filling the gap

I am leaving gaps between posts already, not a good sign for its continuation I must admit. The barnacle lab report was handed in yesterday and I'm not filled with confidence about it - apparently she'd only wanted standard error and confidence limits etc not any complicated statistical comparisons. Am glad to say I covered my bases and did put standard error in along with kruskal-wallis tests so we shall see. Now I must revise for the timed essay (let's call it the practise exam question) on wednesday (christ that's tomorrow). It's based on the last 4 weeks - atleast it's not the entire module (just a third of it).

I really want to buy and get into a book - I miss the irrational devouring of a novel, you know where it just grabs you and no matter where, for instance in a lecture, part of you is still there with the book. There are a few novels on my shelves I haven't read yet (actually there's quite a few I buy and then don't have the time to read), maybe I should give one of them a shot and see what happens. At the moment I'm reading "The Diversity of Life" by E.O. Wilson, but perhaps I can read that at the same time as something more frivolous. I will be honest I had thought about buying the book Twilight - the internet told me it's only £3.49 in waterstones and the movie was ok there were some huge odd things that left a little clueless - like why can he read minds but no one else can and erm alice, i think, can see the future. Not exactly your normal vampire thing - and the shinyness in the sun rather than the burning up and dying. Basically I'm afraid to buy this book and find it's just another harry potter. Further confusion is why they're so in love - they don't seem to have proper conversation in the movie, it's all animalistic lust.

Went to a seminar yesterday evening as a kind of celebration that all the essays and lab reports had been done - I worry myself when I realise I saw a seminar as a reward. It was on decoding the function of humpback whale song and was very interesting. Part of me wanted to go down to the informal drinks and discussion section that's always after these things, but they feel so awkward and i just hover around the periphery willing someone to speak to me and start a conversation. Which they never do, and so I leave.

Really should have done my washing yesterday - I have practically run out of clean clothes - definately must be done this afternoon. So annoying.

Right I need to do some revision before getting ready for lectures. Am meeting Mel 20 mins before the lecture to sort out some equipment for our Skills For Biologists project. Tell you about that later.

TTFN (ta ta for now) xx