My Walk - Plus Some Random ChitChat

Walk was amazing. One of those times when you just don't want to go back to civilisation (albeit it was only 30 mins away). You're heart just sinks at the first sound of cars and people as you walk back. I am so antisocial :P. 

Anyway pics as promised: 

Best part of the walk was watching gannets plummeting into the sea to catch fishies :D. Watched for about 40 mins - partly in the hope that larger more mammalian diners would join the apparent fishy feast (btw they didn't). For further info I'm not an ornithologist (bar corvids) but rather a mammaliologist (may have made that term up). I did try to film the action with my digital camera - with slight success:    

                                          

I'll go on another walk later, but this time I'll take my big binoculars rather than my baby ones. Judging by the fact I saw more gannets on the way into town this morning (walked along the beach), I should see more later :D. 

Currently I'm packing (or atleast that's the intention). Dad's picking me up on wednesday, and I'm no where near down. It's just so daunting looking around at your stuff and just no idea where to start. Not Good! 

May write something more later - and possibly post a song :D we shall see saw. 

See You Laters, Alligators xxx

A song I love - maybe could be my weekly thing

This is an experiment. Maybe this could be my weekly thing. A song I've discovered and love. I'll do an actual post later. TTFN xx

Rambling like filling in

I checked and yes I did mention going to see Wolverine origins but not what I thought of it. So I shall correct the omission. It was an amazing movie, though some parts were too clearly special effects, and it all seemed alittle fast (I would have preferred a bit more character introduction - as it was you met people and then they left in an hour and 20 minute blur), and Gambit's accent wasn't quite as strong as I would have liked (but perhaps that was the cartoons fault). 

Now to Star Trek which was, I hate to admit it (and I feel I am betraying X-men), better than wolverine origins. There were no moments of clear special effects fakeness, it made me laugh, the beginning would make some people cry, and just in general it was a very good movie. Simon Pegg was an absolute genius in it (though when is he not :D - the episode of Black Books he is in is fantastic). 

Also, right now I am using google chrome and liking it, though there a few things that I have to get used to. I did try opera for a while and liked it, but it didn't like webCT (a kind of necessary thing). I shall have another go with firefox later, it was just so complicated with apps and all this customisation - you could get very lost. 

You know the second hand books I bought? Well I began reading one before revision period but had to give it up, and I finished it this morning. The stupid thing grabbed me yesterday, for a few hours in the morning and then until 2am. It's now finished and the sequel is calling my name from across the room. It was The Wolves of Time: Journeys to the Heartland by William Horwood, and very goood.

I have so many little things I need to do before I start packing etc (Dad's picking me up next Wednesday), including going to the Biology office to pick up work and hand in forms (my application for honours and the form for the field trip). Unfortunately they have restricted opening times during exam period (9-12) and I overslept slightly this morning (10am) and the final pages of the book grabbed me so i've missed it. Will have to have another go on  monday. 

Weather's absolutely gorgeous, for once, so I think I'll go for a walk once my hair dries. Possibly after lunch. I do feel that the obsession with the weather is one of the only British stereotypes to hold true.  Also yet to read the Ida paper - that blasted book stopped me from doing loads of things yesterday. Have a strange want to watch Pride and Prejudice (the BBC, Colin Firth as Darcey one).

Maybe I'll post a few pics of my walk, just to shake things up a bit. 

TTFN xxx

Internet Exploring - adventures of the absolutely knackered

Firstly why am I not asleep! I just don't seem to be moving - I swear I am so tired those lines took a few tries without typos. Maybe I should surrender and stop this post until the morning (atleast I'll heavily edit). Exploring different web browsers - internet explorer I have, but firefox? and google chrome? etc - I don't know I'm feeling experimental. Oh if only people read this and could give guidance - :P I know you all have way more interesting things to be doing, like watching paint dry. 

sweet dreams xx 

I'm Back

Long time, no blog. I have many good reasons for not blogging, the primary one being the horror that is exams. Yes it is/was exam period - and a horrific one at that. Arm absolutely buggered from writing and revision etc and sleep has been fitfull. But, today was my last exam, and it is now officially summer :D. Let's keep our fingers crossed I did well - I can never really tell. Maybe I'll go for a walk this afternoon?

Errm let's think what I need to fill you in with. Would help if I could remember what I last wrote! I'll just mention that I really like the band A Fine Frenzy that I've just discovered. Oh and spotify :D thankyou Emma for telling me about it (btw that's not me Emma but another Emma - there's a few of us). Oh I don't think I told you how amazing the Star Trek (is that one word or two?) movie is, (I assume I mentioned going to see wolverine: origins - I'll check in a bit).

I have so many RSS feeds to have a flick through and read and delete as appropriate - going to take me eons.

So looking forward to having actual cooked food for tea - I live off canned food etc during revision period (minimize interuption time - I'm such a dedicated student :P). Thinking home made veg soup - bought savoy cabbage etc especially.

TTFN (or until I remember something I was supposed to say),

xxx

Oh yeah I really need to give this thing a purpose - I'm looking into it don't worry imaginary readers.

Lethargy

Hi,

Sorry lack of posts, not sure why I haven't posted it's not like I've been doing anything. Suppose it's this horrid lethargic mentality I have at the mo - just living in a zombie like state of hibernation. Need to start revising - well I've slightly started ... kind of. Ecology lectures have now finished, and just two more comparative physiology. Which is lovely because I haven't enjoyed comparative physiology all that much - at the moment we are doing immunology and it's far from enthralling (no offence to it it's just not my cup of coffee).

Went to a lovely seminar on Tuesday evening by a lecturer from oxford (he was adorable and with a stephen fry accent :D), it was very interesting about circadian rhythms, light/dark, and sleep etc. Talked about a 3rd photoreceptor in the eye - certain ganglion cells are also photoreceptive. I love how seminars that don't sound like the kind of thing you usually like are actually interesting - never trust the titles of seminars, go anyway (within reason of course - I don't mean go to a maths, chemistry or politics seminar, for example (unless that's what you're into).

My skills for biologists poster was handed in on Tuesday, and peer reviewed - they were very harsh on it and i was a little dismayed. Thankfully it is also part marked by the lecturer who I feel will do it more justice.

I think that's all I wanted to say for now - bound to be things I've forgotten but I'll add to it later. Going to get ready soon and nip into Tesco on the way to the lecture. Oh yeah I remember I was going to have British moment and complain about the weather - it is really windy (I have hair down to my waist btw and so wind is an absolute pain). I'm not being melodramatic the MET office weather people say we'll get 55mph gusts of wind with a base wind level of 30mph. It practically sounds like it's trying to break through my window. A definate day for putting my hair up.

That's it for now,

TTFN xxx

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Dead or alive? Living ants chemically signal their vitality: Scientific American Blog

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