Um. Wow.

I haven't mentioned my degree result, because I'm kinda shy about it, although people ask sometimes. I'm mentioning it now because I've just had an email from my dissertation supervisor telling me that he's nominated me for an award which is given to the best dissertation in the school written by a student who gets a first overall. He's at pains to point out that the competition will be stiff - I'll be up against the best dissertations in each of the other fields the school offers (I think there are five in total, although it's a bit hard to tell) but if I win there's a medium-sized cash prize, and even the nomination is a nice thing to be able to put on any theoretical graduate study applications I might be thinking of making!

I'm not less shy about it, by the way, I'm just, well, a bit gob-smacked. Telling the news makes it more real :-)

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...the first is 'happy', which is the reason I used it in my last post. The second is 'swimming', which is why I am using it in this one. Although, as you might have noticed, 'swimming' automatically equals 'happy' if you're me :-)

I've just returned from another river swim (with pepper_field), my third in a week, and I've another planned for tomorrow. I don't like the hot weather at all, but the prospect of cool river water in the evening makes the heat of the day slightly more bearable :-)

Thank you all for the kind words about my nomination. It still hasn't quite sunk in!