My last essay-o-doom got finished yesterday, without too much trouble, but with very little sleep. As a result I slept in this morning and missed all but ten minutes of my lecture on peroxisomes

Curiously enough, I saw the professor who came over from Cambridge to teach us for part of the essay-o-doom unit (about eighteenth-century English literature and its connections with the many scientific discoveries of the day) in the Reid library café this afternoon. ’Tis interesting that a visiting professor seemed happy to go there, considering that most UWA staff think they’re too cool to visit an eating venue where there might be students.

In other news, this blog hasn’t had a rant in a while, so I shall now mention something random I saw today. Imagine ― you’re a federal bureaucrat, complicit in a plan to undo a century of federalist tradition by trying to convince the Aussie public that yes, we really really need to take industrial relations powers away from the states. How does one do it?

Sure you’ve seen the cheesy TV ads ― but now there’s cheesy Web ads as well!