Crikey, I go to sleep for a few hours and yous mob start acting like you got a few roos loose in your top paddock.


Ah, laugh if you must, but the cricket finals start today, about 10km from where I am sitting right now. Like lambs to the slaughter.

First article I published during my PhD was a review of my area (science). I was 1st author and then my supervisors etc. The article will now be the intro of my thesis...so basically, it made me write my thesis intro in the first year of my PhD, which I am stoked about now that I am writing up.

It was a dumpload of work - esp. searching for the literature and sourcing stuff the uni library didn't have access to - lots of emailing academics around the world, politely asking for copies - by the way, most of them were friendly and willing to help. All up 250 articles referenced - God bless Endnote.

We were really lucky it got accepted by our first-choice journal. In the year after it was published, it was in the top 10 most requested articles for that journal. So a lot of people are reading and referencing it out there. Great for me to be able to be a part of that.

If you have a relevant topic and target journal, go for it, but be prepared for it to take up a lot of your time.

Goodnight, sylvo.

...or eunuchs!!

Go to sleep and dream about your bevy of Australian beauties, sylvo.

And make you play in a bikini instead!

Or Germaine Greer?

And if we are going to be fair dinkum Aussie, we have to all have nicknames, preferably that end in 'o' sounds. So, I am Piggo, sylvester is Sylvo (or maybe Vestie), Ann is Anno (fact that it has more syllables than Ann is relevant), Tricky is Tricko, Coastman is Coasto or Coastie. Get it?

And tinnie is more commonly an aluminium boat used for fishing. Stubbies are beers. Mind you, stubbies are also really short shorts that blokes wore in the 70s and 80s.

Tinnies go in the esky, not the cooler. Jeez, don't you people know anything?

NO!!! No speedos!!! Budgie-smugglers are forbidden unless you are under the age of 5.

Woo hoo! We can go surfing later at Bells Beach!

Yay! But you lot are going to get mighty sleepy.

Tiff? I thought we were up to the making up part...and we all know what that involves, don't we? Wink wink...nudge nudge.

Still friends, Coastman?

Don't remember a Melissa.

Jane was Annie Jones in real life and she has just been in a series here where she plays the mum of a guy in his 20s, so not sure you want her anymore - might be a bit old. Will send Dannii, Cate and Kylie though.