Well, for a number of reasons I thought I'd start a blog (yep, I'm jumping on the "blogwagon"). Am still not sure whether I'm comfortable with anyone actually reading this - at the moment I see it as more of a cathartic thing for me, given my state of mind for the last several months, & my now-renewed desire to become part of humanity once more...or something like that...
So I offer no apologies for the somewhat boring, shallow &/or downright childish things I may write....so there! Also, I am very much a nerd, for which I also make no apology! (In fact am rather proud of said nerd-dom) .
Anyhoo, on to what I've been up to lately. Matt, Tim & his gf Michelle, Chris & myself are off to Mt Buller for a few days this Sunday for a skiing sojourn, and to indulge in various apres activites of an alcoholic nature (ahem...). I fully intend to show them all up for the inferior skiers they truly are (well except maybe Tim, who has recently spent several weeks on the ski slopes of Canada - but he is a boarder and thus doesn't count)
I went to the chiropractor tonight, and got my bones cracked - quackery or not, it seems to make me feel better. I do however think that all chiropractors are sadists, deep down (or not so deep...). It puts me in mind of Eddie Izzard describing his Osteopath cracking his bones: "The noise! the noise! I live for the noise!"
I bought & read the new Harry Potter book last Saturday, twas ok I guess - the events that transpired in it were not terribly surprising. Even though the Harry Potter books could be said to be inane drivel, said drivel is still eminently readable, and I will eagerly await the next (& last) installment, even though it's fairly obvious as to how it will all end. At least JK Rowling finishes her series (not naming names...cough, cough...Robert Jordan!)
Work seems to be going better lately, hopefully I'll get some decent results before too long (before my supervisor visits from Germany next month, where he is a Direktor of a Max Planck Institut...hoo boy!) If anyone does actually read this, I'm currently working on Cry2Ab resistance in the cotton bollworm (Helicoverpa armigera), using AFLPs (Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphisms) to identify linkage groups, in order to determine the location where the gene/genes for resistance to the Bt toxin map. This is a joint project with CSIRO Entomology in Canberra, funded by Cotton Industry. Oh, and Cry2Ab is a toxin expressed by soil bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis, the toxin-expressing gene of which has been put into Bt cotton.
(eyes glazed over yet?...I'm not the most articulate of people)
Hopefully in the next couple of weeks I will start Operation: Decrease Derriere, and finally get down to (in my mind) an acceptable weight. I probably need to lose at least 10kgs (eep!) Oh, for the halcyon days when my 175cm frame was a size 8! (see, I told you this would be shallow) Only problem being is that if I do get back down to this weight, I will go down a cup size at least - which lets face it, I can't really afford to lose. Oh well, I'll just get massive implants, and change my name to Pammy...or Jordan...whatever.
More on the shallow front - must stop buying clothes & shoes! Went on something of a binge earlier this month, but it was sales time, so it's ok... Got some noice things though, the best bargain being some knee-high Kenneth Cole Boots reduced from $700 to $240 - yay me! Also bought a couple of Sass & Bide items (naughty!) - a jacket and singlet, which are very, very noice indeed. Now to actually go somewhere to wear them.
Oh - and I also make no apologies for posting pics of my chocolate oriental cat (& surrogate child), Loki. Ok, I'm just a little bit sorry...a smidgin sorry if you will...
So I offer no apologies for the somewhat boring, shallow &/or downright childish things I may write....so there! Also, I am very much a nerd, for which I also make no apology! (In fact am rather proud of said nerd-dom) .
Anyhoo, on to what I've been up to lately. Matt, Tim & his gf Michelle, Chris & myself are off to Mt Buller for a few days this Sunday for a skiing sojourn, and to indulge in various apres activites of an alcoholic nature (ahem...). I fully intend to show them all up for the inferior skiers they truly are (well except maybe Tim, who has recently spent several weeks on the ski slopes of Canada - but he is a boarder and thus doesn't count)
I went to the chiropractor tonight, and got my bones cracked - quackery or not, it seems to make me feel better. I do however think that all chiropractors are sadists, deep down (or not so deep...). It puts me in mind of Eddie Izzard describing his Osteopath cracking his bones: "The noise! the noise! I live for the noise!"
I bought & read the new Harry Potter book last Saturday, twas ok I guess - the events that transpired in it were not terribly surprising. Even though the Harry Potter books could be said to be inane drivel, said drivel is still eminently readable, and I will eagerly await the next (& last) installment, even though it's fairly obvious as to how it will all end. At least JK Rowling finishes her series (not naming names...cough, cough...Robert Jordan!)
Work seems to be going better lately, hopefully I'll get some decent results before too long (before my supervisor visits from Germany next month, where he is a Direktor of a Max Planck Institut...hoo boy!) If anyone does actually read this, I'm currently working on Cry2Ab resistance in the cotton bollworm (Helicoverpa armigera), using AFLPs (Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphisms) to identify linkage groups, in order to determine the location where the gene/genes for resistance to the Bt toxin map. This is a joint project with CSIRO Entomology in Canberra, funded by Cotton Industry. Oh, and Cry2Ab is a toxin expressed by soil bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis, the toxin-expressing gene of which has been put into Bt cotton.
(eyes glazed over yet?...I'm not the most articulate of people)
Hopefully in the next couple of weeks I will start Operation: Decrease Derriere, and finally get down to (in my mind) an acceptable weight. I probably need to lose at least 10kgs (eep!) Oh, for the halcyon days when my 175cm frame was a size 8! (see, I told you this would be shallow) Only problem being is that if I do get back down to this weight, I will go down a cup size at least - which lets face it, I can't really afford to lose. Oh well, I'll just get massive implants, and change my name to Pammy...or Jordan...whatever.
More on the shallow front - must stop buying clothes & shoes! Went on something of a binge earlier this month, but it was sales time, so it's ok... Got some noice things though, the best bargain being some knee-high Kenneth Cole Boots reduced from $700 to $240 - yay me! Also bought a couple of Sass & Bide items (naughty!) - a jacket and singlet, which are very, very noice indeed. Now to actually go somewhere to wear them.
Oh - and I also make no apologies for posting pics of my chocolate oriental cat (& surrogate child), Loki. Ok, I'm just a little bit sorry...a smidgin sorry if you will...
posted by -Feebz- at 9:03 PM
2 Comments:
I've deflowered your blog.
Mwwuuhahaha.
Bags sloppy seconds.
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