Omens?

Just had one of the stranger dreams I've had in a while.

I think I must have still been at university, because I was working on my final-year project - well, after a fashion. In the real world, I looked at calystegines, which are "polyhydroxyl nortropane alkaloids"; We were looking at their potential as glycosidase inhibitors, I think (it's been a while since I did it). In the dream world, I was looking at... well, I'm not sure. We first had to crack some mathematical code, and once we'd done that we'd use that code in lab-work, which I think had some sort of investigatory theme, looking at the genetics of some very rare Spanish bird. My tutor (who looked suspiciously like the current consultant on my real-life ward) was getting very excited about it and saying how the work would help preserve the species, etc etc.

...aaaand I'd basically forgotten about it for six months, leaving me three months to do all the research and finish it, and I was panicking about it a bit, trying to work out what I was going to say to my tutor. I hadn't done any actual lab work at all; essentially all I'd done was some of the group work with the other people I was working with. Which involved drawing a circle, drawing a series of equidistant points around the diameter of the circle, and then joining them up with straight lines, and trying to work out how many straight lines were needed to join all the dots up.

I have no idea how this was supposed to help the rare bird (which looked rather like a thrush with an orange breast, or an overgrown robin). ¬_¬

It didn't help matters that in the non-university world, there was some kind of world-destroying threat brewing - possibly extra-terrestrial, I'm not sure - and all the richest nations in the world were trying to counter it. They were trying to work out how to destroy the threat, as they couldn't use modern fighter aircraft or missiles because it could "see" them and would destroy them. So instead, they gathered together as many working WWII aircraft as they could find, and were going to use them to drop a series of nuclear devices on "the threat" because it wouldn't be able to see them.

The rest is muddled and I can't really remember a lot, apart from some very strange artwork, and a load of women from a (very very small, there was only about 30 of them there) "Arts and Crafts" convention leaping up and down from behind a very low wall. :P

I've had a couple of dreams already about "end of the world" scenarios, recently. I hope it's not an omen. :P

Another stabbing on Ravenswood

Until now, I never really thought this was TOO bad a neighbourhood to live in. It's not a cute, quaint little village in the countryside, certainly, but I wouldn't class it as a ghetto, but... there's been another stabbing.

It was only within the last... 6 months, at a guess?... that a girl at a party was stabbed in the neck for her mobile phone, close to here. Today, I found out there was another, this morning. O_o

I just wandered down Lidl to buy a few bits and pieces for work on Monday (as I'm on-call), and I noticed that there was a police car parked outside one of the houses in the old airport building, next but one to Spitfires' Nursery. My first thought was "how did he get THERE?" because the whole green is pretty much surrounded by bollards to stop cars getting on there, but there's a proper police estate car parked on the grass.

As I got closer, I noticed the police tape, all the way around the garden. Yikes. Maybe it was a burglary? Around the back of the terrace, though, on the "road" side, there's another police car and more police tape. That's a lot of police for "just" a burglary.

So, I come home and think, I'll see if the EADT has anything to say about it. I'm not holding out a lot of hope, at this point, because the East Anglian is a bit hit-and-miss. Something that well it happened on the road but maybe was important that you want to find out about? No joy, they've not covered it. The hedge fire that the fire brigade were called out at 10pm for, and it took a bucket of water to put out, and they were back at base by 10:32? They're all over that, man.

Today, for once, they came up trumps:
Ravenswood: Police granted custody extension for five arrested in connection with stabbing
Saturday, April 7, 2012 11:37 AM
POLICE have been granted an extension of the custody time limit for the five people arrested in connection with a stabbing.
The arrests came after officers were called to a disturbance at a house in Witney Close, Ravenswood, Ipswich, near to the parade of shops, just before 5am. They discovered a man had sustained serious stab wounds to his neck and chest. He was treated by paramedics who worked to stabilise his condition before taking him to Ipswich Hospital.
Five people - two 23-year-old women, a 20-year-old man, a 21-year-old man and a 24-year-old woman, all from Ipswich - were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder at the scene. They remain at Martlesham Police Investigation Centre, where police can continue to question them until about 7pm tonight.

Hope the guy is all right. :(