Randomness

So I thought I would write a quick blog before my exciting weekend coming up. I will no doubt have a long blog coming back with a TON of pictures. Let’s all hope that I remember my camera battery charger this time. I think forgetting it once at a world class diving spot is enough.

I am almost done with daily aging of otoliths! Shocking. It helps that I ‘only’ have to do 30ish of them instead of the 150ish that there are. I still have to re-read all the larger ones I already did, which were about 200 of those…woooo. Oh and do marginal increment analysis on all of those as well. So needless to say I still have my work cut out for me. I should be starting some of the reproduction work soon, so that should be a nice change to things and another chance to learn something new!

I finished another book! For those of you that don’t know, I don’t ‘read for pleasure’ all that much, haha. I finished The Time Travelers Wife when I first got here and I just read The Lovely Bones. For some reason I didn’t seem to like the latter as much as the rest of the general public. I mean, it was ok, but not really what I was expecting and not in a particularly good way, haha. I still want to see the movie though.

It seems as though the shuffle on my Ipod knows exactly what to play at certain times, it’s getting weird actually. The most recent occurrences include when I was walking to the train station the first weekend, got lost and ended up walking around for an extra hour. About 5 minutes before I actually made it to the train station, the song ‘I would walk 500 miles’ came on. Ridiculous. As I mentioned in the last blog, the Circle of Life came on right as the sun was rising, which (not going to lie) was just epic. And today, I was reading the last otolith before lunch (and as it turned out for the day) and I was just about the start the second and last reading of it when Daft Punk’s ‘One More Time’ came on. The best part of the latter was that they lyrics say ‘we’re gonna celebrate’ right after which I had never particularly noticed before. Haha.

I’ve started cooking a little more since I actually have some time. They made this awesome bulgar wheat chili in NZ and somehow I semi reproduced it using couscous instead. It actually turned out really well! Yay! I also made meatballs for the first time and they were SO good. I know, nothing impressive or that exciting, but hey…I’m starting slow…

Fun Fact:
Australians shorten any words that can possibly be shortened and even some that shouldn’t be. For example, uni instead of university and ta for thanks. The latter might be primarily a British thing, but it took me forever to figure out what people were saying and why..haha.