Random song questions

I recieved this via email, and decided to try it... Its very funny, but a lot of it really doesnt make sense! I put my own comments in brackets at the end of each question.
The rules are:
1. Put your iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS.

IF SOMEONE SAYS 'ARE YOU OKAY' YOU SAY?

Push (Huh?)

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF?

Damn (Um, well maybe some of the time. I suppose it depends on the tone that you answer with!)

 

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?

End up alone (ummm?)

 

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?

Dune buggy (totally random, maybe?)

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?

Wanna be (hehe)

WHAT'S YOUR MOTTO?
Closing time (hehehehe)

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?

Last beautiful girl (oh yes please! In my dreams though)

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?

Dock of the bay (yeah whatever!)

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?

The drugs dont work (hahahahahaha!!!!!!)

WHAT IS 2 + 2?
Cambodia (also, ummm?)

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?

Holding my own (I dont actually have a best friend, only very good ones, so this question doesnt actually apply)

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?

Love on the rocks with no ice (um, yes, true!)

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?

Duck and run (umm?)

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?

I alone (Hahahaha, this could actually be so true!)

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?

Be somebody (I hope not... Not that I have anythign against the song, i just cant imagine dancing to it at a wedding!) 

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?

Lightening crashes (thats so creepy, it came up on The Snoo's answer for this Question too!)

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?

Shut down (true - sleeping is a major interest)

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR?

Misery (Also very true, although its not actually my biggest fear, although it is linked)

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?

Just like anyone (ummm?)

WHAT DO YOU WANT RIGHT NOW?

Bitter sweet symphony (hehehe!!)
 
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?

Stuck in a rut (?!? No, they are not!)

Club songs, puzzles and endorphins

I decided that this past weekend would be a good time to relax, so I took both Saturday and Sunday off (it was a long weekend, yesterday was a public holiday, and i decided that it would be devoted to making biscotti and working on my proposal). So on Saturday, when I didnt feel particularly inspired by the breakfasty-type things in the kitchen, I made chocolate muffins, which took me through to lunch. Then I had lunch (toasted sandwiches), and decided to build a puzzle. A big one. Yes, I may be slighlty old fashioned, but I actually like doing stuff like that. I suppose it did help that the puzzle I was building was a funny one - the theme was "just married", and was all about Tarzan and Jane getting married, and all the disasters along the way, which was very amusing. The puzzle took me about a day to complete, and by mid Sunday, I was feeling relaxed, satisfied and quite pleased with myself (it was a 1000 piece puzzle).

 

The endorphins came in yesterday night, when I persueded my brother to bring out the last remains of his jungle chocolate from South America. This chocolate is quite raw, with no milk or sugar added, and is absolutely amazing. He did add a bit of milk and sugar, and banana, and made it into the most amazing desert, which he served with some ice-cream. I was on such a high for the rest of the evening - I'm not entirely sure how I managed to get to sleep! Amidst all of this, I started thinking about explorers' songs... The irritating thing is that there are a few words that I just can't remember, so I'm just going to write down what I do remember and hope for the best - maybe it will go away!!!

 

 

We are explorers, a long way from home

We're highly disorganised, so leave us alone

We drink lots of....... (now I don't remember the words)

So lets go to the (insert name of river here), and have a good (something along the lines of aii...aiiiii.....)

 

We are explorers, explorers,

We live it up we live it up we live it up we do!

So pass the castle lager!

 

If the sea were are whisky and I were a duck,

I'd swim to the bottom and never come up

But the sea's not a whisky and I'm not a duck

So lets go to the (insert name of river here) and have a good f(aii...ai...aiiii etc)

 

We are explorers, explorers,

We live it up we live it up we live it up we do!

So pass the castle lager!

 

The end (of what I remember, anyway!)

Friday's Fungi Fun!

Yesterday started out with me feeling very bleak for two big reasons: The first was because I wasn't able to go to the Kruger, which would have been a really good break from absolutely everything, and the second (which incidentally was linked to the first), was that I would have to TA the CLS fungi lab. If I had gone away, I would have gotten Luke to fill in for me, and although I would have felt like a bit of a worm because then he would have pretty much spent his whole day in labs, it would have been a massive relief for me to get out of JHB.

Anyway, the going away bit didn't happen. Which meant that the fungi lab did happen. And I was so so so not keen for it, principally because of the thrilling subject matter, but also because the students had to a tut (in the lab) on scale and calculating scale and all things scale-like. Yay. Our pre-lab took us an hour... And made me feel much much worse about the lab - I have dont the same lab about four times over now - the guy who runs it doesnt change the subject matter from a first year level to a second year level, (so I did the same lab in both first and second year), and from year to year, then I TA'ed it last year, and now this year. How much more interesting could it get??? So Helen had to put up with much whinging from me about my un-keenness for the lab and TAing in general...

Then the lab actually arrived, and it actually felt good to see my students. And, surprise surprise, I really enjoyed the lab, even the stuffy scale tut. I hope my bay finally understands the concept of scale - I told then to do it over and over, and eventually it would get easier and faster, and I really hope they listened to me! Overall, on Friday, I rediscovered that I actually really do like teaching, and I think I'm going to miss that bay (even though I have had a few issues with them - mainly that they destroyed my confidence in my teaching ability).

All this lead to a thinking session about what I am actually going to do with the rest of my life - and maybe, just maybe, I might consider going into teaching... Apart from that, I have absolutely no idea what I am going to do - except for getting through the next two years!!! AARG!

All things, pleasant and unpleasant

This week has been decidedly unpleasant, although there have been some bright spots along the way. Firstly, I had a nasty confrontation type thing on Monday, which made Tuesday horrible. Then Wednesday was voting day, which was just a nasty, patchy day, where I didn't get anything done because I was waiting for the voting queue to get shorter as the day went (it didn't) - I had to go and stand in the 1.5 hour queue, which did not change size the entire day!!!!!!!  The yesterday, I spent in nervous anticipation of the evening, where a) I had to explain where the expensive dv was, and why it was broken, and b) get my 1* book signed off by the person who I had had the Monday confrontation with. It turned out that the dv issue was not so bad, but the book signing thing was just horrible. Anyone who knows The Snoo would know exactly how I would have described that bit of the evening!

 

The brighter spots have come in the form of having really good friends who have made the world seem a much better place. My lab mates (Luke and Helen) have had to endure many hours of ranting and upset-ness from me, and have (strangely enough) managed to a) remain sane, and b) not kill me... Then there are a few other people who have been awesome - mostly people who I met on the weekend, strangely enough! Now I'm not a huge fan of public appreciation (it makes me feel awkward when people do it to me), but I think that on this occasion, these people deserve a massive thank-you for making my life just that tiny bit more pleasant!

 

Now, for more nasty things - Im TAing (of all things) Fungi this afternoon. Fun! I would have gottne out of it by going to Kruger, but as usual, the plans fell apart at the eleventh hour last night... Sad, sad times!

Testing... one.. two... three!

Just wanted to test if this actually works :)

More about the diving trip!

Yesterday, I posted an entry about the awesomeness of the dives and the suckyness of the social side of the trip. Now I'm going to describe the epicness of the trip (well, it was for me, anyway!) Since I signed up on the trip, I had no idea how i was going to get from JHB to Sodwana and back - I had tried begging and pleading for lifts (obviously to the wrong people), but to no avail. Eventually I asked the trip organiser if anyone possibly had a space in their car, found a lift, then promptly changed my plans, so go down a day earlier, come back earlier, and do two of my dives on the Friday instead of the Sunday. Then I was put into a car with a manic driver, so I begged and pleaded with the trip organiser to come in his car, and luckily he agreed! After all of that, we left JHB at around 11pm on Thursday night, and drove through the night to get to Sodwana just before 7am the following morning, to dive at 8.30! I hardly got any sleep that night, which was why I was so surprised that I didn't develop narcoleptic tendencies on the weekend!

There were a few of us that day who hadn't done a sea dive yet, so we were paired up with more experienced divers. I was paired with Doug, and I think it made all the difference to the dive -I had such an amazing first dive, and was just blown away by everything. I did spend at least half of the dive with my hand on my power inflator/dump valve, just because I was paranoid about bumping into anything, but after I relaxed, the dive was just peachy! On my second dive I developed a headache, which was not so cool. Doug and I also managed to stressed our DM out by going exploring, and leaving the group! However, we did see some really cool fish and a snoozing turtle, which was just absolutely incredible! After the dive I really crashed, and my headache got super bad, which was not fun at all. So after we got back to triton, I had a bit to eat (which I didn't want), took painkillers, had a shower, and managed to pass out for just over an hour. After an hour, I was woken up by the level of noise present in the camp, from the rest of the 60 odd people coming from wits to dive...

The rest of the weekend went pretty well, except for fines meeting, which was just silly, and the fact that certain people thought I was going after a guy who is just way way too old for me (incidentally, I was not going after him, it was actually someone else!).The trip home was also quite epic - two cars broke down/had accidents, so we were phoning around, getting numbers and organising help/moral support! We left at 2pm, and only got home at around 11.30/12ish that night...The discussions in the car on the way home were mostly about us all turning into serial killers since we had all shared some personal info at some time or another... All in all, I have a lot of time for my car buddies :). I can't wait to see the people who I met this weekend again - I met some really fantastic people on the trip!

Diving, with no narcoleptic tendencies

Last weekend, I went to Sodwana bay to complete my 1* scuba diving course. I had been warned that I would get super-hungry, super tired, and would probably fall asleep on any vaguely comfortable surface, at any given time. None of the above happened to me - I hardly had an appetite, and hardly slept at all, the whole weekend!

I had the most awesome weekend -I really had a blast under the water. The colours were amazing, the fish blew me away and the little things like nudibranchs and crabs were what made the dives just so incredible. On four out of the five dives, we saw turtles - a truly incredible experience. We also saw an eel and rays on one of the dives, but for me, the highlights were the small things, like Christmas tree worms, the corals and fish, and other things, like cowrie shells (snails) and the nudibranchs.

On the flip side of the trip, the social bit was both completely horrible, and pretty cool. I met some awesome people who I would like to keep in contact with, but was also pretty much ignored by the guy who I had a very special past with. Needless to say that although I am very upset about it, he no longer has a place in my social circle, or at least until I have had some time to heal (seems like this will take a while). Unfortunately, this means that it will be difficult for me to interact with all the cool people who I met on the weekend, since we all belong to the same club as "the ex". Im not sure how I will get around this!

Proposal, continued...

My last (which was also my first) post left me feeling cold, with a nagging feeling that I was not doing enough work, which was entirely accurate. I had already missed my first deadline on the proposal that I'm supposed to be writing, and the second is looming. So I should be doing more work and less faffing, but somehow it just isn't happening! I can't blame anyone else but myself - I have spent time organising papers, writing blog posts, and generally distracting myself. The little work that I do manage to do looks good (to me, anyway), but its coming along slower than a slow snail! This may have something to do with my lab - I have discovered that it is exceeding cold, at odd times of the day. The coldness has been verified by my labmates, so I'm not going crazy (I don't think!).

On a more exciting note, I somehow managed to get back to my usual self. For the past few months I haven't been especially happy, but something has changed and now I have my groove back! YAY! I just hope it stays... So tonight, its a games night, then on monday I'm going diving, then in a few days' time, I will be leaving town to do my first sea dive! WHOOPEEE!

The start of my blogging career...

The difficulty in actually writing the first line of my very first blog is somewhat daunting, and nearly put me off. But I just did it, woohoo! People who have blogs keep telling me about the awesomeness of blogging, and today I decided to try it. "Clear the thoughts and cobwebs from the head", they say...



This year will be a very busy year for me - I'm starting my masters (yes, I'm working on mice), hopefully going hiking often, and then scuba diving! My first proper diving trip will be taking place in just over a week's time, and I'm so excited about it, I really cant wait! My only problem is that I just need to get there... So over the next week I will be going round to everyone I know to beg for a lift, and I really really hope someone will oblige!