Below are the most recent 6 friends' journal entries.

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
nobody_special_	12:35a	no food, cold, Still have an essay to do (although I've mostly done it it's about microbial bioremediation of oil.) and I still have Christmas shopping to do. Boo... It's annoying because sleep deprivation, hunger, and cold all aggravate each other by dropping your metabolism. If you don't eat your metabolism drops If you don't sleep you can't regulate your temperature properly. If your cold you can't sleep properly. Oh well it's nearly over now just gotta finish the essay then everything else is due after the holidays and is a secondary objective. in summation. HUNGRY!! And what do you want for Christmas? Or I will get you something random. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
fetchlight	10:37p	I defrosted some rolls and they are stale/freeze dried 0_o grrr. Now I'm really pissed off. Home for Xmas on Friday though! It is weird still being here. Only us SFY students and some cleaners and admin staff remain. Its really quiet, and kind of eerie. I'm also the only person left in the flat, so nobody is stealing my milk. I have claimed the contents of the fridge and freezer as compensation. (Comment on this)
Sunday, December 13th, 2009
schnarm	4:40p	ha, screw you christmas shopping. you thought you could intimidate me but your done now, so fuck you! yes, have done shopping (mainly on ebay) and am very happy with it. got my sister a really nice and expensive bottle of booze from selfidges. was terrified that it would smash on the way back from manchester, but it made the journey in one piece. just need to get it back to basingstoke now. speaking of which, i will back in basingstoke next friday evening (five days! woot). can't wait. i'm gonna be so bussy this week. i've got to prepair my cells to be neglected for two whole weeks, i need to finish annalysing results and get me head around statistics, do loads of hospital tests and i need to clean my rooma dn pack up all my stuff so i can move it all out the day i come back here. so glad to be moving out of the nurses home soon. oh, i got the best book yesterday, 'It's beginning to look alot like Zombie'. zombie christmas carols, seriously, you can't beat it. thinking of going to the christmas carol service here at the hospital and singing the zombie lyrics instead of the normal ones. have been watching an aweful lot of gavin and stacey over the past few weeks. bought the first two serise on dvd. totally love it. and i have developed a reather worrying obssesion. i'm almost ashamed to admit this, but i can't deny the truth anymore. i love bridget jones's diary. i really do. i read it a few weekends ago, and i've now had to re-read it, and have had to buy edge of reason from amazon. am on such a trash fiction binge. (Comment on this)
Friday, December 11th, 2009
fetchlight	9:22a	awww no money...supernoodle breakfasts suck (Comment on this)
Monday, December 7th, 2009
fetchlight	10:11p	weed cookie and lj-facilitated procrastination time. Just watched Walking with Monsters again, still feel a bit let down by it. :( Style over substance. There are 3 things wrong with it imho. 1.) Too short. Walking with Dinosaurs/Beasts both got 6 episodes, why not Monsters? 2.) Because of number 1 it seemed so rushed, which is a huge shame because there are a lot of really interesting creatures and habitats that were either not mentioned or just quickly brushed over. If the BBC really wanted an overview of evolution they should have devoted a programme or two to that rather than trying to force it into the Walking with...wildlife documentary format and doing both halfarsedly. There's barely any information provided on the creatures, the habitats, the ancient continents,the taxonomy, etc etc.these things could have added a bit more context.And it doesn't really go into why it is thought the evolution they bang on about happened the way it did. Its too simplistic. more therapsid action plz. I just don't see why it got this treatment other than saving money. I mean,...Beasts was full of creatures the general public might not have heard of before and were much less famous than dinsaurs, mammoths etc. This could have been so cool. 3.) Because of 1 and 2 it seemed actively dumbed down. Not just general entertainment level dumbed down which is fine, in fact usually good, for documentaries but more like,"well, you don't really care about the details you just want some pretty CGI lols"which is a shame cause the CGI is nice and it would have been totally awesome to have some kind of proper wildlife drama played out in the Burgess Shale animal community. At least they managed to get in Anomalocaris, a cool gorgonopsid and many vicious Dimetredons. Wow, what a geeky rant. I'm writing an essay I don't really care about, it brings out the whiny geek in me. Antioxidants in popular breakfast fruit juice in case anyone cares, and they don't, but if you are interested, cranberry and pomegranate have come out on top out of the ones I have looked at. Searching through papers on this is a nightmare, so many Gillian-McKeithy sounding ones, and even more ultra-specific ones on diseased populations and rodent models and a bunch more that aren't online. Yikes. Later I have to write my human evolution essay and researching that is a nightmare thanks to all the creationist crap out there. I honestly don't see the problem with it, with regards to religion. To me, the theory of evolution is fascinating and kind of beautiful, and exactly the the kind of creative brilliance I imagine(-d, when I was very young and still sort of believed in that kind of thing*) a god would come up with. I had this kind of notion that watching life was the godly equivalent of immersing oneself an epic film or novel or something. And then, if you like to think humans are a pinnacle of evolution, developing out of single celled organisms and struggling for life in the face of danger and catastrophy and then eventually developing the potential to maybe even rise above the brutality of nature seems quite noble and romantic to me. I may be missing something. I was turned off the idea of god originally by the apparent lack of dinosaurs in heaven.* Anyway, once you get through all that, you have these two schools of though. One that humans are still evolving rapidly, maybe more rapidly in the past, and the other that we are barely evolving at all, even to the point where human evolution is almost over. And as I have not studied this in great depth I don't really have much of an opinion or anything to really back it up. I've arbitrarily picked "humans are still evolving" cause I think we are but no clue how rapidly. Ugh. This is hard going. SO MUCH CRAP ON INTERNET. Going to drink tea and sleep, I think I have a cold D: D: D: D: * I asked a vicar visiting the school to do an assembly if someone was feeding my dead first goldfish in heaven. He said, no, animals don't go to heaven. So then I got worried and asked him if that meant there were no dinosaurs in heaven and he said there weren't. And so my whole worldview was totally shattered because I thought heaven was supposed to be this completely awesome place but really couldn't be if there were no animals, no dinosaurs, not even my pet goldfish, it suddenly sounded as unspeakably awful as hell and I didn't want to go there anymore. Lol. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, December 6th, 2009
schnarm	4:40p	oh my god there is so much wind here, i will not be suprised if i wake up in oz. theres plenty of rain too, but so far no snow. has been fucking cold though. i've taken to wearing four or five layers at work and i'm still bloody cold, especialy when i'm in the lab. works going fine, no major problems or anything. one girl i work with has her PhD Viva on the tenth, sounds so stress full, it seriously puts me of the idea of doing a PhD. four years of my life spent stressed out of my scull just to say 'Trust me, i'm a Doctor'. don't think it's worth it. ah, i think the wind is trying to get into the library computer room, sounds pretty intense. not fun. i'm coming home soon, i can't wait. i've talked my mum into leaving the christmas decorating to my this year, so i get to put up the tree when i get home. i'm really looking forward to christmas this year. i've spent so long planing things and making lists, i think it should be awesomeness. (oh, nef, have you emembered to get a table and chairs and stuff? are we still on for christmas day?) oh, i know i've said yes to some nightmere before christmas themed hunt thing, but i'm not really sure whatr it is (need to stop saying yes to everything), could i get some form of defition? i'm sure it will be fun, but i'm just not sure what kind of fun. my belly hurts, i had a 'fun with mango' day today and i'm not sure it was the best idea. tasty though. (1 Comment |Comment on this)