The End: Back Home Again

I made it back to new York and at home. Let's talk about the journey. Sydney to LAX. I was in a middle seat. YAY. One side was a girl with a few extra kilos, and the other looked like some large ex rugby player. So plenty of room right. Did I mention that a little kid kicking my seat throughout the whole ride. I just watched a ton of movies, like The Mulpets (still in love with Amy Adams) Johnny English Reborn, A Fish Called Wanda, tons of TV. Survived it From LAX I then caught the flight to JFK. Slept through most of it, ignoring the upset child four seats away. Apparently it couldnt not sit in its father' lap without crying. We landed without any problems, then sat on the runway for thirty minutes. YAY. Then got to baggage claim. It got jammed )possibly due in small part to my bag. Got that and finally got home. Things have changed. My mom claimed a new room as her secret lair (office/study), someone tried to clean my room, which was horrible! Anyway back home, so the blog is done. Thanks for reading. I have a lot of great memories and new friends. It's been awesome Bye

Longest Post Ever, Diving Abridged

Seriously this is the short version of my diving Day 1: I got up around 5:30 or half five as they say here. I was the first picked up in our van. Our driver was named Rocky, a German? woman, at least she taught the course in German. They brought us to the dive shop and had people check their bags get gear, etc. then we got on a boat. We eventually got on to the boat, then we were introduced to the crew and watched a video on safety. I was trying to play the game Spot the Aussie. It was very difficult, the largest group was of British decent, with one guy who sounded exactly like Wallace of Wallace and Gromit. There was also a Dutch contingent, and a Swiss family. The ride out to the first site was about three hours. We had a briefing about it and then hopped in. Five of us elected to not go with a leader. We saw sharks, and tons of fish, but sharks. Found Nemo on the second dive, a ray on the third dive, and then there was the night dive. Again five people elected to not go with a leader. They let me lead for some reason...saw a shark and moray right off the bat...then I kind of went over the reef than around it......whoops. People were a little annoyed. Throughout the day I felt progressively worse. The first dive had killed my ears a bit, and by the end I was sure I would pop and eardrum and not be able to fly home. Early bedtime due to exhaustion of four dives in a day, about twice that of a normal dive day Day 2: Early wake up, but I felt miraculously healed from the sleep. There was something absurd and fantastic on every dive, but I think the highlight would be swimming with a turtle. It was very large and essentially just ignored me as I swam with it for a minute or two. Another cool thing was the night dive. We were looking for this giant turtle, which we did not find. At one point I kicked the sand, and looked down to see a thin eel burying itself in the ground. I later found out it was, appropriately for Australia, called the convict eel. I so saw a group of razorfish, which are cool in the fact that they swim vertically and moved as a group, would get scared as a group, would probably do everything as a group. Finally, right before our ascent, we saw a parrotfish in a bubble. Parrotfish form a mucus bubble around themselves when they sleep which holds in their scent do they can't be found. I had never seen one before, it was awesome. Even earlier bed time due to more exhaustion from another four dive day Day 3: Early morning, and then what I refer to as the dawn dive. We saw the biggest parrotfish imaginable, along with a couple sharks that hadn't woken up yet. I also kind of kept getting a little too close and scaring annoying them. They tended to be white-tip reef sharks, not dangerous, but still quite cool. Of course there were tons of other cool fish and such,  just like in every other dive. On the next and last two dives the big things were the enormous turtles that essentially just ignored us or tried to swim away. Right at the end of the last dive, boom giant turtle. Nice way to end the last dive. Then we had to travel back...you could say it was a bit of a bumpy ride. That would be an understatement. One instructor (Rocky) went to bed before it even started because she knew otherwise she would get sick. James, the cook, was taking inventory and a stack of bowls fell and broke. The fridge with all the soda burst open and there were cans all over place. This was despite a bungee chord keeping it closed. Also the two little Swedish girls had to run to the back of the boat. I felt a little bad for them. Another guy literally turned green. I went up to the top of the boat so I could enjoy the rollercoaster to the fullest. Twas fun. Got dropped off, ended up back at the dive shop and then was finally dropped off at hotel. My hair was in such bad condition after 8+ hours of saltwater in three days with no real showers, that I used conditioner, yes conditioner. Don't be alarmed, I survived. Now it's time to start to travel home. Sydney tomorrow, home the next "day"

Sad Times

Sigh, this gets harder to write as I've moved from an iPad to an iPhone as my tool of typing. I have a few days to catch up on. The is full day two in country Victoria. We didn't really have any plans, but Jes' mom suggested that we go see a movie. We went to see Brave. I was a bit worried it wouldn't be that good, a bit of a miss. I was wrong, it was pretty fantastic. Very funny and well done. Even the less Disney crazed Nason enjoyed it. That was the major event of the day, the rest was spent relaxing and wasting time. We also watched episode 3 of Hamish and Andy's Euro gap year. I cannot recommend it highly enough, nor the American gap year. Very silly.
The next day was very sad, very very sad. I left Castlemaine by train. I want to go diving, but it's sad to leave people you won't see for a long time. So two flights: Melbourne to Brisbane, on which the Melbourne Footy team accompanied us. And then Briabane to Cairns, same flight. I also sat next to the same people of both flight. We didn't talk...I'm not good at meeting new people in planes and trains. Got to hotel, which was ok, not as nice as I had hoped. Probably should have stayed at a Holiday Inn. I just plan not to spend too much time there, more exploring. For example, I went to the night market last night, similar to the night market anywhere, only no real haggling. Today is for exploring, then tomorrow morning diving begins.
Also Jes officially has no horses, I was at her place for days and didn't see them, thus they do not exist

We're Going to the Zoo

Jason's method of trying to indicate that I do not really study real classes is cheering "we're going to the zoo" accompanied by excited hand gestures. For some reason he thought I would be ashamed or upset by this, that's obviously completely erronious. So we went to the zoo today. We being Jes, Jason, Me, and the Twins. It was quite entertaining, and I think that we saw literally every animal in the zoo, including the lions twice. Yes there were a bunch of useless children running around making annoying noises, accompanied by even more useless parents. Still, other than judging them, we were able to deal with them unscathed. Lets think about some highlights. I finally saw a platypus. It was pretty dark because they're nocturnal, so all my attempted photos came out absolutely useless. We pet a friendly wombat, though it was not a wild one. It did look like it was trying to escape, but it gave up. Plus it wasn't small enough for us to smuggle it out. The small cats also decided to show us a lot of teeth, possibly hissing at us, when we went past the first railing and right up to the cage. It did make for a good picture though. There was a point at which I was left responsible for Claire because we were both looking at something for too long. It took ages and a phonecall to regroup. Also the otters were adorable. Anyway, yay animals After dinner we watched How to Train your Dragon (not in 3D which I still must do). It was pretty good, but I was a little distracted by the voice actors. Mainly I didn't like a number of them, but they didn't take away from it and it was a lot of fun. I did like the Norse Mythology references. More Fun Times In other news, the potentially evil cat ended up on my lap during the movie. While it was cute, it was very limiting. It also had a tendency to dig its claws into my pant legs, dangerously close to breaking skin. Then I got up and before I sat back down the chair was claimed. Jason asked me how it felt to be whipped by a cat

Leaving Fisher Forever?

Today I left Fisher, Utas, and Tasmania as a whole. I am now lying on a couch in Jes' house watching Hamish and Andy with Jes and Jason. I woke up early today, my head not feeling quite perfect after a night out with the Pharmy Army at Soho. The packing and cleaning took a while. This was literally the fist time I had vaccuumed my room in over four months. Of course Admin closed at the second I wanted to check out, but we worked around it. I found that there were ten balloons still clinging to life under my bed. I mercilously popped all of them. So long memories and pranks. Zander was sitting in the common room and was given lots of things that I wasn't bringing along. Finally everything was done, breakfast/lunch was eaten (cake and apple-juice). Then there were the goodbyes, some of which have been occuring over the past few days, some of which have not happened at all cough cough Bruce, Smithy, Shani, etc. And that was it. Drove off to the airport and then got on a plane. Plane was not exciting, tried to sleep but didn't really succeed. Got off the plane, got on a bus, then got subway and went on a train (not the subway). Jes, who was my lovely traveling companion for the day, was so interested in meeting our companions onthe train, she sleep kicked some guys chair. Unfortunately he turned out to be a grumpy old man who proceeded to evil eye us at every opportunity. Our talking and muttering about him may have added to that. Otherwise it was a rather uneventful ride. We got picked up by Jason and the rest of Jes' family. Antics have ensued. Jes has two cats. Jason says they are evil, i'm inclined to agree. She also has three siblings, they may or may not be evil as well. Tomorrow to the zoo, hopefully lots of fun stories for fun check out: http://textfromdog.tumblr.com/ also, technically TZ in Tas is done because i'm not in Tassie anymore, but I'll keep blogging until I get home

Fun with Exams

Just because exams seem to be the most horrible time ever created, one in which many students break down into little sobbing balls of despair, doesn't mean that you can't have a little fun with them. I certainly tried to, with some coaxing and encouragement on the part of the pharmy army
On my animals exam we had the question of why the Strong-billed Honey Eater (enedemic to tasmania) had evolved to have a beak designed for ripping and probing bark of eucalyptice trees for food rather feeding in the foliage as similar species on the mainland do. Actual answer: no Tree Creepers in Tassie, on the mainland they rip and probe the bark. their abscene from Tassie leaves an open niche. I then wrote after the exam under a section clearly indicated: for your enjoyment do not mark: it is because of the koalas. Koalas like Eucalyptice trees and get really pissed off when anything else tries to damage or feed from them. During the 45 minute a day they are awake, the koalas throw nuts and small branches at the honey-eaters, effectively stopping them from being able to tear and probe. Because there are no Koalas in Tassie, they can damage the trees. We also had a question about the yearly life cycle of an echidna. i wrote: they sleep, and then they sleep around.
In my plants exam earlier today i was talking about bacteria and plants working in symbiosis. i explained that most bacteria are bad for plants and that letting them enter the plant is bad. I went on to say "it was like letting the proverbial bull into the teashop, only imagine this bull had been insulted by a teapot in its youth and had then sworn a vendetta against all similar dining ware." It's a little forced, but I enjoyed writing it so stop complaining.
I also drew a diargram about flowering and had to draw a flower in it. Part of the diagram was rather unrecognizable so I drew an arrow and indicated that it was a "pretty flower."
So exams aren't complete toture...always

My New Haircut

I finished my exams today and decided to celebrate by relaxing. Unlike many people this did not involve alcohol. I finally got a haircut. I have not had a haircut in five months. The last time I did it was the infamous incident in which an unprepared Elsa started cutting my hair without the implements to finish. Jon Ryss had to clean up the mess. So lets tell this story
Those looking at me may assume that I was attacked by a pair of scissors. That is pretty close to what happened. The hair is certainly shorter, but it may not be even. Jes had volunteered ages ago to preform the duties, so I politely obliged. As the haircut went on my confidence started to dwindle. It was mainly because of comments like this: "you can show Jason and then he'll let me cut his hair. He says he'd rather have his dad sheer him." "I've cut my horses hair, Ziggy's, and my cats." "Your hair is really think here so I can't tell if I'm cutting it or skin." "After some cuts I feel like 'wow, there's a lot of skin'" and her final pronouncement on it, "its not THAT bad." She's right, its not that bad. Certainly much better than having curly hair. No one will even notice that its uneven in a week or two...I hope

Another Adventure or Two

I went running again yesterday, and that in itself is always an adventure. I went back to nutgrove and stopped to watch the birds, definitely not because I was wanted a break. I was staring at the corellas and rosellas and this guy was changing his tire. He struck up a conversation about how incredible and beautiful the animals were, and I pretended not to know tons about birds and bird watching to be polite. The conversation actually ended up moving on to how humans were going to wipe themselves off the planet earth. There was a method connecting the two topics, but i don't really remember what it was. Anyway, that made it an interesting run, and then i saw another cool bird on the way back, Nick Bird.
Today was my first exam and last night I was done studying, so Jes turned on a disney documentary on African Cats narrated by Samuel Jackson. it was awesome. then the credits came on and it was hilarious. it put up little videos of animals and had captions saying their role in the movie production. Secretary Bird: script editor, Black Rhino: security. Stealer of our Hearts: baby elephant. There were many more, it was awesome. Good way to decompress before an exam.
I passed the exam, of that I have no doubt. I knew the answers to all the questions, though the first one was a bit sketchy and I got the diet of the bettong partially incorrect. The rest was pretty simple, I had studied enough yay. Then I became a bum for the rest of the day. it is as good as it sounds

Catching Up a Bit

I haven't checked in a while for a couple reasons. no computer, not too much has actually happened, and mostly i'm just lazy.
Let's get this out of the way. I hereby pronounce Jason the winner of the prank war. Balloons were the last and greatest prank. there, i said it, let's move on
Flaming Red Frogs. Let me explain that phrase, the Red Frogs were a group that came in during the beggining on reading week and made us pancakes for dinner. It. Was. AWESOME. they came in distracted us and gave us food. How could anyone ever complain about that. Wait a minute, there is one thing I can complain about. The second day they came a few of us where in the common room when they arrived. They started to turn on all their things and the ever prepared fire warden Jes Short said, "make sure you watch out for the smoke detector." before she finished the sentence the fire alarm went off. We still had to stand outside and wait for the fire department. Then we had pancakes. The first day we were there Robin Hood Men in Tights was playing and I have a depressing confession. Tess and Lisa actually new the movie better than I did. I never thought I would say that about someone not in my family, but hats off to then. Anyway, as always it was hilarious, better than Silver Brumby or Silver Bambi, whatever Jes made us watch before it. I just started watching mel brooks clips on youtube, i may be here a while. anyway, i've also booked everything to travel around after school, can't wait. i'll also be done with exams, yay. as of now i haven't started yet.
Also I'm back to running. Not as much as mid season in shape, but more than nothing. Today on my run I stopped about halfway in to do some bird watching. I saw a bunch of eastern rosellas and heard sqwauking from across a field. i ran over to investigate/see the cockatoos i was sure were there. I was mistaken, instead I found long-billed corellas. This was cool because i had never seen them in the wild before. Also a couple had flipped upside down on a branch and where just hanging and making noise. it was quite silly. I had heard of galah's doing that but never seen it. now i have. I also saw a Galah, but he was just sitting around all fluffed up.
by the way congrats to everyone who graduated, both from Hackley and Bowdoin.

Fire!!!

It should come as a shock that a place filled withef adults should have trouble with people not knowing how to use a microwave. Sadly, at this point it is all but expected. Sunday night I was taking a long, pleasant shower, when I herd the faint rings of the fire alarm. I was done showering, I needed another few minutes, but no I had troop back to my room and get some clothes to face the damp dark night. Paddy and James had a performance that night and after they returned a number of people decided to drink a lot in Schmidty's too (apparently he was only informed when they invaded his room). There are four fire wardens in Fisher. A floor Kat: drunk, B floor: Schmidt also intoxicated, C floor: Jes asleep but ready to don her helmet, D floor: Hayley not at Fisher. So a nice safe environment right? When I left the shower and walked down the hall, I found myself shrouded a mysterious mist, adding excitement and adventure to the night. What that previous sentence means is that the hall was filled with smoke. When they let us back in the building, later investigation showed that the C floor microwave was destroyed. Some genius had decided it was a good idea to put a plastic bowl of soup with bread in the microwave and leave it on for a couple of hours. The bread was a stick of charcoal that had melted the side of the bowl. Luckily nothing spilled because all the liquid ha evaporated. There's a camera in the kitchen so the villains will be caught...I have little pity, they ruined my shower!

Late Night Antics

There were a few barrels this Friday evening. I chose not to attend, citing killing myself last weekend, the weather, and really any other excuse I could think of. This did not mean I went to bed early or anything, of course not. That would be unthinkable. With that in mind I was up and about when some people started to trickle back in...drunk. There was some comedy, Ira and I played super smash and he did suprisingly well for being drunk off his ass. Birdy and Julio actually had to carry someone back, which is pretty impressive. But the best moment came when Lisa got back. She held a bag from McDonalds. The drunk people flocked to her. Being the generous person she is, she handed over her fries to Ziggy. She looks away for a second, and Ziggy takes this time not to eat all of them, not even to eat one of them. He threw the bag like a grenade down the hall way. Lisa was less than pleased.
Ira had lost track of Zander last night, and I saw him this morning. He explained that he had spent the night sleeping in a private garden somewhere in Sandy Bay. Being too tired to make it home to his bed, he slept in a flower bed. I am so funny
Other fun stuff, went for a run today for the first time in ages. i also missed the rain by about 30 minutes, perfect timing. Time to start getting back in shape. woo.
also, go hawthorne, won by over 100 points today!

Moving Moving Moving

So its been a little while so my last post, and there are a couple reasons for that, mainly computer problems. Most of this post is from collective memories rather than any one person.
So Sunday was the legendary Fisher event known as the Move. It is meant to celebrate the end of the rugby season, as well be one last hurrah before everyone buckled for exams. It had everyone, violence, nudity, and alcohol. One of the reasons that alcohol became quite a problem was Ziggy brought tape, so may people decided it would be a great idea to create wizard staffs. The goal then became to get them over their head. Ira succeeded in hitting the ceiling. After this, much of the night became a blur for many people. The lifers won the boat race as usual. There was cider, but that didn't last too long. The nudity came in many forms, mainly the most memorable of which was Bruce, and his performance. Maybe the funniest story involves Brady (our sometimes Rugby Coach). He challenged the boys to try to take him down, and stop him running. Everyone got revved up to do it...Then he took off all his clothes...Everybody walked off.
The violence involved the freshers trying to run across the rugby pitch as everyone else tried to stop them. I was stopped by Tess and I believe Zankee took upon himself to do so as well, ripping my jeans in the process. For some reason some of the girls tried planking, so Jason and I had to show them how idiotic they looked. Jes also tried to feed a flower to a possum, with limited to no results. There is much more from the night, but I have neither the time nor the memory to put it here
Disaster struck the next morning when I woke up. I found my laptop soaking wet with water. I must have spilled my water bottle on it. It has not come back to life since. Life sucks a bit. I've currently stolen Jason's laptop. his N key barely works. Anyway, lessons learned: no more wizard staffs, drink less, stay away from electronics when drunk.
Also, no pictures are suitable to be posted on this blog

That Asshole Bird

Normally I love birds. My family has a pet bird, we go bird watching, and I start to bore people talking about birds. Except this one bird. Here is the mugshot of the horrible creature

The Masked Lapwing: eight counts of noise complaints and resisting arrest

The way my room is set up, the roof of Pepperz is right under it. It is a perfect place for a bird to land. Earlier in the semester I found a Laughing Kookaburra there one morning, quietly sitting
 and doing its own thing. It was wonderful. What was less wonderful are the multiple times at 2 am when a bird lands on it and starts cheeping with this annoying metallic sound. Even worse is when two land and decide its the perfect time for a long, heartfelt conversation. I'm not allowed to climb out on the window and yell at them. Also if I climb out Jason will likely poor water on me. So i'm in a horrible situation with an evil bird. sigh, life is hard

On another note: This was our guest teacher for the beginning of plants

 It was a very enlightening lecture on the history of the wars between Teddy Bears and the monsters under the bed. He highlighted the bravery of General Pooh. Most interesting plants class I've had all year

Big Rugby Day

Yesterday was the big day: Rugby. The results were: girls were down three tries when we started warming up and stopped paying attention. Guys lost 17-19. painful both emotionally and physically. The only worrying thing was that Bruce took a high tackle and was essentially knocked out towards the end. He was able to walk off the field. that got everyone very fired up, and by that i mean we had to physically restrain Tickets from murdering there entire team. I also sprained my wrist about halfway through the first half, but we all ignored that and played on. The line outs were a disaster, though apparently Christ was taking extra steps they shouldn't or something like that. Also their feeds into the scrum were pretty BS, they were essentially tossing it to the second row. sigh, whatever. there was some pretty good play on both sides, especially their passing across the field and our defense. i wont bore you with the details of every tackle and try (Tickets, Paddy, and Gav each got one, though maybe ziggy should have had Gav's). We then set about drowning our sorrows

This is how Bruce recovers from getting knocked out

This was around 2:30pm, and people just kept going and drinking and drinking and drinking. i was involved for a little bit, but soon ran off to my room to take a nap. at around 10 i headed down to the common room and found that everything had moved and most surfaces were covered in goon. jason joined me and someone brought it some watermelon. this message was sent to all the drunk people still standing. they converged on the common room. Jason and I put up our feet and thoroughly enjoyed another episode of The Common Room: Drunk Edition. It was hilarious. things ranged from Lisa declaring that Choppa was not having sex, to Lisa charging Kaitlin into a wall. A very funny end to the day. Possibly the highest rated episode yet

Super Parmi Night

A much anticipated pre-rugby event is Super Parmi Night. Now what does super parmi night consist of? well, we all go to Cascade Brewery, order food, and enjoy. it just so happens that we're required to order Super Beef Scnitzel with Parmi toppings. sounds delicious, but the problem comes in with the super part. super here works in the same sense as super-sized. the parmis were absolutely enormous. i was very lucky and got a moderate sized one. it was only a little bit larger than what you would get at a restaurant, so much bigger than pepperz. most other people had these dinner plate sized parmis with toppings burrying them, in short, much larger than mine. i was able to get through mine with only the last few bites. Bruce was sitting right next to me and had one nearly twice the size of mine. i literally thought me was going to spew at the table, but he didn't, something to be proud of. Kurt and Aaron should be less proud, as they did not finish. Neither did Dylan or Schmidty, but lifer's don't have to. Also most people (nondrivers) had a drink with dinner, and some people truly struggled during that part.

Thus ends the first half of the night. the second half was going out. we got back to fisher, and sam clark and the swedens and lisa begged ira, julio, and myself to come out to tele with them. before leaving ira and i each had a bottle of two month expired Chang, yum. Swedens is plural back there because Kim's friend Theresa has been visiting for the week, she is mostly referred to as Sweden 2.0. Tele was fun, and Brady (our unofficial rugby coach) was one of the bartenders. We hung out, played a few games of pool where Ira and I beat Sam and Theresa twice, we're awesome. It was a good time, and all the St. Pats people showed up too, the girls got there a little after we did and the guys came later from Dr. Syntax where they watched Footy. We got Theresa to ask Dylan about the game (Geelong lost to Collingwood). He was not happy. We were able to snag a kind of VIP/couch area for the fisher people, and we hung out there for a while. At around 1:15 we left and headed to O-bar. O-bar sucked so Sam Clark and I walked back to Fisher. End of night

Dinner Tonight: Chicken Pami

References

Remember how I told you I had the best lecture ever earlier in the week. I may have spoken too soon because the second fauna lecture of the week was also pretty awesome. He was able to put in both a Monty Python and a Game of Thrones reference in one lecture. Any lecture that Stewart gives he opens with a picture of him palming an echidna and it saying something. The first lectures he gave where on reptiles, so the echidna exclaimed: I'm not a reptile. the next lecture was still on reptiles: i'm still not a reptile, etc. this was yesterdays

"Bring out your dead!"

To make sure you guys understand, this is from the holy grail (and spamalot). watch it if you have not. on the subject of extinct animals the direwolf came up. he gave a little nod to game of thrones before moving on. Try not to be too jealous.
Another thing worth noting is that if you open the app store on itunes, you will see a consmr app. this is the company my brother noah cofounded, so its amazing that its literally on the front page of it! congrats!!

Oh! Hi Elmo!!

Couldn't help but notice what was right under it. Anyway everyone should check out the app, its pretty helpful for finding good food in stores. the app will explain what it does more. My family is so cool

Why We Hate Jane, part 2

We had a practice match against Jane last night. Firstly, we did not lose even though they have allegedly been practicing since March and most of our practices have less than a full team show up. We also did not win, it was a draw 0-0. really exciting match...actually it was pretty fun, a little stressful. the halves were supposed to be 20 minutes (rather than 40) and in the first half that happened. just before the second one started the lights went off, we got them back on and played for a little, but then they went off again. we just called it a game. there was some good stuff, i had a monster tackle that i'm proud of

and apparently tommy c had a sweet tackle together, but don't really remember that one. also apparently everyone though my neck turned mush destroyed during a tackle, but i was completely fine. I don't remember that one at all, it must have looked worse than it was. The bad part of my play was the line outs. the first half i think i got penalties on half and they stole half the rest. luckily it got better the second half, either that or there were fewer opportunities to screw up.
so playing against Jane doesn't necessarily mean that we hate them. it was actually very nice of them to agree to play us. BUT they were kind of unsportsman like dicks, or at least their hooker was. He tried to distract me on line ins and such, during a friendly practice game. i will not repeat his foul words to my reader. also his knee somehow found my head during a ruk. as ira put it, i'm not saying it was intentional, i'm just saying he's a ****. anyway, no one got hurt on either side during the game, and many people played really well. there were plenty of mistakes and lots to improve on, but not bad for our first practice game
We also got to wear our Fisher rugby jumpers for the first time, we actually looked like a team. a blue and white team

Best Class Ever?

Today I had my Tas Fauna class, and was able to force myself to get up and go to class because we were going to learn about Monotremes. When people think of Tasmanian Fauna, get past the devil and marsupials, one thinks of the platypus and the echidna. Our unit coordinator is also a specialist on echidna's so he might know what he's talking about. I got to class and realized I didn't have anything to write with. oops, just sat and listened, now i have to (get to) watch the lecture again. I know I, and probably much of the class was a little distracted from the lecture by the pictures that came with it.

Echidna getting an ultrasound and has an anesthetic mask on its nose

How am I supposed to pay attention when there are pictures like this looking me straight in the face. Literally impossible. The most important lesson to learn about echidna's is that the tasmanian ones are much cuter than the mainland ones. it's colder in tasmania so they have a lot more fur so its not a walking pinecone, its a walking furball with small spines sticking out. Also both the males and females are promiscuous. lecturer's words not mine. the males also like to mate with hibernating females...they kind of wake up for it...kind of. Also they have fancy penises. Just sharing the knowledge I gained in class, be happy i didn't share a picture. Another fun fact is that platypus have a venomous spur, but you knew that. Did you know that if they inject you with venom in the hand you wont die, but you'll have problem moving it for months, and the only way to relieve the pain is opiates. Platypus would make the world's best drug dealers.

Deceptively Adorable Drug Dealers