It must mean something that the other day I received really awesome news, while nobody was home and Scott wasn't answering his mobile at work, and I was bursting to tell someone, and I didn't even think of coming to LJ and posting about it - instead I wrote an e-mail to my external Honours supervisor at the AFP and sulked until Scott called me back ( Read more... )

So today I got a letter in the mail from my Grandma. Postal delay really fucks with one's head at times ( Read more... )

Grandma died on the 30th. She was taken down from sedation & then off the breathing machine & died 20 minutes later. I have been assured that she went peacefully. The funeral will be on the 4th of January, which, not incidentally, is her surviving husband's birthday. Speaking of Grandpa, nobody really knows what to do with him. His dementia is ( Read more... )

So, today my mum called. I called her "mum" and she said, "You're so Australian ( Read more... )

... and unfortunately I don't have a lot of positive stuff to report! 28 seems a lot like 26 and 27 - working too hard, not playing enough, always being busy. It's why I haven't updated in some time - not just because I've been busy, but also because nothing exciting has really happened ( Read more... )

but damn, Federer is HOT. Mmmmmgrowr. Especially when he gets a point and then glowers at his opponent. Like ... wow ( Read more... )

Ugh. I am totally over this whole process of writing a lab manual and creating new lab exercises from whole cloth. Unfortunately I can't stop now, as I still have a L O T to do and it's due in Monday ( Read more... )

This (Warning: EXE file, do not click unless you want to download this file!) has got to be one of the best things on the internet. It's a graph paper generating program, that will make you rectangular, polar, polygonal, and many other types of graph paper, to your exact specifications, that can be copy/pasted straight into a Word document. Also it ( Read more... )

Holy shit man ( Read more... )

I didn't totally suck ( Read more... )