the heretic genetic algorithm

I cycled into work this morning. About 8 miles, and about 40 minutes of cycling. Which isn't too shoddy, considering I haven't cycled for a while. And in the realms of TMI, it is clearing out my lungs. post-quit.

Luckily, I remembered to bring my toiletries to shower when I arrived at work. Otherwise, I would have had to be the recipient of toiletry-related alms.

We got a notice at work that we might like to bring in any unwanted gifts of shower gel or shampoo so that staff who'd forgotten their own washing products would have something to use.

So I guess as well as having a subsidised gym, some of our well-off middle-class staff would also like free soap. Maybe staff should bring in some spare soap, and leave it at work for showering. Or, stroll across the subsidised shop on campus and buy some fricking soap.

Hrmph.

And talking of things that make me go hrmph, Mothers' Day is looming. My mother, as usual, spent the past year being a drunken pain in the backside, but I'll still get her something. Mainly because if I don't, she'll phone up her family and complain, and they'll all go on about how ungrateful I am.

*sigh*

What I can do, in absence of an actual useful mother, is pretend I've got an actual useful mother, and buy her a big soppy card. It's the only way I can deal with these things at all rationally.

I never really use filters any more. Sorry to those people who just started getting blasted with my brain's inner workings. I just noticed that I can't be bothered. There's nothing there that I ashamed of enough to hide.

Anyhoo. In other news, I cleared the massive stack of paperwork in my kitchen. I just took my tax folder downstairs to the paper, and loaded all the bills into the folder. Much easier.

I have a cold. Snuffle. I've also taken up running, which is way cooler than I anticipated, in anticipation of the Race for Life.

Plug:---> http://www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/hannahwood

I went to see the Proposition yesterday. 0ct0pus has reviewed it well here:

http://0ct0pus.livejournal.com/48696.html

Just to add that I really enjoyed it. A film made for me - sparse of word, beautiful, grim and heroic.

Another busy week. I guess I get a kick out of being busy right now. Got loads done for my WIE course, but still have to do an elevator pitch (*gulp*) and a SWOT analysis, which I'll probably get done tonight. Thought of a name for my business though:

TERRAPY

*snigger*

OK, so tomorrow I have a to-do list:

• Polyfilla round door
  
• Tidy up house plants
  
• Mail letters
  
• Pay in cheques
  
• Swim
  
• Hoover kitchen and lounge, mop kitchen floor
  
• Unload dishwasher
  
• Clear laundry rack
  
• Plant salads
  
• Get new wing mirror (*grmbl*)
  
• Put fencing photos onto CD
  
• Charge camera and phone
  
• WIE stuff
  
• Look up buses
  
• Tidy room muddles
  

Last week's eating and exercise went well, apart from some snacking at the weekend. This week, I'm just going to try and get a swim in every day to boost my Channel Challenge score. Tuesday I'm off to the Frieda Kahlo exhibition with 0ct0pus.

Also wrote down a bunch of stuff that I needed to do around the house, which at least makes me feel theoretically in control of things :P