Met the boy. Had pho. And a juice. It was sunny. I liked it.
Yearly Archives: 2014
Had to Walk the City-to-Bay “Fun” Run cus I’m such a Sloth
I walked 12km today. It was tough, and now I’m quite sore! The City-to-Bay was on and no I didn’t run it but as my friend was giving away a walking entry I decided to give it a go.
Did it in 2 hours too, which wasn’t bad I thought. Not sloth-like at all!
I hate running. A lot. And I never want to get “good” at it because it would mean putting myself through hell just to be able to do it, and why would I want to do something that makes me feel so much absolute shite!?
Footy Prelims
So my team got knocked out of the finals tonight, Port went down to Hawthorn by 3 points. Disappointing, but what a tense match! Boo 
Slothy Evolution
More slothy info for you all! Apparently, sloth evolution wasn’t so… well, SLOTHY… after all. More than 50 different sloth species used to exist! Can you imagine!!?? Now there’s only 6 left.
In times past, there was actually a trend towards sloths evolving to be LARGER over a very short period of time, but due to various unknown events in history, the only sloths that survived to modern day are those that were small and that lived in the trees. Here’s the link to the Journal Article in BMC Evolutionary Biology, or the lay summary of sloth evolution by IFLS, or a short snippet and pics on Buzzfeed.
Lucy Cooke on Sloths
Lucy Cooke, author of A Little Book of Sloth and The Power of Sloth, wrote this awesome article for The Idler: http://idler.co.uk/article/lucy-cooke-on-the-amazing-sloth/
It wasn’t until the seventeenth century, after years of arguing, the Holy powers-that-be finally decided on its definitive top seven sins. And sloth snuggled in at number four…
It was thanks to celebrated French naturalist Georges Buffon that the moniker really stuck, when he became the first person to scientifically describe the sloth in 1749: ‘Slowness, habitual pain, and stupidity are the results of this strange and bungled conformation. These sloths are the lowest form of existence. One more defect would have made their lives impossible.’
It’s lucky the sloth is such an affable chap. And doesn’t read or speak French because, if he did, I’m sure that even he would struggle to swallow such slurs without a (very slow) fight.
Conference Sloth
I’m in Sydney for a 3 day conference at Manly. The hotel is right on the beach and it’s beautiful weather here; almost makes you want to skip a day full of seminars! Doza has been helping me with some trans-state work before bedtime.
Spring makes me Drowsy
The boy and I just got back from a lazy walk around a park along the riverbank. It is sunny and warm and now we’re back home and I’m feeling mighty drowsy. Not hayfever or anything, just the lovely warm “equilibrium” weather soaking in after a long Winter. Good dose of Vitamin D too. Feel v. good and happy. Maybe this is part of why sloths are so slow, because they spend their days in the sun and the warm?
United Sloths of America
This week was the 13th anniversary of 9/11. Just thought it was worth a post. I didn’t know anyone involved in the tragedy that unfolded on that fateful day, but nevertheless still feel for all people affected by terrorism throughout the world. Right now in Oz there is a “high” terrorism risk, and whilst I’m not worried by that at this point in time, one still questions why people do the things they do.
World peace might happen one day! I hope I’m still around to see it.
Mount Slothmore by S.Watercolour.
Manicure
Got mah nails did today, in preparation for my trip away on Sunday. Heading to Sydney for a 3 day conference. Looking forward to it! Anyway, I don’t usually get manicures. In fact I’ve only ever had one before. The main reason I got one (besides wanting to impress science peeps) was because my nails are actually pretty long and nice at the moment on account of the fact that I haven’t had to cut them for netball.
It was weird! Here’s me in the beauty parlour, trying to chat with the cute Asian girl filing my digits, and everyone else was silent and staring at me, like, judging me for talking. There was one guy in the whole place (at the reception desk) who had like this harem of women all wearing pink and face masks and not talking. Yeah. Weird.
Maybe I should grow my nails super long like a sloth so I can hang upside down with them? Usefulness as well as prettiness!
Sloth Mousepad
Sooo… ArtsCow had a special on, and I decided I needed a sloth mousepad! LOOK HOW AMAZING IT IS!!! Now I won’t be able to get any work done because as soon as I move my mouse off THIS FACE I will just MELT! GAHHH!!