Grey snot

Hello world,

I've just moved to London to start a course on taxonomy, the area of biology that deals with naming and classifying things. I'm hoping it will suit my joint interests of organising things and dinosaurs.

It's been a long couple of days; I moved into my new rented room on Sunday afternoon, then Monday was a 13-hour day of going through induction and shopping for things I'd forgotten. But I've been impressed with the efficiency of the Tube so far, and walking through central London is entertaining, if a bit surreal.

I'm going to try and use this blog to keep a record of what's sure to be a strange twelve months. It's my first permanent move away from home (the holidays during my undergraduate degree made me feel like a part-timer) and hopefully the first major step towards Dream Job. I'd love to be a natural history curator. I just hope museums will still have paid staff by the time I qualify!

Final thought: since moving down I've produced grey snot. There's no air pollution like London air pollution.