Anyway, The Novacaine Network has been updated with all the little things people have been submitting and I've been too lazy to upload ^^;

I can't work here @_@ There's an exam next monday. And another one the next Tuesday after that. My haematology essay is due tomorrow, my microbiology practical is due Friday, I have to give a biochemistry talk in the same week as the cytology exam. I'm not really complaining right now, I'm not sinking under the weight of it at the moment. Just stating for myself that there's a lot to do so I'll actually sit down and do it. Just busy.

We got an anthrax sample today. Or, more correctly, we have heartblood from an animal which is suspected to have anthrax. It's getting stained and looked at on Monday, and I'm kicking myself because I have to be at Uni on Monday. I won't get to see it T_______T I want to see the anthrax stain. I want to get suited up and go into the biohazard room.

I want to see the anthrax.

And on that topic. We've just started a series of lectures on Virology at Uni. I was surprised to learn that we have the sort of place you work with things like ebola in Adelaide. It's a building that's in a building that's in a building. And inside you wear the spacesuit type protection suit with the tubes and the negative pressure (like in Outbreak. Think of Outbreak). I didn't know we had such a place in little Adelaide. I want to see it. Outbreak is (don't laugh at me) the reason I decided to become a biomedical scientist. I wanted to work with high level viruses. I wanted to be like Dustin Hoffman ^^;

Dinner dinner, it's time for dinner

[I'm on the 5th page of a 5 page essay. Woohoo! Just polish it off, add diagrams and referances and I'm almost nearly done. There are lots of people in the computer pools considering it is 8:30 on a Friday night, and I'm the only one who is actually working. The others are emailing, lurking in boardrooms or generally surfing the net. Hrm]

Mary topping up her internet quota at Uni today:

*walks to the campus central desk*
Mary: I'd like to top up my internet quota
Lady: call the technology help line they take care of all that
Mary: but the computer pools have signs saying that campus central does it
Lady: I don't know. Call the tech line

*calls the tech line*
Mary: how do I top up my internet quota?
D: Go to campus central, they take care of all that
Mary: I'm at campus central O_o; they said to call you
D: *laughing* I don't know why they said that, they do it all the time.
Mary: bleh
D: *still laughing* Maybe you got a newbie serving you. Try again, and remember the more you top it up the more we love you
Mary: lol Hint hint?
D: not that it comes to us of course

*trots the 2 meters back to the campus central desk where the lady is sitting very red faced with the form you have to fill in to top up your internet quota* Lady: I thought you were having computer trouble...

Silly lady + hyperactive techie = bemused Mary

[of course it doesn't help that I'm trapped at the only computer that's directly under the air conditioning vent]

• Red earth lip color tower
  
• Red earth lip brush
  
• Makeup brush set
  
• Loreal translucide foundation in Sand Beige
  
• She "queenie" lipstick and lipliner [very pink because I felt like being pretty for once]
  
• Clinique black honey gel blush
  
• Clinique almost lipstick in "almost blush"

It looks like I have a huge multicolored rash.

Reko, I take back what I said last night. I am as bad as you after all n_n;; Me back at Uni now with P, to write up the transfusion essay. I'm going to finish it tonight >o< I refuse to go home until it is finished.

There's been a new technical assistance guy downstairs, and he's been around for 2 months already but I still don't know his name X___X it seems a little late to ask now, but he looks like a Gary. This is bad na, he knows my name and calls me by it, but I have no idea what his is. I don't think I ever did ^^; I think he might be D's friend though. lol I feel bad, he's nice and I think he be 24, but he acts like his 16 XD;; He's really funny. He stole my yellow bin today. Dodged off with it like a little kid. *tsk tsk* HE SHOULD WEAR HIS NAMETAG! What's with guys at my workplace and their refusal to wear their name tags?! it's company policy and I have a bad memory, they should weaaaaaaaar. [then I'd know front desk guy's name... he should wear his tag too.... but he looks like a Tom. maybe I'll call him Tom].

I haaaaaaaaate when this happens na. There was a girl in Uni that T and I hung around with in 1st year but we didn't know her name. When she wasn't around we refered to her as "the V girl". I can't believe we hung around Uni together for almost a year and never knew her name ^^; She told us once, but we forgot it. We could only remember that there was a V in it. Vachan and I still refer to her as the V girl. X_x;;

Didn't see front desk guy today, where did he go again? ;_;

I've just gone blogging mad today X_x;

• High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
  
• How to be Good by Nick Hornby
  
• The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales

The Grimm's fairy tales have actually been a bit hard to find. Or is it that I don't know where to look? I can find the sanitised versions of the stories which are so common, but the originals seem to be rare. I've always loved fairy tales and folk tales, in junior school I used to borrow a lot of greek/chinese/irish folk story collections from the library. But until 2 years or so ago I thought the grimm's fairy tales I'd been told as a child were the right ones. I didn't know they had been sanitised and rewritten for children. ^^; Before now I think I've only read a small number of the originals, but now I have all 210. I'm very happy ^_^;

I was reading a few on the bus, but I think the original Little Red Cap [little red riding hood] story remains my favourite. I read a story once that claimed to be the original, in which the wolf, pretending to be Grandma, had the little girl drinking her gran's blood [said it was wine] and eating her flesh [said it was animal meat]. However, this book I have and the story posted on the National geographic page don't have this. I've only read this story once online and heard a version very similar in the anime, Jin Roh. In these other versions Red cap is simply devoured and afterwards the huntsman cuts the wolf's stomach open while it slept to save both her and her grandma. They place heavy stones in the wolf's stomach and he drops dead after waking up. Red Cap and Granny also drown another wolf later, when it tales Red Cap through the forest. But Red cap hasn't been sanitised as much as Cinderella. I was mmm, surprised when I read that one ^^; I like both what I've read of the original stories and the sanitised versions I know so well, but I think the morbid part inside of me considers the more grotesque originals to be of greater interest ^^;

I want a collection of Aesop's fables as well!

I started studying for the cytology exam, which is in a few weeks last night and I gues stuff went into my brain. The first thing I thought when I woke up was CIN I, II and III and the variations in cell types that correspond. O_<;; That can't be normal. Isn't the first thing you think of in the morning meant to be the thing you love? Cytology is interesting but I don't want it to be the first thought of the morning XD;

Saw my cousin when I was walking to the labs this morning. I was walking behind him and thinking "is that irving? Nah, it CAN'T be. He's too short" and debating whether to say hi. Then he turned around and started talking to me and I was thinking "eeeeeeh? it's him after all" Somehow in my head Irving is tall, but today he seemed to be very short ^^; Maybe because the guy he was with was very tall? ehe ^^;

Nahnah has moved her blog to Novacaine.net, she's my first ever hostee. She will stay forever. Forever! *chains Nahnah to the domain*

You know the Coco pops ad where the monkey is fighting a big rino in a boxing ring? I love the day the dog commentor says "coa coa pops cup". I can't hear it enough XD;

Front desk guy is back ^____________________^ I don't know why I didn't see him for so long, maybe he didn't follow the PIRSA guys after all? I was so surprised, when I walked into the font door he was at his desk. He seemed to be training someone though. What if she's being trained to take his place? X_x noooo, get away girl. get! get! *chases her away* Worse, what if they spend so much time together they become close. nooooo *chases her away* lol ^^;

Today I:

• Read that Ian Thorpe is going to appear in an anime [Atashi'n chi ] =D I must see I must see!
  
• Was told by N that she wants to leave Adelaide and move to Brisbane.... She wants me to follow her there......
  
• Decided that although I'll miss my friend.... I'll move to Brisbane when hell freezes over [no offence to you people who live there, but if I move it will be to somewhere like Sydney or Melbourne. Nat says Brisbane is like Adelaide. Why would I move from one adelaide to another?]
  
• Cultured 2 brains. I dropped one, what a mess.
  
• Played Dokapan at while at work and still couldn't finish the first stage [I want my AAA licsence!]. The mole thing keeps knocking me out.
  
• Fell asleep 3 times during haematology lectures [P kept jabbing me when we had to write something]
  
• Received a $55 mobile phone bill because of all the SMS I've been sending lately X_X $55! It's usually only $20.
  
• Plotted with Vachan to time our visit to the cafeteria so as to be served by the pretty boy working there.
  
• Was traumatised. We failed. Were served by a grumpy old lady who had a moustache

I'm back on my Phantom of the Opera trip again. It comes and goes every one or 2 years. When I'm afflicted I start rereading Gaston Leroux's original novel [I can't count the number of times I've read this book] and listening to the musical soundtrack over and over [trying to figure out the number of times this has been listened to it futile]. I even have a copy of the script ^^; The end of the musical and novel make me cry. Always ;_; Poor Eric. This latest round of addiction is even making me want to start working on my long abandoned Phantom shrine again. But since Uni is on I'm forced to do more productive things with my time, than analyse a novel and related musicals/films.

Better go now better go go go. I still have much work to do [Vachan and I were talking about Uni today and how we think we're going to reach break point very soon X_X At least I know that when I go crackers she'll be right beside me XD; ].

I'm going to wrap up a chocolate for P tonight. Because although she was infinitely irritating on Friday I feel that I was overly harsh on her that day =X I tried not to show it on my face, but I think she could see that I was very angry at her, and by the end of the prac session she stopped trying to talk to me. I meant to get a small present today but didn't manage to get the time together.

I wish the coffee machine here wasn't locked off after hours. I want to drink coffee. It's cold in here too, some ass decided it was too warm and went and turned the airconditioning up high

[there are an awful lot of people studying at uni right now, considering it's a sunday]