highlights was using the new
satnav to get us there... quite amazing!). And then it was Silvia's
birthday (bought her a bike), and then it was mine, and then it was
today, and we went for a 2 hour bike ride, and that bit of my body
that would have sat on a comfortable saddle if I had one is sore as
hell! Other highlights included starting to go to the 'senior'
Karate sessions on Thursday evenings (so that means that on a good
week I'm doing just under 3.5 hours training), which was a
fabulous, if strenuous, experience. And I must have had too much
time on my hands as I also spent more time than necessary working
on our lab's new logo, which will be something like:

The eye
happens to be my son Sam's eye. For those that may read this and
wonder what his eye is doing there, my research focuses in part on
how language can direct visual attention and, consequently, eye
movements. Actually, the logo looks better when vertical (scroll
down on this
page to see it). And I guess the accompanying slogan
ought to be 'putting the eye in psycholinguistics' (you have to say
it out loud to realize that there already
was an
eye in psycholinguistics...). Childish, I know. But I've never
denied that streak in me...