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I have got to get a life.
Spent part of the journey home from Cthulhu last night shouting at a recent TWiP podcast.
"But why would
be selected for in mice but not in people?" Vincent was wondering. "Since Toxo is such a gentle parasite and doesn't hurt either, there should be no selection pressure in the humans or the mice ( Read more... ) -
My quartz of many colours
I gave up and spent last night playing with my rocks.
It is possible that lying on your back on the floor holding some bits of glass and plastic up to the light is not a normal way to spend a Friday evening (or indeed any other). But crystals with two refractive indices are pretty when viewed between crossed polars.
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Who gotz all the rockz?
I gotz all the rockz. ALLZ OF THEM.
When the OU said that this course included 'a home kit with maps, rocks, minerals and fossils' I was basically expecting a little box with like a few rocks, a coupla crystals and an ammonite.
THAT IS NOT WHAT THEY MEANT.
In fact, I have a vast box containing four trays of 27 rocks, 12 minerals, and 17 fossil ( Read more... ) -
When troubles come, they come not as single spies...
I'm meant to be off on holiday tomorrow, just for the weekend.
So I came home this evening, full of anticipation, to discover a miserable and lethargic Fluff-cat. Yes, Sirocco's ill again. I'm really, really hoping that giving him fluids through this evening perks him up by tomorrow; and not just for the sake of the holiday.
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The forced inactivity is driving me nuts.
I buggered my right achilles tendon in early June. It's still buggered.
OK, it's less buggered than it was, but even with the exercises the doctor gave me progress is unbelievably slow and every step forward is followed almost immediately by a step back.
I've been going swimming, obviously, but even if that weren't limited by my right elbow my ( Read more... ) -
[RP] One hundred secrets
Today was the inaugural session of bateleur's new campaign, in which he didn't quite kill a PC, although the dice came quite close to making him.
It was a lot of fun, although the prospect of map-making for an area in which space has been severely messed with is currently breaking shadowjon's brain. Also, although I knew that my PC (Loyalty Briarsgift, maid and ( Read more... ) -
Home again, home again, jiggety jig.
Have returned from a quick weekend visit to my parents with a new duvet set, two gooseberry bushes, a recipe book and a wok. Fortunately just about avoided the rotary cultivator :)
This visit, I discovered some more family history; specifically, that my great-grandfather had died at the Battle of Jutland. Apparently I was meant to have known this ( Read more... ) -
The definition of 'helpiness'
It looks like help, without actually being in any way helpful.
Today's case in point:
Me: Where can I get second-hand coursebooks for S276? I know it's only a month and a bit until I get my own, but I need to start studying them in August because I'm busy revising in September. Alternatively, does anyone know how likely it is that they'll be sent ( Read more... ) -
[RP] Bad GM, no biscuit
These hot nights are playing merry hell with my ability to get anything done. Such as, say, all the prep for yesterday's game.
(Astronomy is also not getting done atm, but that's actually less of a problem)
The game didn't go as badly as I had feared, but there were a couple of points where I was painfully aware that I as GM should be Doing ( Read more... ) -
Oh good. I do indeed remember how to exam.
I suspected my paper was probably a bit borderline, and it turns out I was right; exactly borderline, in fact. 84%, which is... technically one under a distinction, but it seems they gave it to me anyway. Which is nice.*
I am now, of course, irritated with myself for not doing better. I wonder where I lost all the other marks?
*Either they fiddled ( Read more... )