Swims and Rounds (swings and roundabouts)

So after a brilliant anniversary weekend with the wonderful Stephanie (@yougrowwilds), I'm waiting.  But the wait has been interesting and not entirely without its highpoints.

The weekend was really good, we went out to dinner and saw the fireworks on Saturday, and on Sunday we went to the Roman Baths, in Bath.  A more interesting museum I have never found!  It really is amazing being able to go just a few meters beneath the city streets and find the unspoilt remains of the preserved Roman architecture.  You can even see the markings on the stone, almost as clear as they would have been at the time.   The image below inspired me in two ways:

1. If that writing, some scribbles in a bit of stone, can last the thousands of years it has been buried under the ground, then we can last a couple of years together whilst living apart.
2. To be able to read such a fantastically preserved thing would be amazing, so I am now trying to teach myself Latin.  The ultimate goal is to be able to read the book I bought.  "Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis", however right now, all I can manage is "Ego non sum et agricole et nauta".  But I can swim, and plant flowers...

The other good thing happening this week is Battlefield 3.  I am now fully internet enabled, and playing the most graphically stunning game I have ever encountered.  This game really puts CoD: Modern Warfare 3 to shame.

Although, I am about as useful in one of the aircraft as a fart in a lift!  Plenty of time to learn though.

All change...

So a lot has happened since i lost interest in this blog and essentially gave up on it.  I moved to Bath, a really nice place, but not by choice, and I am continuing the 3rd year of my Ph.D. here.  Okay, so change isn't in itself a bad thing, even i know that.  But change can be difficult, especially when you are moving away from all you have ever known or cared about, to the opposite end of the nation, 370 miles away from the significant people in your life.  And boy, there are some significant people left behind.  I no longer live with my best friend, Cameron.  I no longer get to spend my free time with the love of my life, Steph, and I am now essentially cooped up in a room less than half the size of my previous one, at an added cost, with a lack of a reliable internet connection.

That's not the half of it though.  After 3 short months down here, i already had to retreat home for two months due to an un-scheduled hospital visit.  Bath's RUH is a good hospital, but their games of "guess the illness" were not exactly my idea of fun.

Essentially after returning home for some outpatient investigation, i have been diagnosed with Primary Biliary Cirrhosis with a few associated complications.  So I'm off the booze and on the drugs for the rest of my life.  A small price to pay...

Internet is installed on the 8th however, so expect more rants on here....now that I have plenty to rant about....