I got to do a presentation to my BBF’s middle/high schoolers in Texas on Australian animals. Which meant I got to talk about how they “changed over time to adapt to their environment” and how “increased temperatures, drought and natural disasters” were likely to lead to extinctions. ;) ;) ;)

Cute bulldog tho.

I enjoyed MI:Tom Cruise Needs Money, but what a sausage fest. One bad-ass female spy, two promptly killed female bit parts. They couldn’t bring back Paula Patton instead of Jeremy Raisin?

I don’t have any specific advice, but I highly recommend checking out captainawkward.com and her archive. She has great advice on ending friendships (giving an African violet) and dealing with friends with mental illness. Good luck!

Michael Phelps: would.

I'm gonna need a diagram or something for that Sister Wives debacle.

George Lazenby was an Australian Bond.

I work 30 hours a week over five days in admin for a consulting company. It definitely makes me a much happier human being, and I think I'm just as productive as a full time person. But I'm also very lucky that I can afford to do this in a workplace that allows it.

Not a single one... Really?

I’m a failed marine biologist. I work in admin and tech now and I love it. Maybe think about some aspect of your studies you enjoyed and try to find similar work: research, organisation. Whatever.

If you haven’t already seen The Babadook yet, do it.

So it probably wouldn't be appropriate to put this on my public Christmas wish list. Damn.

I use a travel agent because I'm lazy. Why spend hours on the web looking for airfares, when someone does it for me and it costs the same? I ❤️ Flight Centre.

Harsh, but fair.

I read Kleypas’ Suddenly You for my very first romance novel. Damn that book was so so good.

Austen isn't my cup of tea, but this looks fun as hell.

Yes! The fillet thing drives me nuts; you don’t get tickets to see the “ball-it”.

Australians regularly butcher the pronunciation of languages (including English, bless their hearts), but Mexican food is the worst. So I got a pleasant surprise one day when a mother in the grocery store corrected her daughter by saying “it’s not ‘tor-til-las’, it’s pronounced ‘tor-ti-yas’. Two ls in Spanish sounds…

I interned at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and frequented Archie’s Diner a block away in Pacific Grove. They have the BEST garlic fries you can imagine. But I had to avoid any work that involved using a respirator after lunch to prevent recirculating my own garlic breath.