Let's begin at the very beginning...

It's a very good place to start.

Or, how my desk has gone from the above scene of (allegedly) ordered chaos to something that looks a little more like this:



I've spent the past year saying "I can't blog, I have a Dissertation". Now, all of a sudden, I don't have a Dissertation (although I do have to wait until the end of December to hear whether I've passed) so it seems I should have a blog. Hello world. Or, more realistically, hello mother.