Busy days; having recovered from some sort of flu bug and having finally got past a fortnight that included a stolen laptop, my mother's aunt dying and an oven door that decided it wanted to become stuck halfway open, I find myself trying to start and finish a lit review and begin the process of cutting my rock samples and battling winter. I am ( Read more... )

HAVING WEEKEND OFF FROM JOB HEAVILY INVOLVING GEOLOGY

WATCHING A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN AND ITS GEOLOGY

I THINK THIS IS WHAT NORMAL PEOPLE MEAN WHEN THEY TALK ABOUT A BAD WORK/LIFE BALANCE

OMGOMG

NOW THERE ARE GLOW IN THE DARK CRICKETS LIVING IN OLD LAVA TUBES

YAAAAY NATURE

ETA

ANTI-FREEZE VAMPIRE BUGS:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Volcano in Montserrat erupts, giving spectacular views for passengers on a plane flying by.

Aw man, we're studying Montserrat's volcanoes right now and everything. Awesome photo though.

The first time I heard about Ada Lovelace was from Sydney Padua's webcomic, The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage (which is goddamn glorious, and I'll post an entry full of squee about it some other time). That led me to the link to Ada Lovelace Day (for which the first comic was originally drawn) and so now I'm here, posting about women ( Read more... )

Sometimes I think that my comfort viewings are not other people's comfort viewings. I have a cold at the moment, you see (so it must be the start of the cold months), and I've been distracting myself by watching videos of pillow lavas and thunderstorms. They are strangely mesmerising! The lavas especially, because I am of course a geology geek and ( Read more... )

Since it is finally december I feel justified in breaking out my absolute favourite christmas icon, although since my Discworld icon is from Hogfather I guess I have a christmas-themed icon all year round. But I am not a major retail company so I am not low enough to start putting up red and green in october, for chrissakes. I think it would be ( Read more... )

Thankyou guys for all of your birthday wishes! I'm going away for geology fun and games for a week, see you on the 22nd! Hopefully the yuletide letters will have gone out by then, and you can watch me flail all over the internet.

Have fun everyone! I would say more but we are leaving at 7 tomorrow morning, and I should have been asleep half an hour ago...

Diamonds are behaving themselves tonight. I've done the first draft of my essay and it's only 1025 words over the limit. I think this is a personal best!

Also, someone get rid of this Nu!Trek bunny for me or help me give it a plot, I only have this line for it:

'Jim, STDs are not creatures in an ancient children's game. Your aim should not be to ( Read more... )

Dear diamonds,

Fuck you. You are most definitely not this girl's best friend right now.

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Dear runaway_talesYour description on LJ Spotlight is making me confused. And hungry ( Read more... )

Today I held uranium-rich rocks in my prac class. Geology: FUCKING HARDCORE.

I keep wanting to leave the full stop off my sentences, I think I have been reading too much H!AV