Okay it’s not that bad…. with 339 days until final exams over I need not worry that I am obselete. Yet. But I was amused today whenst I ventured forth to Amazon.Com today to discover that it is now possible to purchase the Phillips Automated External Defibrillator* for use in your [...]
Hat-tip to Alanis for inspiring the title….
I thinks that one of the great ironies of blogging is that….whenever there is something blog-worthy happening, I am too busy to blog it. When there’s nothing blog-worthy happening I have heaps of time and nothing to say.
Like Now.
So I sprout mindless drivel. Or Trivia.
At [...]
According to the Oxford English Dictionary [sorry this link only works for UQ users] ( a very very very cool website…because it has settled many an argument …and is the source of many weird and wonderful words)…….
facetious Characterized by, or addicted to, pleasantry; jocose, jocular, waggish. Formerly often with laudatory sense: [...]
Hmph.
I am told by certain readers….that this here ramblings sounds like a male, medical version of Bridget Jones’ Diary.
I don’t know whether to be humiliated or happy with a comment like that. But…that’s what I am told.
Having never seen the movie nor read the book, I would have no idea whether this [...]
A reminder for myself to read before final exams…..
Useful series of articles on key mental health areas… great summaries for revision and study purposes – and with an Australian slant on it.
MJA Mental Health Series.
Today and tomorrow mark the first weekedn I have had off in a long long long time. It was bliss to be able to wake up and know that I could go back to sleep without the guilt that comes with knowing that one should be awake and somewhere else.
So it was not until [...]
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
There is a site I regularly (i.e. every 6 to 12 months) refer to for amusement.
Medical Slang.
Highly chuckle-worthy.
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
When you have to pay 21 dollars a kilo for chicken, it’s time to consider vegetarianism. For the next six weeks I thinks that I might avoid the meat.
A basket of groceries cost me 97 dollars yesterday. That is… a carry basket.
So it’s an expensive little time here on Groote.
And muggy.
Thank goodness [...]
Hello World!!
Here I am in Darwin.
Muggy as all buggery. It honestly feels like what I guess it must feel like if you were to swim in a pool of warm urine.
Having said that I can only speculate as to what it would be like to marinate in urine (be that mine or [...]
Saturday, October 16, 2004
Floods of purple. Pungent, sweet and delectable perfume pervading the air. Gray clouds building up after an oppressively hot day. Ahhhh I love this time of the year.
When the jacarandas start to flower it means that the holidays are near. It means exams will be shortly upon us (there was a [...]