1:18am

at which time Gina collapses after spending an entire day finishing a most loathsome paper on the psychometric properties of various scales assessing Instrumental Activities of Daily Living, which has taken 2 weeks of steady work to complete. . .

THUD

Apologies to all of those on my flist whose entries I usually read and have neglected to comment. Or whose emails I've not yet had the time to return.

Journal article

So I was standing waiting for the bus last weekend, exhausted and not thrilled with the various transport options available to me (wait forever in the wind for a bus, climb up and down the stairs and wait on a hot stinky platform for a train, fight for a taxi with all the yuppies in SoHo fresh from an afternoon of shopping). It occured to me that apparition might not be so easy when you are tired. And it might be more difficult to perform if one declines with age.

Also, I wondered if some diseases like those associated with old age might make it difficult to apparate. Dementia, osteoporosis, hypertension, memory loss, kinesthetic system decline, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, etc.

Then it came to me. Someone from St. Mungos should do a study.

Risk factors associated with splinching.

I think my PhD program is starting to get to my brain.