Postapocalyptic!

Week of doom is past. I don't have midsem break until like 24th Sept, but that means my next half of the semester will be short. Pretty good!!

Might go and crash UNSW, maybe.
It won't be a real "break" though, I'll have a bit of catching up on lectures and I'll have to read the textbooks or something. I've barely touched them except to reference them in assignments. On a somewhat related note, the turkeys at UQ are freakin hilarious. There's two just chasing each other like 2 metres away from me right now.

Hm, I have to present this journal article to my prac group. The whole article's based on stats, and I haven't done stats before, so I guess I'll just wing it.

So tired.

Prac ran 20 minutes overtime :/. Woken by a crow outside my window at 5am, so got 3hrs of sleep >:\/\/. Missed bus like 3 times in a row due to inability to think straight. Carried textbooks and laptop around uni all day, trying to finish off an assignment so I can focus on the exam on Saturday :/ after which I will have around 1 day to do an assignment by Sunday (most of these I couldn't start before this week, because I need results from my experiments, or group contribution from other group members, etc. before I can start). Then, afterwards, going to let looseeeee! Study hard play hard live hard? Maybe. For the foreseeable future, anyway. /endrant.

Actually, that's all I really wanted to say I guess. Don't have much brain left to think about other stuff, been (and still is) a most hectic and epic week. Oh, and if you windsurf with garbage bags, you're pretty cool.

Return!

My current PhD hypothesis: You are an bactercocciamoebacrobialgus!

Proposed methods: I will dissect you! Using a diamond pickaxe, a TV remote and a stuffed James Ruse sheep!

Estimated results: I will take all the items you drop, and auction them off!

So in addition to that, I just wanted to express how good having internet back is. Though it's very inconsistent at the moment. Still, prettygoodprettygood! The downside is that I can't do any bludging or anime-watching online because I have a ton of research papers, 4 lectures, 3 assessments, and 3 exams to read, Lectopia, complete, and sit, respectively (or not), next week. One of the exams are on next Saturday, too. UQ has something against me I think. Ahwells, bring it on!

I've been doing a bunch of pracs on cane toads. Actually I've killed way too many cane toads (or not enough, as some QLDers argue). I had 6 hours of pracs today, with an 1-hour break between each 3-hour prac. Pretty fun and stressful at the same time. Throat is a bit dry from talking to groupmates in pracs. I never talk this much lol.

Some random stuff arrived from eBay, so that instead of keeping my housemates up at night with lousy guitar playing (they haven't complained about the noise yet because they've been up doing stuff until like 1am every night for a week), I can just plug some headphones in, and no one will hear me! /sad LOL. I actually realised that whether I like a guitar or not depends more on how good it looks than how well it plays/sounds. Shallow and pedantique! English!

Also tried making deep-fried apple. (Yeah, deep-fried apple, what the heck is that, I don't even what is this). Was a semi-success. coated apple in egg, bread-crumb-like flavouring/crusting mix, and starch, and put into hot oil. Kind of, I mean, extremely weird looking, but average-tasting. What I don't get is cooking chicken with coke for sauce. That will probably be the next retarded project I try to make haha.

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I forgot about this
There's the 11 deaths in the house fire in the headlines. That's actually very sad. And the father that lost 5 of his kids and his wife. In the photos, it looks like he's just given up. They're still investigating the cause and whether the house had a smoke detector (the inside being burnt out probably makes investigation that much harder). And this: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/surviving-father-leapt-from-burning-home-believing-family-was-already-safe/story-e6frg6nf-1226122662414. That father thought his family had escaped, because he couldn't hear their voices anymore, so he jumped out. Must be so bad for him.

Makes you realise that you don't have it that bad. Yeah, you DON'T have it that bad. Makes my whinging sound like, well, just whinging.

Journal

Man, some journal articles are so complicated. Almost to the point where every third sentence will have you wondering why you're even reading it in the first place. But then, reading some others and actually understanding them feels kind of good. I'm not sure whether I'll have to write them in the future, I can't imagine the writing process to be much fun (having been through it quite a few times), but if you've actually discovered something, writing it shouldn't be a tedium, it should be exciting, I'm guessing?

It seems that whenever I make a plan for a day, or a week, a period of time in general, I never actually carry it out fully. I always have my hopes too high. I guess I have an exaggerated perception of my attention span and/or patience. Typical. And my memory, too, it seems - I think I left out the meat for two days before I realised I took out the meat to defrost, and so I've nothing to cook because I'm actually out of food and emergency rations. And chocolate, even. LOL

Oh well, here's to all the stuff that I'm meant to do and to have done! Rest in peace!

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Gosh chemotaxis is so confusing, anyone doing chem/know a lot about GTPases and PIP3/anything want to help? LOL.

No internet.

So we're currently upgrading our internet, and TPG takes 10-20 days to make the upgrade, so I have no internet at home. I'm way over the allowance for my mobile broadband already. -.-

So I'm mostly at uni these days, leeching the internet. I haven't cooked for around a week! It's either been kebabs, Jap food, instant noodles or raisin toast and breads, and salads.

Also, the Fender has arrived! Strat is here! etc. I'll link a pic

Yep, never mind, I'll upload one.

Fender American Deluxe Stratocaster (made in USA!!1@!), with um a maple fingerboard, SSS configuration.

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So this plays very (I mean very) nicely. (Though, now I feel really bad.) It's been named. It has a cool tremolo system and locking tuners to mess around with. It came with the moulded SKG case, with all the goodies inside, like a leather strap, locking tuners, lead, stickers, everything. (excited!)

I still like the sound of my black guitar better though. But it doesn't play nearly as well and isn't nearly as nice as the Strat. I also wrote two new songs in two days just off this Strat. /prettygood

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made yoghurt-flavoured fried rice, but forgot to add salt. GG

Gosh

http://www.globalphotos.org

I've spent hours looking at those already, I think.

What is this

, I don't even.

All this weird ECG readings and etc. And wobble hypotheses.

UQ had 500mL bottles of DARE iced coffee for 2 dollars, which was quite awesome, but that ended.


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omg genetics is confusing.