Hi everyone!
How is life treating you? I've been crazy busy with uni this semester though I'm happy to report that my hard work is paying off
I still have one piece of assessment left but it isn't due for another week, so I thought i'd write a quick journal update.
Yesterday I was lucky enough to go on a field trip with some classmates out onto Moreton Bay. For those of you who don't know, I study biology at uni and this field trip was for a unit on marine vertebrates. The purpose of the trip was to watch a group of researchers catch and tag dugongs and collect some samples (for my overseas watchers dugongs are closely related to manatees). I don't have a fancy camera but I still managed to take some decent shots - you can see them here on my Flickr: (
www.flickr.com/photos/68712740…). We found a few dugongs but didn't see any elasmobranchs, turtles or cetaceans, save a lone dolphin near the ferry terminal. When I walked off the boat at the end of the day I was crusted with salt and very tender after the bumpy boat ride, but it was an amazing experience and something I would love to do again someday. Being a science student is challenging but it can also be really rewarding.
In other news I've been getting better marks for my papers than I expected. Sadly though I know from experience that my end of year exams will bring my marks down. I can write essays in exams but I always seem to forget important bits and pieces.
Even though I only have two more weeks left of uni I still have a busy summer holidays ahead of me. I'll be continuing with voluntary lab work at my university, plus I will be starting work in a nearby zoo in january. I also need to try and find a supervisor for my honours year. I'm not sure yet if I'll try getting a summer job - the last two years have been unsuccessful and I've pretty much given up on working while I'm a student.
Some more great news is that I am 10% lighter than I was at the beginning of the year! I haven't been doing anything fancy, just been going to the gym a lot and eating a bit better. I still have a fair bit left to lose though D:
As for posting stuff on DA, you can see I haven't done much for months. Aside from being busy with uni I have not been feeling creative lately. My brother also bought Borderlands so we've been playing that our free time. Hopefully in the hols I will feel a bit more relaxed and creative. I have so many ideas! You guys may also recall that I was writing a novella? That's on hold because, wait for it, uni work. Writing assignments doesn't motivate me to do more writing!
TL;DR I'm fine
For those of you who did read all of the above, have a cookie and a cookie monster
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