Archive for February, 2006

Good for what ‘ale’s ya!

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

I’m sitting here drinking a Speight’s Gold Medal Ale and feeling pretty ok. I spent today rewriting the first third of a paper dealing with climate change and the freshwater fishes of the Wet Tropics. At first I wasn’t really into it, but over the course of the last 10 hours I’ve found that it [...]

I’m passionate too

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

I can see by the comments lately that everyone else was as exicted by Tom’s snail throwing as I (and he?) was. So lets talk about something else.
It’s the first week of uni - horray! that’s horray for several reasons.. I’m kinda sick of work (sorry CommDevt people, it’s not you, it’s me), I’ve got [...]

What’ll they think of next?

Monday, February 20th, 2006

I’ve been catching up on some light science reading over at the abc, getting back into the swing of things to complete my own seminal work (my due date is now 31 July, right in time for IMDII), and I’ve been reading some crazy stuff.

Boys Don’t Cry

Saturday, February 18th, 2006

Without going too far out on a limb, I’m fairly certain we’ve established that I’m a pretty passionate person - enthusiastic, frustrated by social injustices, honest (perhaps painfully so), quick to anger if riled - and so on. Recently I’ve had enough time to take a good hard look at myself. ‘Skinny’ was my main [...]

Update on broken leg

Friday, February 17th, 2006

It still hurts.
Note: the words “dry” and “eyes” have been added to the comment blacklist. And, no, saying, “towel down your optical region”, or something similar won’t be funny.