What's in your mind?

It's been fifty days since I started DPhil. For now I find it's not too difficult to fit my lifestyle into DPhil course. A couple of elements of my characteristic tend to drive me to work hard with enthusiasm, and I often enjoy some achievements usually coming from experiments and literature review. Apparently, I'm quite busy with ongoing experiemental works, and it seems this project will get bigger and bigger as I make it successful. My little concern is that, from time to time, I wish I could have more time to read journal articles to be more balanced between physical and brain work.

So, what's in my mind other than work, work and work?

First of all, I've made my decision 70% for skiing trip to Chamonix. I should've booked airplane and hotel during the last weekend, but my Saturday was messed up due to overdrinking at Wine & Cheese. I'm not going to disclose why I had to have beer after several glasses of wine due to his privacy, but talking about international politics was terrible idea. I must sort out booking by coming-up weekend. I believe it won't be too difficult to figure it out as I'm thinking of the same route and the same hotel, but it might be troublesome since Christmas is the busiest time of the year (probably). So, I better rush it!

Secondly, my laptop has never been the external threat to me while I'm living in the UK. Probably this is because I'm always prepared for any issue coming from softwares, and I don't much carry my laptop, so there shouldn't be a big mechanical issue. BUT, in the end, it seems to me that mechanical problem occured to my laptop. FAN ERROR. Still I don't really understand why this is happening to my laptop at this moment. The critical limit of life span of my previous laptop was a noisy fan. Given that nowadays nothing seems to be impossible when it comes to portable devices, it's quite nonsense that the first maintanance which PC requires is exchanging fan. Now I have to make quite difficult decision because this country hasn't earned much credit from me when it comes to service work, but at the same time, it's quite scary to keep using laptop having fan problem. I'll probably pop in PC shop in Oxford.

Thirdly, my first term is quite chaos. Now, it's week 7, so only about ten days left until Christmas vacation. Considering the fact that there is going to be almost no social activity organized by the college MCR during vacation, I might be better try more activities. Now I'm obliged to sign up for Christmas dinner because of my best college friend (?), and I'm also supposed to sign up for 2nd hall for day after tomorrow (Eventually!). Probably that's it. And we'll see I will be able to proceed research as much as I wish to do during off-term!