Today I have officially started my doctorate. Well it feels like it anyway since I now have a whole new body of work that isn’t related to my comet work in any way.
I’m looking at stellar evolutionary tracks with the aim of tying these to planet formation.
haha good morning! thanks to all who came to my party last night, and thanks to the people who gave me gifts.
I went to the Roots Manuva concert afterwards, and it was pretty good. Respect to Ewan who got himself on stage and jumped around, and then surfed his way towards the back. I think Canberra needs a better concert venue though, the split level roof at ANU bar makes for a very loud an unintelligble space.
I have also survived my first AFL grand final, it wasn’t much of a game until the final quarter, when I was in the kitchen making pizza and bread rolls. oh well
hoo boy it’s late, but never walk home when you live in canberra unless you live in the inner city. it is now 3am and it’s taken me since 1:30 to get here after the concert (see later post). i waved half heartedly at a few taxis, but my small town nz upbringing has finally caught up with me. gone are the days of walking home in half an hour (or less), and welcome to the time of the taxi.
well another exciting weekend has passed. i figure if i keep trying to put in entries documenting what i did each week i’ll be able to look back and convince myself i haven’t wasted my life.
i finally bought an ipod, and can now back up my computer without having to exclude the pictures and other stuff. maybe it’ll excite me into riding my bike more too.
on saturday we watched the nz election on tv. the most exciting parts were when nobody won (just like in germany), peter dunne opened his victory speech by complaining about the media coverage, and some guy stole a plane and threatened to fly it into the skytower in auckland, classic.
if you’ve seen the news about there being a lot less comets these days and wondered what all the fuss was about, you can go have a look at Paul’s web page.
my own work will be along before xmas (or else!)
well what can I say? last night (saturday 10th) Nick, Dan, Se Heon and I went to Capital Pro Wrestling’s ‘No Limits’ show in Jamison. We were a little apprehensive about the venue, it being a suburban pub and all, but it appears to just be a place where no-one goes to watch NRL finals.
Having paid our $10 we wandered in and very nearly doubled the crowd. The ring dominated the venue, with the top rope being almost as high as the roof. There were several calls of ‘watch your head’ during the evening.
There were five fights and several highlights. The first was the acrobatic antics of ‘Lightning Luke’, with many backflips. Off the top rope, off a table, and just off the ground as he battled the Warlock (Wooslock to some). The second was the unexpected appearance of Shane ‘Angel’ Walsh (so unexpected that Nick missed it because he was in the bathroom) with a chair to the back of Lightning Luke as he had the Wooslock in a death defying shoulder-ride leg-lock thing. The ‘future of CPW’ is obviously a bad dude…
Other highlights include the destruction of multiple baking trays, wet floor signs, one table of death, and some pieces of gib. The night ended with a double knock out due to simultaneous chair hits by ‘Rex’ and ‘Crofty the Kambah Klepto’. We definitely had a laugh and got our ten bucks worth of wrestling and rock n roll, cheers Shane.
yeah so I’ve set this up so i can keep some kind of diary about my time in Aussie and further afield, and cos i wanted to see if i could do it. apparently i can since it works right?
i don’t imagine too much posting will go on just yet, but keep an eye… today Anna put snow pics from the other week on her website here if you want to see Stromlo with snow on it.
A hint for looking at stuff like this with firefox, get the ‘all-in-one’ mouse gestures and you can set up a gesture to increment a number in file names, thus making it easy to look at directories of pictures off digital cameras.
yeah so here it is, i don’t quite know how to work it yet…or how to change the crappy image at the top
