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I hate Canberra.
I hate entire mobile network system here. Like what the hell man. Sucky network, faulty SIM cards and crappy customer service.
And why the hell do I need a passport to get a SIM card?! You people confuse and infuriate me.

That really heavy feeling that drags you down.

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My laptop fails.

Yeah. We got it like five years ago so it’s one of those “lap” tops that you really don’t want to have sitting on your lap for too long or your blood vessels will collapse and you will lose all feeling in your legs. Good times to be had there.

In other news, my academic life is at its busiest at the moment which means that my actual life is devoid of all social contact and I spend my days worrying about the next assignment I have to do while trolling Facebook and the rest of the Internet procrastinating. Why do I always do this to myself?

I will post better things after exams. I hope.

If you have nothing nice to say…

Don’t say anything at all.

Something we can all take away from Bambi. Use it.

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Random titles for random posts. XD

Not even past lunch and I’ve already broken my promise to myself to not go on tumblr.

The Mysterious Case of the Missing Culture

Hellos again all~!

Guess what happened to me today?

An hour after putting my bacterial culture in the incubator it disappeared.

Like. Actual. Gone.

I spent two hours (okay, I’m exaggerating, only half-an-hourish. But still.) running around in the lab looking for it, even rifling through the bins a couple times - to no avail.

In the end it turned out that some girl decided that she needed to use the incubator and had moved my samples to some unknown corner of the lab.

WHYYYYYY?

WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?

SERIOUSLY WOMAN. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?

The more I think about it the more it makes me mad. I understand now why Herah gets angry at things people do in her lab. It’s Laboratory Rage. Inducible by the inexplicable actions of stupid idiots in the lab.

Okay, I get that you’d booked the incubator or whatever but if you had any human decency in you, you would have at the very least left a note. That was a time sensitive experiment that takes a whole day to do!

Grrrr.

Don’t wanna end this on a negative note so I will share a funny (to me XD) anecdote from my time in the lab.

So I was making up this reaction mixture and I asked my supervisor how much buffer I should put into it (yep, still don’t know what it does). 

He tells me: “Use 5mLs.”

I used 0.5mLs.

Or I tried to. But luckily I checked with him again before I put anything in.

Yeah.

Because my mind does not understand the concept of decimal places.

Another instance of this is when I put 500uLs of antibiotic into my media instead of 5uLs.

Seriously, do the zeros at the end of numbers mean nothing to me?!

Anyways, I’m gonna go home and watch Once Upon a Time. It’s so gooood!

First Week of Honours Year

At the Chiasma meeting on Wednesday had to describe our week in one word.

Different.

Was what I said. But it was also really busy and hectic. Mainly due to Launch prep and orientation stuff, but also cuz I now have to walk back and forth multiple times a day between Grafton and City. Which is usually a long and lonely walk…mainly lonely lol.

At least I’m getting lots of exercise, which is good cuz on Tuesday I decided that I was going on a diet to lose all that holiday fat that I put on. Which is apparently quite noticeable…Cuz one of the first thing Bin said to me after we met up for the first time in three months was: “Darling……….have you……..gained weight?”
And you know it really pains your friends to say negative things about your appearance, so the fact that she brought it up means that she must’ve been really concerned.

Diet Progress so far: Broke diet on tuesday (ie. Diet Day 1) with three slices of pizza. And I made sure to choose the biggest, most cheese laden slices haha.
Then on Wednesday the diet was broken again with one giant piece of chocolate brownie. Managed (barely) to stop at just one…so massive improvement on my part! XD

In other news! I started to do some lab work with my supervisor! He’s super nice and has been walking me through things slowly. But I have one burning question that I’m afraid is too stupid to ask him.

What does buffer do again?

…like “buff” stuff?

Ah I’m well on my way to a Nobel prize aren’t I?

A Weekend Away in the Coromandel

Hello!! This must be my first new post in years!

And I’m returning with some nice memories of the entertaining and unexpectedly wild weekend I had with the Chiasma team in the Coromandel! So many things happened that it really didn’t feel like just two days and two nights away.

Anyways, gonna start with a short, meaningless story about my time at the Hot Water Beach situated on Hot Water Beach Road. Yeah, we have geniuses naming our roads.

The hot water beach was so lovey~ a definite highlight! I really regret not bringing my togs :(
Had to make do with just dipping my toes in the water. Though I actually ended up wading in to about knee deep. Cuz the water was just so inviting.

Did a bit of sun bathing too. But ended up using someone’s showering towel as a beach towel…without asking. Needless to say it was a really gauche moment there when she asked for her towel back and it was covered in sand…………….*mental facepalm* gonna be bringing my own towels from now on.

The actual hot water part of the beach was a little off to the side. And by hot they really mean BOILING HOT. I strolled through casually and got about like a couple meters in before I realised the sand I was standing on was burning my feet!

Cue frantic hopping and wild flailing arms.

It hurt so much I almost couldn’t remember how to get back to the normal sand.
Seriously thought I was gonna die for a second. Either that or get third degree burns on my toes…

And that was my mini near death experience at the beach.

More (and possibly better) stories to come…if I can be bothered.