Why is the world conspiring against me and my field work

Greetings everyone. So Sunday I had field work all planned to do. Get to my field site at 12 and hopefully leave by 6.30. I wake up and there is a tsunami warning to keep away from all coastal areas. I think "screw that" - I am going. I NEED to do this experiment (this is my second attempt at this particular experiment as the rain last time caused me to lose 75 percent of the labels I had glued to the rocks!!!). So after calming my mum and the friends i had roped in to help me and telling them that "No, the tsunami will not affect us" we headed off.

All seemed to be going well - though cloudier than I would have liked. No tsunami at all. The height of the water seemed the same as usual.

But then...thunder and lighting...literally. After the last area had been painted with paint stripper it started to rain!!!! I nearly cried with frustration. I needed the paint stripper to dry and go away before I could finish the last part of my experiment and with the rain there was no chance of that. So i tried as best I could to remove the remaining paint stripper but I fear (alas) that my experiment will be confounded (as in not work properly).


http://www.eontarionow.com/images/Rain.jpg

Second time in a fortnight!!!

On a good note - I have now written 34 pages (just of text) of my thesis. The limit for my honours thesis is 75 pages (not including figures, tables, graphs, references). So yay!!! Nearly half way there!!!!

Pettiskirt Princess - I want this skirt

Through my browing of fan pages on facebook I discovered Pettiskirt Princess. Originally they just sold kids skirts but now they also sell adults/teen sized skirts. And I really would love to have this skirt. Isn't it gorgeous!



Unfortunately can't justify spending $50 on a skirt at the moment as I have no job. Hurry up May!!!

Here is another cute one but currently they don't do this style in adult :(

My neice and nephew

As I am feeling pretty sick today and was working hard with uni stuff from 8.30 till about an hour ago I am not going to post much today - just some photos me and my boyfriend took in October of Kaia and Bo, my nephew and niece (well technically my boyfriend's...)

Teaser tuesday - 100223

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

•Grab your current read
•Open to a random page
•Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
•BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
•Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters

"This cannot hold", said he, and his fishy face fingers grew rigid, as they sometimes did when he became animated. "No, no, do not desire it; for when the romantic refinements of a young mind are obliged to give way, how frequently are they succedded by such opinions as are but too common, and too dangerous! I speak form experience."

pg. 60

I was slightly doubtful of how much I would enjoy this book at first but I have been pleasantly suprised. Once you get into it it isn't too bad at all :)

After honours

At the moment I am trying to sort out what to do after I finish honours in April. My current plan in terms of further study is to start my phd in 2011. My boyfriend returns to Australia begining of December this year so I don't want to be tied up with anything when he gets back. So that leaves me with around six months. Hypothetically I should get some sort of job - but what... Should I put in some effort and try and get a biology related job?

I really have a craving at the moment to go overseas. Maybe I could be an au pair? I can speak a bit of german - studied it for 4 years in high school. I can't think of any other jobs I could do overseas. I could also au pair in New Zealand which would be pretty cool. OR maybe work someone else in Australia - like up north (since I love it up there). I just feel that I need to get out of Sydney for a bit. Out of my comfort zone.

Has anyone got any suggestions or knowledge in this area???

Things which arrived in the post this week

Two beautiful books arrived in the post for me this week. And as you know I love recieiving post (well...when it is delivered and they don't lose it...see here).

First up miss carly sent me this beautiful notebook to record my exercise, food eating habits and weight loss etc :)



And secondly I won this absolutely gorgeous book held on Mrs P's blog - A study in Contradictions. It is full of photos of hearts in different forms.



Here is my favourite photo (well one of them). Note all the limpets and barnicles in the background!!!



Thanks so much miss carly and Mrs P.!!!

Teaser tuesday - 100216

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

•Grab your current read
•Open to a random page
•Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
•BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
•Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Eats, shoots and leaves by Lynne Truss.

This book I am reading for uni - and I was pleasantly suprised!!! It is all about punctuation - I learnt a little bit and it was a good brush up. It made me laugh so many times. Hard to choose a good teaser from it. But here goes

" Singular possessive instead of plural possessive (a list of misuse of apostrophes)

Pupil's entrance (on a very selective school, presumably)
Adult learner's week (lucky him)"

" Unintential sense from unmarked possessive:
Dicks in tray (try not to think about it)
New members welcome drink (doubtless true)."

pg 50-51

The above examples of bad punctuation really made me laugh.


Next week I will be reading fiction again so don't give up on me yet!!!