Sending out emails to prospective PhD supervisors. Please don’t sound stupid, pleasedontsoundstupid, pleezdonsounstoopit, pleedonsounpit…

Spent the afternoon getting jabs. SE Asian tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis, typhoid, hepatitis A & B, and swine flu: you can’t touch this.

Just realized I only shaved one leg this morning. Fix it, or try and pass it off as a statement on the imbalance in the developed world?

Melbourne Cup: $34 spent, $74 and three free beers gained. Great day at the virtual tracks.

Just drew Zavite, Viewed, and Kibbutz for my Melbourne Cup office sweep. My pinched penny is on the Jewy one. GO you good thing!

My friends are amazing. They can make one chocolate cake stretch for five days, ten people, two pelicans, and a handful of gulls with moxie.

Forecast for our weekend at the lakehouse: 24C, 25C, 26C, sunny and tipsy, with high probability of bad decisions and BBQ snags.

27, what we had was beautiful? But we’ve grown apart. I’ve met someone. 28 still looks at me with hope and joy; we’re running away together.

Hands-down WORST part of living abroad: constant harassment by others about the “next step”. Also, lack of Reese’s.

I just got a surprise package of Halloween candy from my sister in New York. Diabetes, I’ll catch you yet!