Vegas baby!

I started to post some pictures on Saturday, but ran into some technical difficulties. Not Blogger this time actually though. I have this great video of the Elvis impersonator, but apparently it's too big of a file for YouTube to handle, booooo :( On Thursday night, a bunch of us went to a Las Vegas Shownight at "The Floating Chinese"-- literally a Chinese restaurant built on top of the river in Canary Wharf. The MC and the guy who did The Groovy Wonder Years, dressed in a blue crushed velvet Austin Powers suit with Austin Powers glasses, were both pretty forgettable. However, the ABBA Girls had everyone up and dancing, singing at the top of our lungs. They were the best part of the show, although Elvis wasn't too bad himself...the trouble being, when you've got a group of girls out together, the slow ballads just aren't as fun as "Viva! Las Vegas" or "You Ain't Nothin' But a Hound Dog" for example. Technically we were there to celebrate Laura selling her old flat and to give her a work hen do (she's getting married in May), as well as a leaving do for the physio who has now rotated. However, I had just pulled together in two days a major presentation on cognition which I had given that afternoon, as well as being prepared for my supervision and appraisal afterwards. So I was celebrating too! My appraisal continued on into Friday, and I had another major presentation to give today. Both went very well ;) But I'm looking forward to end of this week when all the major work should be done.

Well, that, and I'll be in Manchester for St. Patty's!!!

Not to brag---okay, to brag--- it's been 15 degrees (65 degrees F) and sunny here for the past two days, and is supposed to be 60 and partly cloudy for the rest of the week. Although it felt great, it's very disconcerting (still), as this is normally weather we wouldn't see until May-ish. Laura has a birthday coming up next week, and says she can't remember a birthday celebration where she wasn't wearing scarf, hat and gloves.

Interesting Factoid: Had to do a lot of research on the two presentations I have now given, which included research on attention. Your attention span, as you probably all know or could guess, is the amount of time you are able to concentrate on something. But did you know, the nerve pathways responsible for attention span don't fully mature until the early 30s in humans? (For those of you who know what I'm talking about, these specific nerve pathways aren't fully myelinated until our early 30s. Myelinated nerves pass signals along at a hugely increased speed.) AND, for males, it can be even later!! Hmmm, very interesting. I'll let you draw your own conclusions ;)