Just want to wish everyone, wherever you are, and whomever you're with, a very Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays. Hope y'all have a wonderful day :)
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~*~Random Ramblings and Rants~*~
Believe to Understand
28 September 2006 @ 01:42 pm
11 August 2006 @ 06:01 pm
Ugh, have been feeling awful most of this week.
I actually ended up in hospital on Tuesday night, because I couldn't stop throwing up. Let me tell you, every half an hour for three hours really isn't pleasant. Luckily they gave me a shot to stop it, because by then I was feeling really, really awful. I ended up in the waiting room for four hours, and even after that they told me I still might have to wait another two hours before I saw a doctor, and since I felt fine I just left. Gotta love our healthcare system sometimes.
I'm feeling better, at least my supervisor has told me I no longer look like death, which is encouraging. Although now I'm still coughing all the time, and I'm losing my voice. I have to be at uni all weekend as well, but as long as I don't have to speak to anyone I'll probably be OK.
Hope everyone who's flying at the moment gets where they're going safely.
I actually ended up in hospital on Tuesday night, because I couldn't stop throwing up. Let me tell you, every half an hour for three hours really isn't pleasant. Luckily they gave me a shot to stop it, because by then I was feeling really, really awful. I ended up in the waiting room for four hours, and even after that they told me I still might have to wait another two hours before I saw a doctor, and since I felt fine I just left. Gotta love our healthcare system sometimes.
I'm feeling better, at least my supervisor has told me I no longer look like death, which is encouraging. Although now I'm still coughing all the time, and I'm losing my voice. I have to be at uni all weekend as well, but as long as I don't have to speak to anyone I'll probably be OK.
Hope everyone who's flying at the moment gets where they're going safely.
06 August 2006 @ 06:40 pm
Apologies, I know I promised a pic!spam, but I've been SO busy this week. So I will definitely try and post the pics tomorrow. But I must wish a very
Happy Birthday to the wonderful![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
marcasite
Hope you had a great day :)
Happy Birthday to the wonderful
marcasiteHope you had a great day :)
tired24 April 2006 @ 09:13 pm
Thanks to everyone for their good wishes, I'm sure they helped. I dried out the computer all weekend, and this afternoon, to my great joy it booted up just fine. *does happy dance* And oddly it now has a lovely odour, since the tea I spilled was strawberry and mango.
It also looks like I got accepted to go to the conference in Colorado. It hasn't been finalised, but the organiser e mailed me, so everything's looking good. *is excited*
It also looks like I got accepted to go to the conference in Colorado. It hasn't been finalised, but the organiser e mailed me, so everything's looking good. *is excited*
Current Mood: 
ecstatic
ecstaticCurrent Music: Cold Case on the TV
20 April 2006 @ 04:45 pm
Me and computers really don't get along. After spilling lemonade on my last laptop I finally broke it by dropping it. From about 5 feet in the air. And no, not on purpose.
I got a new shiny laptop that I use both at uni and home, i.e. it has all my experimental data, as well as all my music, TV shows etc. So today I felt that just to shake things up I would pour a whole cup of tea onto it.
Yep, *insert 'I am an idiot' here*.
I'm under instruction from the IT guys not to turn it on until Monday to make sure it's fully dried out, then it's fingers crossed as to whether or not it will actually turn on. So I'm without a computer until Monday.
I should be able to use someone elses at uni, but I don't know what I'm going to do all weekend. *is already in computer withdrawl*
I got a new shiny laptop that I use both at uni and home, i.e. it has all my experimental data, as well as all my music, TV shows etc. So today I felt that just to shake things up I would pour a whole cup of tea onto it.
Yep, *insert 'I am an idiot' here*.
I'm under instruction from the IT guys not to turn it on until Monday to make sure it's fully dried out, then it's fingers crossed as to whether or not it will actually turn on. So I'm without a computer until Monday.
I should be able to use someone elses at uni, but I don't know what I'm going to do all weekend. *is already in computer withdrawl*
Current Mood: 
angry
angryCurrent Music: Computers humming
07 April 2006 @ 08:57 pm
I think I want to die.
I taught for 7 hours on Monday
I taught for 3 hours on Tuesday, and did 6 hours of experiments
I taught for 3 hours on Wednesday and did 4 hours of experiments
I taught 4 hours on Thursday and did 2 hours of experiments.
I did 4 hours of experiments today (Friday) and just couldn't take it anymore. I just wanted to crawl under my doona and not come out for a week.
Did I mention I have to give 7 tutorials next week?...............And teach and do experiments.
Kill me now. cutting_rm_flr I am a bad friend, I haven't even read chapter 3 yet *is shamed*
Current Mood: 
discontent
discontentCurrent Music: Football on the TV
04 April 2006 @ 01:22 pm
Cause I got tagged by marcasite and oddlyfamiliar, and this sounded kinda fun.
Pick 10 of your favorite movie, book and other quotes and post them in your journal
As people guess them, cross them off and credit who guessed them.
Tag 5 people to do the meme.
NB - These are all TV quotes - except one!
ETA: Just one lone quote left - this one is for any Billy Petersen fans!
Current Mood: 
contemplative
contemplativeCurrent Music: Air conditioner
02 February 2006 @ 11:28 am
A semi-meme inspired by idreamedmusic's list of top ten CSI eps. So here are mine.
- Butterflied (so many reasons!)
- Hunger Artist (symmetry! - and I love Grissom's voice over at the end)
- Scooba-Doobie-Doo (chalk! and I like the whole scuba-diver in a tree story too)
- Nesting Dolls (Sara-backstory - and the first CSI I saw in the US!)
- Homebodies (Very sad ep - a really heavy casefile, but one that made you really feel for the victim - the last scene: heartbreaking)
- Committed (Liked the setting - very creepy, even if the whole clay-pot-conversation was a bit far fetched)
- Jackpot (Grissom+jeans=a good hour of TV)
- Bloodlines (another sad ep - the whole concept that blindly following the evidence can result in tragedy. Also the last scene)
- Play with Fire ('honey - this doesn't look good'. Plus a big explosion is always entertaining).
- Lady Heather's Box (I'm not afraid to admit I liked this ep - and I'm by no means a G/LH shipper).
Honourable mentions.....Blood Drops, Chaos Theory (as IDM said - cool casefile), IE ('pin me down') and SL&L (I'm sure there's more!)
Current Mood: pensive
pensiveCurrent Music: Catatonia - Road Rage
19 January 2006 @ 08:10 pm
It was my first week back in the lab last week, after three weeks off over xmas, and to put it mildly, it was a complete and unmitigated disaster. I managed to screw up my experiment not once, but three times. And this Monday I also managed to break a rather expensive piece of equipment - worse because that particular piece of equipment belongs to another lab.
After that start to the week (?year), my morale was (understandably) pretty low. Then I realised that it has been a year since I gave my paper to my supervisor to look over/edit. My supervisor is pretty laid back, and most of the time I can handle that. He leaves me to my own devices, and lets me do the research I want. But it doesn't really improve my desire to do the work when it has been a year, and he still hasn't managed to put my paper together. He often tells me he feels guilty about it, but that's not really going to result in my paper being finished.
It doesn't really help that I'm the only person in the lab at the moment, so it's quiet and lonely, and I really just don't have any desire to be there. To that end, I ended up staying home today, and I felt a hell of a lot better for it. I did some cooking (something I never get to do when I spend 10+ hours a day in the lab) caught up on reading some fic, and generally relaxed. Now I think I'm ready to go and do some work - and I'd better be, I've only got the best part of a week to put a conference poster together. Eep *is scared*
After that start to the week (?year), my morale was (understandably) pretty low. Then I realised that it has been a year since I gave my paper to my supervisor to look over/edit. My supervisor is pretty laid back, and most of the time I can handle that. He leaves me to my own devices, and lets me do the research I want. But it doesn't really improve my desire to do the work when it has been a year, and he still hasn't managed to put my paper together. He often tells me he feels guilty about it, but that's not really going to result in my paper being finished.
It doesn't really help that I'm the only person in the lab at the moment, so it's quiet and lonely, and I really just don't have any desire to be there. To that end, I ended up staying home today, and I felt a hell of a lot better for it. I did some cooking (something I never get to do when I spend 10+ hours a day in the lab) caught up on reading some fic, and generally relaxed. Now I think I'm ready to go and do some work - and I'd better be, I've only got the best part of a week to put a conference poster together. Eep *is scared*
Current Mood: 
indifferent
indifferentCurrent Music: Australian Open tennis on the TV
05 December 2005 @ 11:44 am
Tagged by both idreamedmusic and velocityofsound
Ground rules: The first player of this "game" starts with the topic "Five Weird Habits of Yourself" and the people who get tagged need to then write a LJ entry about their five quirky little habits as well as state the rules of this game clearly. In the end, you need to list the next five people who you want to tag.
Let the madness begin....
- Whenever there's a character on a TV show that I don't like, I have a tendency to throw socks at the TV. I used to do it whenever the Cigarette Smoking Man would appear of X files, these days it's more likely to be at the Spork from CSI. It may have possibly happened when Vogler frequented House.
- I often have conversations with my cat when no one else is around.
- I have a complete and utter dislike for repetetive high pitched noises. Like it someone forgets to turn off their timer in the lab, or if a car or house alarm goes off for more than about ten seconds, I go a little mental.
- I sit on chairs in strange ways. Especially more comfortable chairs, where I tend to sit side-on, with my legs either squished up, or hanging over the end.
- If I eat olives, I tend to eat a whole jars worth at a time.
I tag....
laura27md , marcasite, puppytraining, scullyseviltwin and starhawk2005Current Mood: pensive
pensiveCurrent Music: air conditioning
03 December 2005 @ 11:01 am
First up, a very Happy Birthday to the wonderful starhawk2005. Hope you had a wonderful day *sends chocolate cake and good wishes*
Also, why won't LJ send me comment notification e mails??? *kicks LJ*</span>
Getting in on the whole spirit of christmas deal, if anyone would like a christmas card from me, all the way from Australia, drop me an e mail at lessa_x@hotmail.com.</span>
Current Mood: 
awake
awakeCurrent Music: Madonna - Hung up
27 October 2005 @ 10:56 am
Nabbed from laura27md. Good to know I passed, but that was hard. It's been a long time since I've done that much math!
laura27md. Good to know I passed, but that was hard. It's been a long time since I've done that much math!| You Passed 8th Grade Math |
 Congratulations, you got 9/10 correct! |
Current Mood: 
hungry
hungryCurrent Music: the air conditioner
05 October 2005 @ 01:38 pm
As tagged by marcasite
- Good (vegetarian) food
- When an experiment actually works
- A free weekend
- Sleeping in
- Dinner and a movie with my best friend
- CSI or House marathons (love my DVD's)
- Good fanfic (CSI or House)
- My cat
- IM conversations
- When a student actually gets something I explain to them.
Tagging anyone on my f-list who hasn't done this yet.
Current Mood: contemplative
contemplativeCurrent Music: the air conditioner
28 September 2005 @ 03:46 pm
Just wishing laura27md a very Happy Birthday. Hope you had a great day 
laura27md a very Happy Birthday. Hope you had a great day Current Mood: happy
happyCurrent Music: people talking and typing
23 September 2005 @ 09:51 pm
I had a really good time tonight. I asked everyone in my lab to come out with me for a birthday dinner. A couple of the girls aren't big on drinking, so I figured dinner was a good compromise. Of course this one girl, who I really dislike, couldn't even be bothered attending, even though I went to her birthday drinks and I didn't know anybody there. She did the same thing for another guy in our lab's farewell drinks, so I don't take these things personal anymore. Anyways, my supervisor had a prior dinner engagement, but he still came for pre-dinner drinks, then we all went out for thai. It was just a nice night of conversation, wine and friends. Made my birthday seem worth celebrating.
Thanks to </a></b></a>starhawk2005 and </a></b></a>marcasite for the birthday wishes too :)
Thanks to </a></b></a>
starhawk2005 and </a></b></a>marcasite for the birthday wishes too :)Current Mood: happy
happyCurrent Music: complete silence
15 September 2005 @ 07:51 pm
Ugh I feel awful. Well actually I'm feeling better than I did earlier in the week. I have an awful flu which basically left me bedridden Monday and Tuesday. I had to drag myself into uni yesterday to give a tutorial, and let me tell you there is nothing worse than trying to teach when you feel like crap. To make matters worse it was a chalkboard, so that just made me cough. I think I'm getting over the worst of it, I acually put in a full days work at uni, and dídn't feel too bad. Alas the elevators decided to break - yep BOTH of then - so it meant I spent most of the day trudging up and down the stairs.
At least I'm getting my new computer tomorrow (hurrah) as it would probably cost more to get my old dinosaur of a lap-top repaired than it's worth. I've kinda been putting off getting a computer, so maybe me breaking my old one was a sign. Or maybe I'm just clumsy ;)
And I have the first episode of season 2 House sitting on my computer waiting to be watched, so the end of the week isn't looking too bad at all.
At least I'm getting my new computer tomorrow (hurrah) as it would probably cost more to get my old dinosaur of a lap-top repaired than it's worth. I've kinda been putting off getting a computer, so maybe me breaking my old one was a sign. Or maybe I'm just clumsy ;)
And I have the first episode of season 2 House sitting on my computer waiting to be watched, so the end of the week isn't looking too bad at all.
Current Mood: sick
sickCurrent Music: the washing machine
10 September 2005 @ 12:01 am
I am incredibly annoyed. I was carrying my laptop from my bedroom into the lounge room when the cord caught on this stupid chest thing in the (very narrow) hallway, and the laptop went flying out of my hands. And now it won't even start. grr. I had heaps of fanfic on it, but at least all my work data is on my work computer, and backed up on my iPod. Stil. I'm really annoyed. I didn't want to pay for a new computer just now, but it seems like I have no choice, otherwise I won't have a computer at home, and that just won't do, especially since I'm getting harrassed by the IT department for using too much internet time at work as it is. Lets hope the computer man can fix it tomorrow *crosses fingers*
On a better note, I actually had a decent talk to one of the other PhD students in my lab - who is so moody you have to pick the right day to approach her otherwise you get your head bitten off - and as a result I may have something to do for the next couple of weeks that may be useful to my PhD, and is not relatively difficult.
On a better note, I actually had a decent talk to one of the other PhD students in my lab - who is so moody you have to pick the right day to approach her otherwise you get your head bitten off - and as a result I may have something to do for the next couple of weeks that may be useful to my PhD, and is not relatively difficult.
Current Mood: annoyed
annoyedCurrent Music: 5th Ashes test on the TV
08 September 2005 @ 03:14 pm
I had to laugh yesterday when a couple of girls came up to me all excited and asked me where I got my CSI singlet from. It's just a black singlet with "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Las Vegas" on it. They were very disappointed when I said Las Vegas! Hehehe. I don't think I've ever seen a CSI shirt in Australia.
And for Laura, a picture of my cat Muss in the sink
She loves all things water related. She can play with a dish of water in the bath all afternoon until she knocks it over. Then she follows the water until it goes down the drain, then looks very disappointed, so the whole process has to be repeated.
And for Laura, a picture of my cat Muss in the sink
She loves all things water related. She can play with a dish of water in the bath all afternoon until she knocks it over. Then she follows the water until it goes down the drain, then looks very disappointed, so the whole process has to be repeated.
Current Mood: 
bouncy
bouncyCurrent Music: Cat Power - Salty Dog
08 September 2005 @ 08:06 am
This is gonna have to be quick, my cat is meowing at me, and I have about fifteen minutes before I have to get ready for work. And my cat is now sitting on my lap - and it's kinda hard to type with a cat sitting on you.
This week is actually looking better. I finally finished all my marking. I added all my stats up, and it worked out I marked 172 reports! *shudders* which took me a grand total of 44 hours! And I wrote my tutorials for next week, so I actually got to do some real experimental work for the first time in a couple of weeks. One set of tutorials to write, then I might, have time to get my research going again.
Our honours girls only have about 5 weeks to go before they hand in their theses, so they're starting to get a bit freaked out. I had to calm one of them down yesterday because she worked herself into a bit of a frenzy thinking all of her research was useless (which it's not). Plus as they're running out of time, all the equipment is getting booked out like crazy. I can't get on one machine for another 2 weeks!
This week is actually looking better. I finally finished all my marking. I added all my stats up, and it worked out I marked 172 reports! *shudders* which took me a grand total of 44 hours! And I wrote my tutorials for next week, so I actually got to do some real experimental work for the first time in a couple of weeks. One set of tutorials to write, then I might, have time to get my research going again.
Our honours girls only have about 5 weeks to go before they hand in their theses, so they're starting to get a bit freaked out. I had to calm one of them down yesterday because she worked herself into a bit of a frenzy thinking all of her research was useless (which it's not). Plus as they're running out of time, all the equipment is getting booked out like crazy. I can't get on one machine for another 2 weeks!
Current Mood: 
accomplished
accomplishedCurrent Music: John Butler Trio - Zebra