It only takes one tree to make a thousand matches...

Today has been a good day! And in fact it has been a good week.

I went to church with Karen after having the most amazing sleep ever and it was a really good sermon. I feel really blessed, especially having Karen there because she means so much to me!

Then I came home and chilled and went to training which was rather fun, there weren't many of us so we just mucked about which was good and unstrenuous.

I also found out that Karen's Dad may be able to pick me up a D300 from duty free on his way out to Saudi which is AWESOME! I am incredibly lucky. I can't wait to get it, I really want to improve my photography and take it much more seriously with this camera. I am rather excited!!

Karen goes home next weekend so I shall have some peace (=P) but will be rather lonely. I shall probably try to get my introduction for my project written and take some photos. I may even go on an expedition to town on an evening if its nice.

I have just typed up all my results from winkle watching and shall have to start processing them next week which I think may just be more boring than collecting the data in the first place.

I am very much looking forward to the seminar tomorrow as its on cancer so hopefully will be very interesting!

Its bed time now, I'm pretty shattered.

This is my United States of Whatever...

Today it is sunny which is nice. I went to the gym and had a fairly comprehensive workout and a super hot shower.

I am just about to eat lunch and head into uni for an afternoon in labs/reading.

The weekend was fairly hectic what with waking up for winkle picking at 7am on Saturday and finally getting to bed after Pop Tarts at 2am on Sunday morning. Winkle picking was rather good fun and the weather was great although a bit windy. I did manage to get some photographs which I converted to jpegs last night and shall finish editing tomorrow most likely.

A woman from Hong Kong wanted to use a hockey photo I took in a publication but wasn't going to pay me for it so I had to politely decline. However it is nice that people like my photos.

The winkles are a pain in the arse - they don't like to show you their genitals which makes them annoying to sex although we do have more than enough for our experiments!

I am staying at Karen's tonight which I am looking forward to. Plus this weekend we get to go to the lodge and have a bonfire and fireworks and lots of scrumptious food yay!

Karen hasn't heard from Hallam yet and is a bit worried but I think it will be OK and hope and pray that she gets an interview because she definitely deserves one!

Anyway its lunch time and I sm starving.

Big wheels keep on turning...

Karen is asleep on my bed, wearing my hoodie. She's adorable. I may get my camera to take a photo.

We handed in our field course write ups today! Hurrah. I am quite relieved and have had a bit of an evening off to celebrate. I don't have anything at all tomorrow so shall catch up on my reading and lecture notes too. I may even try to get out and take some photos of the men's 1's match vs Hallam if the weather is good enough.

I really need to be less judgemental. I have been critical of people in the past when it was very unfairly deserved and need to be aware that you should never judge a book by its cover.

I am going winkle picking on Saturday so have to be up for about 7am, great... I am almost looking forward to it as I do like the beach but its unlikely to be particularly picturesque. I think I will take my camera anyway and see if I get any good/useful shots.

Ria's b'day is on Saturday and were going to poptarts (again) which should be fun, it'll be nice to hang out at opal for a bit beforehand if I am back in time.

Your eyes they hypnotize me every night I'm in a dream, just lie here with me...

Note to say this is going to be big. James Nachtwey October 3rd.

Today it is sunny huzzah!

I'm still feeling the effects of bouldering on Tuesday; my forearms and shoulders hurt pretty badly.

My field course write up is going OK, I am on target with my word limit so that's good.

I had a great time last night. Met up with cell friends from church and ate some lovely food then toddled down to the pub and had a relaxing drink with the biology crew. I feel incredibly blessed to have so many friends to look after me. But most of all to have Karenstickalaren to hug me to sleep even if I am minging and full of cold.

Karen's computer screen has died alas. Hopefully Dell will be able to fix it so we can MSN again and Kazz doesn't have to splash out on a new screen/computer which may impinge on our holiday next year.

I am happy to say I am going to get very familiar with winkles over the next twelve weeks. My project is likely to be looking at the responses of winkle species to predation. How exciting!