Bad news monkeyophiles. I had to run off from my last afternoon of work, trying not to cry (it was quite emotional really) to go to an optician's appointment.

It is a sad sad day. I haven't been in two years and lately though that I've been squinting more whilst driving....... I'm BLIND. That'll be why I nearly ran over those kids playing traffic chicken in the parking lot and in fact, Cypriots are amazing drivers, I've just been confusing their cars for the parked ones.

Ok, not quite that bad but still pretty bad. Enough to get new glasses (hurrah! I can look like my inner self- I wear some now when I'm not using suction powered lenses but they're not serious enough).. I've gone down a whole point and a bloody half in one eye!! No wonder I couldn't see a thing. The other eye's ok. Not quite disabled yet. And annoyingly, not enough to have to have a doggie.

Come to think of it, marmaduke wouldn't like a dog.

Ah.. bad times. The only good news being that I chose my thesis topic afte rmuch deliberation. 1st choice- long span roofing solution for historic structures (a la british museum type jobbie) and next 2 choices to do with FRP and their effect on shear in concrete which, as I am Geek numero uno, interests me more than you'd like to know. One of my favourite moments in my career at uni was making my own concrete using BRE specified design. It were fun and then I crushed it which were funner. All I need to do now is to find a partner to work with. Trouble being, the boys are deeply suspicious of us lady engineers. One particularly loathesome wonkface actually snatched the calculator out of my hand and said "Now now, leave the proper calculations to the men, you can make the report look pretty afterwards if you like" "No I f*king don't like you miserable little fartmouth, I'll do the calculations and you can sit there and plait your ginger facial pubes..." I said in my head.... My irish matey who's very pretty and otherwise intelligent thinks he's a hoot but then her type is what I'd write off as a wonker so maybe he's perfect for her.

Ah I have digressed. Anyway, with my new glasses I can look intellylekchual and kleva and maybe the boyz will let me play with their sums.

Night night xx