Planetary Science - decision made

I went over the past TMAs and did the specimen exam paper for Planetary Science today. I then marked myself to see how well badly I'd done. I ended up with about 30/100, and that's being generous to myself. Most of the questions I couldn't answer or thought I could, but when I checked it turned out that I had screwed the whole thing up.

So, I'm not taking the exam.

I shall now be moving on to studying Maths for Science and hopefully improving myself that way instead.

Exam Revision

It would be fantastic to get a trilobite to label in the exam and to have learnt all its parts with their proper names.

I wonder if I'd get bonus marks?!

Millook Haven, Cornwall

I'm the purple blob. I'm waving. This path was an absolute bummer to walk up.



For scale, I'm the purple blob at the bottom of the cliff.




For those among you who might criticise this picture, I didn't take it. My long-suffering boyfriend took it. Therefore it is lacking a pencil / finger / or lens cap! You'll just have to treat it as a pretty picture!

Shortly after taking all these pictures for me, I told Boyfriend to be careful on the rocks. Telling him of people who had fallen during summer school. My back was turned for less than a minute, but that was long enough for him to slip off the rocks and go crashing into a rock pool. I do have a picture of that too...

Truly Frightening

A bunch of photos from the Creationist Museum in Kentucky. Lucky taken and posted by a nice sensible person, the comments are lovely, but the photos are terrifying.

NOT the Eye of God!

My dear friend sent me another of those bloody awful totally useless emails today where you have to pass it on to six people otherwise bad things will happen blah, blah, blah...

Today's mail has had me seething worse than usual because of its use of this:



This is the Helix Nebula, and yes, it is made of awesome*. However it is not, I repeat NOT, the Eye of God. The mail was also full of creationist bollocks, which I am not going to be repeating and I am very afraid that I ranted back at her. She really should know better that to c.c. me into those mails. I've told her before not to spam me or chain letter me, but the god-bothering ones are really annoying. Yes, I'm sure I have an Angel** watching over me and I'm sure every week is Friendship Week. Meh.

I normally just ignore them, but this one was a little too much. I might be hating the Planetary Science course, but that doesn't mean I suddenly hate space and nebulas.


* and also made of gaseous material shed from a dying star...
**If they look like David Boreanaz they can watch all they want!

Goats for Christmas

My friend A wants us to give our £5 Xmas money this year to Oxfam. We then thought we'd all club together and buy her a goat.

Then the guilt kicked in. Do I really need more crap and clutter? £5 Christmas is a good idea, means we don't spend too much on each other, but we do end up with bits and chocolate and alcohol because you can't get anything substantial with a fiver.

So I jumped on her bandwagon and I told them to count me in and get me a goat.

Now, thanks to A being a warm-hearted person, everyone is thinking this is a good idea.

Goats all round this year.

The Cornish Wedding

It'll soon be time to pack our bags and head off to St. Ives for L's wedding. I'm sure we'll all have a great time, but I'm a selfish bitch and all I can think about is how it's cutting into my revising time!

Still, I think I may have found a little something to make it more worthwhile. It involves a tiny detour from the most direct route, but we did say we wanted to take breaks on the way down. Turbidites! Folding!

There's also Tintagel Castle just a short way along from Boscastle. I've never been there.

On the Sunday we're planning on going to the Eden Poject, so I hope we actually remember to go to the wedding itself. "Sorry L, we got lost."