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Home again, finally; over three weeks on the road. Probably more details later, but for now: highlights ( Read more... )

Just a quick check-in; me an' plush_maggot are at Camooweal, about to cross the border into the territory ( Read more... )

I just mailed off the letter accepting the offer of a spot in Psych Honours for 2008.

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Off to Woodford tomorrow, then Uluru after that with plush_maggot.

My final results have just been released:

HPSC 3024 Science and Ethics 86.0% (High Distinction)
PSYC 3010 Advanced Statistics for Psychology 78.0% (Distinction)
PSYC 3013 Perceptual Systems 85.0% (High Distinction)
PSYC 3014 Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience 77.0% (Distinction)

Quite happy with that.

The leadership stand-off between Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull amid the wreckage of the Liberal Party: Sydney's Abbott and Adelaide's Senator Nick Minchin, guardians of the "Howard legacy", used the Right's influence to keep Turnbull, the strong moderate, just out of the leadership and put Brendan Nelson, the weak moderate, in as Howard's ( Read more... )

I'm having a good day.

I spent five hours this morning helping to get rid of the lying weasel, I found my first final semester result (Science and Ethics, HD, 86%) and this evening I'm going to the Greens election party at the Alexandria Hotel then on to the Mu-Meson Archive party at Hermann's, where they will apparently have a John Howard piñata.

As mentioned in the previous post, I'll be campaigning for the Greens next weekend, so I thought I should explain why. If you don't wanna know, feel free to skip ( Read more... )

As I'll be spending 6 hours or so next Saturday morning annoying people on behalf of the Greens, I thought that today I should have a repeat presentation of my old post about democracy.

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Anybody feel like having an election night celebration on Saturday? Get together somewhere for a few drinks while we watch Johnnie go down?

PhD Scholarship in Skill Acquisition ( Read more... )