As you’ll have realized from my post last week, I will be competing in I’m A Scientist, Get Me Out Of Here in in a couple of weeks’ time.  I’m going to be attempting to capture the event from my perspective through a series of rather shorter, more informal blogs than I usually post – starting here.  It seems a great way to capture the highs and lows as they happen, as well as being considerably less time-intensive than writing the sorts of pieces I usually post – and believe me, less time-intensive is exactly what I need at the moment – as you’ll see below!

So today I got access to my profile page on the I’m A Scientist website (you’ll be able to see it in a few days), and faced the trauma of answering questions like “Who is your favourite singer or band?” and “If you had three wishes for yourself, what would they be?”

But the most difficult question (barring “Tell Us A Joke”) was “How would you describe yourself, in three words?”

My answer: “overworked, underpaid, happy.”

But then I asked my family what they thought I should have answered.  And got:

“Grumpy, tired, occard*”!

Ah.

Think I might have some re-prioritizing to do!

*”awkward” for non-English speakers 🙂