Aside from my feelings about school holidays as a parent, it is interesting how much of a difference they make to the Wellington vibe. At university today, there were kids in the cafe, and in the hallways. And sitting here in my little shoebox of an office, I am frequently hearing kids’ voices echoing up [...]

Mmm, chocolately goodness!!
But my apologies to those on IE, I have just noticed the site is completely odd looking for you. I shall be adjusting it later, but right now it’s beer o’clock!

When you are babysitting a dog, well, a puppy really, and you leave it in the house alone for a couple of hours, and then when you come back, it has EATEN your couch. As in ripped the couch open, torn out the stuffing, and strewn it all over the room. Then you call the [...]

I am contemplating a reskin of Jemsweb as quite frankly I am utterly sick of it. Currently I am leaning towards an orange and dark brown look. I’m just mentioning this so no one gets a terrible shock if it suddenly appears, or if things are suddenly broken! Ooooh the suspense.

Had a most excellent time at Mighty Mighty last night attending the Cook Strait Social Club gig. Barry Saunders and Julia Deans both did amazing solo sets. Julia has such an incredible voice, it was bloody lovely to listen to. And of course the Samuel Flynn Scott set astounded and impressed! Believe it or not, [...]

In the last few weeks I have become totally addicted to Eclipse Mints. I always go for the peppermint flavour, spearmint is ok but has nowhere near the fresh almost painful minty tongue burn of the peppermint. Last week I made the error of buying the new orange flavour. For some reason I was convinced [...]

…check Facebook. Blogs are SO 2004.

Me & Jan are off to Melbourne tomorrow for our first childfree holiday ever! Thanks to my lovely mum we are getting 6 whole days of sleep-ins and going to the pub… of course we were smitten by a tummy bug three days ago and hoping all will be recovered for tomorrow. We have to [...]

I have just enrolled in the following two papers for next semester:
BMSC 241 – Heredity and Gene Expression
An introduction to the structure and behaviour of chromosomes, genes, DNA; and to the processes of heredity and the mechanisms by which genetic information is transmitted and expressed in humans and other animals. Some discussion of the genetics [...]

I had a terrifying experience on Friday with my first ever go in an MRI machine. I had this weird tingliness in my right arm and face a while ago, and the neurologist didn’t think it was anything serious, but put me on the waiting list for an MRI anyway. It must have been the [...]