“Out of the way! We are in the throes of an exceptional emergency! This is no occasion for sport- there is lace at stake!" - Elizabeth Gaskell (Cranford)

Know what tomorrow is, bloggers?

That's right! Hurray!

Of course, being that we still live in Hobart, the celebration the occasion entails will probably be interrupted by rain. What'cha gonna do.

As lovely as winter can be, I'm more than ready to bid it adieu and start welcoming in warmer weather. It has been substantially warmer here over the last couple of weeks, with highs around 15°C. Dress weather! For realsies. I think I've finally acclimatised. From dress weather we'll soon be moving on to bikini weather, which I'm particularly looking forward to, as I'm living close to the beach for the first time in my life. 

Closely connected to the commencement of beach season will be the release of the Honours cohort from full-time thesis mode! We've already booked a house at Narawntapu National Park in party anticipation. So on the second week on November, look out for a bunch of vitamin D deficient kids on the beaches of Narawntapu, blinking in the sunlight and looking very confused at the absence of spreadsheets, data and critical comments on their writing style. 

 Face may or may-not be able to celebrate with us, as HE GOT A JOB!! Whooooo! He's now a prestigious kitchen-hand at Sush, a sushi shop in the Hobart CBD. He doesn't even like sushi. Kit, however, does, and fully intends to abuse his staff discount. 

Furthermore, Face has found a few more PhD proposals that interest him. At the moment, it looks like we'll be staying in Hobart for the next 3-4 years! Kit is happy-sad about this. Happy, because she's pleased that Face will be studying something that interests him, and sad 'cause I really miss my birdie, and it'll be another 3 years before she can live with me again! Waaahhhhhhh. :'( But happy-Face beats bird-sad. Also, Hobart is a pretty cool place to live, so we'll be fiiiiiiiiiine. Now Face just has to contact the supervisors and decide between studying stem cells (important), the genetics of giant kelp beds (boring), environmental genetics stuff based on what foxes in Tasmania are preying on (controversial! [some people don't believe there are foxes in Tasmania. When evidence (scat collections and genetic identification) strongly implies there are here, just not in the numbers seen on the mainland, which is what surveys have been based off and rah rah rah! *shakes fist* It's a fairly hot topic which gets a lot of haters] and interesting!), or the genetics of DFTD (IMPORTANT AND DEVILS AND OH-MY-GAWD SO INTERESTING). 

Please note the comments in brackets are not based on Face's opinion.

Well, that's about it for news! I'm off to watch more devil videos. I'm so sick of watching devil videos. 

Much love. xx