I say the specific title because Nathan had to do laundry tonight. I've got a couple of more days, I'm scheduled for Sunday unless something drastic happens, like I fall into a pool or pour morning tea on myself. The latter is much more likely to happen.
Anyway, today was extremely interesting. Went to a statistics class based on the program, "R". I got a great couple of ideas on how to interpret my data when I get back. My graduate professor will be very happy to hear about this. Besides this, I went to a lab and read some more papers. It all occurred at the Australian Antarctic Division (herein, AAD). I have learned so much about the Sub-Antarctic and Antarctic. It's phenomenal the ecological diversity on these outer islands that hover temperature around 0-4 degrees Celsius. It's also amazing to see the issues they are riddled with. Overpopulation with invasive species that effect everything from other animals in the food chain to the vegetation. Rabbits are actually being blamed for excessive landslides on one of the islands because of their destruction of one of the root dependent plants. Pretty amazing stuff. If you want to know more ask me and I'll forward your questions to the necessary parties. Look up Macquarie Island.
One interesting thing I did do, is perform a Tim-Tam Slam. Look that badboy up. It's this delicious chocolate biscuit that you use to suck up your hot tea or cocoa. It's pretty awesome, awesome enough to have its own wikipedia entry.
Well, I've got nothing else to really talk about besides today being very mild and quite beautiful.
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