Archive for May, 2004

Discipline

Friday, May 28th, 2004

Staying motivated and disciplined while you’re doing a PhD is probably the hardest part of the whole process. All of my friends are constantly complaining about how they should be doing work etc…
But, recently (i.e. today) several of us have been trying really hard to do some actual work. I had to make myself [...]

mmmm…. winter

Wednesday, May 26th, 2004

Winter seems to have settled over Townsville. This means endless blue skies and nice 25deg weather. This should last until some time in September when the unsettled weather returns.
I celebrated this atmospheric stability with a little relaxing outing down to the Strand this morning. It really is nice when there is just a puff of [...]

Funny things

Thursday, May 20th, 2004

Several funny things have happened to Zoe and I recently.
The first, which is more gross than funny, is that at Baseball on Saturday I received a nasty graze on my left knee whilst sliding into second base. It was bloody and sore and looked like the surface of a chicken breast when I first did [...]

This is Townsville calling…

Monday, May 17th, 2004

Well Ruslana is now our new hero.

Barras Before Breakfast

Wednesday, May 12th, 2004

It’s pretty bad living away from the surf, but there are probably quite few places where you can get up and go fishing for Barramundi before breakfast.
I took my new rod out to Pallarenda this morning for a few casts. There’s a little creek there that runs past a few rocks on the falling tide. [...]