Things I have learned in Biology Honours so far:

1. Murphy's law also applies to scientific endeavour. Who knew?

2. Academics are beyond busy. Far, far beyond.

3. Biology academics/grad students don't wash their stuff up normally... they just rinse everything briefly under boiling water. Like wtf man? Hot water don't get oils and fats off real good.

phone: Ring! Ring!
Tim: Hello?
phone: [computerised woman's voice] I'm sorry, that is an incorrect response.
Tim: ...

http://pandagon.net/index.php/site/comments/gradations_of_an_anti_choice_wingnut/

'Gradations on the scale of Anti-Choice to Pro-Choice - now with 20% less foetus!'

I got into honours, doo-dah, doo-dah,
I got into ho-on-ours, oh the doo-dah-day.

"The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see."

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Put a star next to things you are ashamed to have read.
5) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

So, I've submitted my honours application. All I can do now is wait. Wish me luck. I really need it.

Is it normal to feel kinda lost when you finish Uni? I do. Everyone keeps asking if I am interviewing yet. Besides the whole research aspiration thing, I really wanna kind of sit on my arse for a bit and get into some hard-core Richard and Judy. :) Actually atm I just wanna party, but everyone is busy with work or still has exams. Either way I will not be looking for a 'real job' for some time, at least until I have finished all the art, crochet and screenprinting I have backed up.

Guilty pleasure of the week: Miley Cyrus' new song, "Can't Wait to See You Again". I LOVE IT. Pop can be so good when it's done right.

So. It all started with Guitar Hero III. I'm loving this game, so much. Anyway, playing 'One' reminded me just how much I love the song. I was remarking to Tim how incredibly incredible it is, which is a shame because its lyrics and subject are so depressing. And I said it would be better if the song was about cute, fluffy kittens.

This will probably only be halfway interesting if you know the song.


I love playing with a string
I love licking puddles of cream
I'd eat a chicken softball team
this tiny stomach stops me!

now naptime is over for me
I'm waking up, I cannot see
there's still blankets over me
can I has some yum foods now?

growling tum as I wish for yum
oh please dude, feed me!

back in the kitchen it's smelly
the humans are watching telly
but I want pilchards in jelly
look to the time when I'll eat

fed through the day not often enough
I really think i've got it rough
I really love that human stuff
but I'll eat anything!

growling tum as I wish for yum
oh please dude, feed me!

now I'm done with Purina One
oh dude, pat me on my tum as I wish for yum

screen door imprisoning me
all that I see
birds in the back yard
I cannot chase
I cannot eat
trapped in the house
let me out - let me in!

humans have taken my fun
taken my bird
taken my chicken
taken my dirt
taken my bugs
taken my sun
left me with life inside!

I am so sick of seeing people write "you (general you)" in their posts.

The word you are looking for is 'one'. USE IT!

Just now on Australian radio station TripleJ was a segment on being childfree/VHEMT.

VHEMT visionary Les U. Knight makes an appearance, along with many interviewed young Australians (childfree and not), an idiot ethicist who trots out the 'replacement rate' argument, and the guy calling for a carbon tax on babies. Bonus fun with the 'the whole purpose of everyone's life is to breed' and 'my IVF baby might cure cancer' bingos.

Awesome, right? The half-hour segment should appear sometime soon for download here, as well as a possible blog page. Enjoy!

(xposted)

Music Shuffle
So, here’s how it works:
Open your music player (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, etc).
Put it on shuffle.
Press play.
For every question type the song that’s playing. When you go to a new question press the next button.
Readers can request a song to be uploaded.

Opening Credits: Beatles - Dear Prudence
Birth: Björk - 107 Steps (depressing!)
Waking Up: The Easybeats - Sorry
Working song: Elliott Smith - A Fond Farewell
Falling in Love: Paul Simon - I Know What I Know (love this song!)
Sex: Avenue Q - Mix Tape
Lusting: Pink Floyd - Confortably Numb (wtf!)
Cooking Dinner: Gorillaz - Rock The House
Walk in the Park: Camille - Rue de Ménilmontant
Working out at the gym: Holly Throsby - Not The Girl You Think You Are (Crowded House cover)
Fight scene: Jeff Buckley - The Man That Got Away
Breaking up: The Smashing Pumpkins - White Spiders
Secret Love: Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
Life’s okay: Björk - The Dull Flame Of Desire
Mental breakdown: Beastie Boys - Shake Your Rump (uh... what?)
Partying: The Streets - The Irony Of It All
Long night alone: Billy Idol - White Wedding
Final Battle: The Cure - Before Three
Death Scene: Depeche Mode - Somebody
Funeral: Crowded House - World Where You Live
Closing Credits: Trevor Jones - Love Theme (from Dark Crystal)

Corey is my hero. Seriously.

"You should take a good, hard look at yourself."

"I have. Everyone has. They love it."

If I lived in nearby I would honestly be trying to party with this guy. He's the man. And so, so Aus. I love that. I just love bogans, really.

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Looking for payday loan?

I knew those years of Karate training would come in handy someday.