Misc Updates

Actually spending money at the moment, it's scaring me. First on those second hand books, and now on two albums (nickelback's latest and a band I have only just discovered called shinedown) and Darwin's Origins. I've been meaning to buy The Origin of Species for donkey's years, but just haven't clicked the 'proceed to checkout' button - cause I hate spending money. Oh also going to see the new wolverine movie tonight :D - which is more money :(. But still I'm looking forward to it, Gambit's in it and he's always been my favourite xmen.

In my lab yesterday I made starfish spawn and then fertilised the eggs (oocytes). There was an awful lot to do in the 3 hours and I no where near finished, going to have to look at friends' work to piece together the bits I didn't do and add them to the report. It was so hard to see the sperm under the microscope, the best I got were black dots zooming around and it took me ages just to get to that point. Also there was a lot of scientific drawings to be done - I'm very slow at drawing. Oh well.

Skills for Biologists project poster due next tuesday (same day as the starfish fertilisation practical), so me and Mel are meeting this afternoon to do statistic analysis of our results and talk about the presentation of them - probably sort out the graphs. Then come home and think about what we need to say in the intro, methods, and discussion etc. We'll get together over the weekend and actually write all that probably.

Just checked webCT and my results for the nitrate in soils lab report (which we did about 9 weeks ago) are actually up - i got 18 (so I'm hoping it's out of the 20 point system - if so then it's a very good mark). Might see if I can pick it up from the office on the home after lectures.

Still thinking about the weekly something or other, TTFN xxx