Wow, so I have been a bit incognito over the past two years while focusing on completing my Masters. And, now that I am finished I find myself back where I started. Here my blog. I was hoping the Masters would help me find a job in science, which I have been searching for ever since I left Uni in 2000. So that was 14 years ago and here I am still trying to find one but still not having the right experience. I have taught Science, but this doesn't seem to be the right kind of experience. I then tried to enter the field from a different direction by learning to program and manipulate data, but it appears experience doing pretty much the same thing, but under a different umbrella, is not exactly the right kind of experience either.
 
I constantly stumble across sites and watch programs where they question why more woman don't go into science, but frankly I have found it extremely difficult. I mean what does one have to do get the so called experience? Other than by knowing someone or pure luck? (If anyone stumbles across this and is willing to be my mentor, I would welcome the advice with open arms).

Perhaps its not my time and I have to be patient, perhaps I make excuses that sabotage my chances, or perhaps I haven't got what it takes. These are all of the thoughts that constantly swirl in my mind. Almost everyone in my circle is craft and art orientated so I find myself devoid of real scientists on a daily basis. I know I am a dreamer and a creative and perhaps this is my problem too. Mmmm ...

I know one thing for sure I always have hope. This is the reason behind my favourite Richard Feynman quote. Perhaps I just haven't explored enough. Who knows ... only the future has the answers.

The Biological acronym: LUCA

I hate acronyms because I can never remember what they stand for. So I thought perhaps if I turned them into some form of graphic I might remember the important ones better. So here is the very first for me to remember...

This tickled me today!

So its been ages ...

Why?

No reason ...

So what would you do if you could do anything?

I would, beg and plead with Tim Walker to be his assistant.

Its all about those magic numbers

So I have a competition to enter (just a general one in the are I live), nothing serious ... and I have been matching the trio's.
I have an idea of which one I will use but I am not entirely sure ...
Any ideas?









Also Today is the 11-11-11 so I am looking forward to filming a little something for the one day on earth project

Have a great Friday ...

My Halloween Costume

So here it is ... the costume that consumed my entire week last week.
I miss waking up early and going to bed late, planning and scheming and deciding which way best to continue with the next bit.
In the end it turned out better than expected and I managed to teach myself how to make a jacket from scratch albeit out of paper.



Yip, for the most part the costume was made out of paper and white thread.

There was everything from tissue paper, to crepe paper, doilies, some paper table cloths were used and some white poster paper ...

Then it was all topped off with a bit of face paint 'cest voila'.

Thanks Dave for taking instruction on how to take the photo for me :)

This 18th C character was the ghost of the paper doll called 'Paper Cuts'