This is a friendly welcome, pleased to see you and have a cuppa.

A lot has happened so it's probably time I updated my page.

I'm currently studying Computing at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, just finished the third year of my degree. The results are out, and having resat exams and resubmitted coursework I've officially passed. So technically, I have a BSc in Computing & Information

I need to work out what I'm dong next. Moving onto Honours year means more choices. Having made my selections, what elective will I be given, what will my Honours project be? What they allow me do for a project will affect the amount of programming I need to do. The idea of keeping on top of the programming last year fell at the first hurdle, two new subjects requiring graphic design and SQL languages ruined that plan.

The inspiration for going back to uni was the field of work in which I was employed, information and data manipulation, spreadsheets, databases and stuff; so I thought I may as well do the degree I didn't do years ago in a subject in which I have some background and interest. That seems so long ago, and so tame compared to what I'm studying now.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable. - Mark Twain

I took this opportunity to go to university because my other half got a job in Aberdeen. There is some inter-university rivalry - he works and studies at The University of Aberdeen, I'm at The Robert Gordon University, just around the corner.

I love number and logic problems. Also science with a leaning toward biology and medicine - Trivial Pursuit Science and Nature lover. This has been fuelled by long-term contact with the medical profession while trying to sort out my epilepsy. With working our way through the British National Formulary and after major medical intervention we seem to be making progress at last.

Love music, medieval and classical through to most modern stuff. This all started when I joined my local church choir and continued with lucky highlights such as travelling with the BBC to Turkey and Israel.

Last year my university started a music group, the RGU:Singers. With the help of a number of musical directors and the support of a core group we've managed to keep it going this long. There's Homecoming happening this year in Scotland so we'll be getting some gigs through the Summer months. Paid gigs - real money. These could be quite involved concerts so we're learning loads of new stuff, traditional Scottish folk melodies, popular things like Simon & Garfunkel, ABBA, Grease, and some clasical pieces from Handel and Bach. Not bad for a group most of whom don't read music.

We've just been hit with the formal stuff of budgets, committees and procedures. Our finances might be lost if we can't convince the Student Association of the difference between budgetary income and fundraising monies.

The best thing about this group - although it requires commitment and work, it doesn't require the commitment of Sunday mornings - just the organisation skills of making sure that tea is ready to go as soon as I step through the door of an evenig by making sure it's prepared the previous night.

	I'm a Thursdayite!
	Thursday - Always has been called Thursday, always will be called Thursday

I love reading and rarely have fewer than two books on the go at one time I want to ready Homer's Odyssey (but haven't got round to that yet, it's next to the bed waiting to be opened) so in the meantime I'm reading Pooh and the Philosophers, and also Red Dwarf Better than Life.

Taking an idea from another researcher, I'm keeping a list of the books I've read recently:

• Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse - Paul Carter. Funny and interesting stories of life in the oil industry.
• Gridlock - Ben Elton. A not implausable view of traffic in the future.
• Mind's Eye - Paul McAuley. The psychological use of heiroglyphics during conflict.
• The Liar - Stephen Fry. As one researcher referred to it, spy intrigue and Cambridge foppery.
• The Lost Continent - Bill Bryson. About his journey back to Des Moines, and finding out that the United States that he left years before doesn't exist any more.
• Freakonomics - Stephen Dubner and Steve Levitt. A look at the way that badly presented information can blind us to what's really going on. A great laugh.
• As Used on the Famous Nelson Mandela - Mark Thomas. An investigation into the arms and torture trades.
• Fear Nothing - Dean Koontz. The strange goings-on in a small California town.

A book is a gift you can open again and again. - Garrison Keillor

I'm also known as india, a submissive to my Dom and have been for many years now. This was a lifestyle thing that crept up on me but a long-term role in which I'm comfortable. It's pretty much taken over my life, so it's no longer strange or jarring hearing "india" called and having to think "ah, that's me." Also, it's becoming second nature to speak to my Dom as Master rather than by his first name, without having to remember that that's who he is. It can be strange in public though, so he calls my attention with "pet," while I tend skip a name or title entirely. Bad of me I know, but that's just the way we are.

Adopted PetLepton

I'm interested in body art and have acquired a dozen or so piercings over the years; all very discreet and great fun to fiddle with, tongue rings come in for most playing with while I'm concentrating. They were all done by my other half (but that's fair since I did most of his). Tattoos look great but I'd never be able to pick one design, so I would settle for temporary henna ones. I do admire tattoos that others have, they can look stylish and very attractive.

As part of an on-going joke, my partner reckons I should get a fresh piercing for each year of university I achieve. So far it's been a couple in my ear. Where I'd put a third and fourth I don't know, perhaps we'll have to negotiate on that.

Your body is a temple, but how long can you live in the same house before you redecorate? - Unknown.

After a great deal of work but some inspiration from my Dom, my 42ism:

(-5 * 1)+(5 * 7) + 4 + 8 = 42

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