A rushed update

My laptop has 29% of its battery, so I've given myself until it runs out to do this update. Cricket sucked, basically. It was decided that seeing as I was from the southern hemisphere that I had to be good at cricket, and so was given the opener's spot. My fellow Combat Wombats (our indoor cricket team) will know that while I am not a complete retard, neither am I especially talented. Nonetheless, I was more than a little disappointed to get a first ball duck. I didn't bowl but fielded ok, but on the whole I think I would have been much better off going to the Beer Festival, which I didn't end up going to at all. Boo.
23% remaining. Saturday was an OK day. I woke up late and spent a few hours reading the paper and drinking tea, then headed down to the climbing gym. I climbed for a few hours with Thomas, a South African bloke, and Helen, who is an undergrad here who hales (hails? - dunno, too little battery power to check) from up near Wales. It was good. We made up a few new problems, then went to the pub for a beer. Good times.
Sunday was spent in the lab, as was Monday morning (Monday was a public holiday over here), then I went climbing again in the afternoon. Helen invited Thomas and I to formal hall at her college, which as far as I can work out is some kind of formal dinner, which I have been told I should definitely try and attend at least once. Not being particularly formal at the best of times, there is a question about whether I will be able to look sufficiently dressed-up, but I'll do my best and see, I guess.
18%: Science stuff continues. The guy who was helping me with mass speckory is going on holidays, so I pretty much have to sort myself out lipid analysis-wise. Still, I think I will be able to get at least some useful results out of it. NMR stuff is finished, so I can start analysis on that data, and meeting with Johan Thevelein is confirmed. I am a half-arsed individual, but stuff seems to fall together for some reason.

As an aside, if podcasts are your thing, check out Frenzie's Groove Therapy radio show, which is broadcast at lunchtime in Sydney on Friday's on 2SER, or available as a podcast from here.

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