Today is a remarkable day. This is not just because the sun is shining on London and I've found the exact spot where I used to work on my dissertation to write this post. It isn't purely because the Olympics is making me want to cry with its beautiful stories of incredible dedication and success against the odds, or even just because I am sneakily eating a greasy blueberry muffin in a library and just saw someone wearing what appeared to be a sextant hair clip (probably just my nautical eye for detail, ha). It is, in fact, because I am a different…