Have you ever had one of those days where odd and unexpected things seem to happen continuously? Well admittedly, neither have I, but odd and unexpected things have been pilling up lately... (it should be noted that these events are odd and no surreal as helpfully pointed out by Adam Hills here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNFbG75hS5Q)

For instance...

A few weeks ago, I discovered that I don't have opposable thumbs. Most normal peopla have two joints in thier thumbs. This helps them grip things, write and freak a large number of people out if they happen to be extra lucky and double jointed. But in a small number of people one of the joints is fused and, tragically, results in a reduced ability to function... or so some people may think (...ok so perhaps I made that last bit up...).

But I say "poo" to them!

I thought I was normal! I play violin! I write! I still freak people out....possibly because i'm "no-jointed" (yeah... made that up to... but I like it) and it's weird... but hey - we don't have to focus on that.

Anway, the odd thing about this entire incident was not only that I discovered it was weird after 20 years of living, but that another of my friends dixcovered the same thing in the same conversation! This resulted in a "no-jointed" high-five and rather strange command from a "normal" person to never, under any circumstances, have children...

Secondly, lately I've been getting weird emails from a hybrid half crocodile, half platypus named (creatively) croco-pus. Apparently he got lost after ETC and now wants the Science and Nursing faculty at CREDO to sing him and song.

So basically, we're being blackmailed by a giant stuffed animal in a SaN t-shirt...

Great

Lastly... it occured to me last thursday that I'm learning how to synthesise illegeal drugs...




Ok so I should really expand on that one hey....

I'm doing a subject at Uni called "Chemistry and Pharmacology of Illicit Drugs" where we literally learn how to synthesise things like ice and speed and then get told not to because we will get arrested.

Seriously, last Thursday I was sitting in my lecture and our teacher suddenly pauses in his explanation of the various clandestine routes of synethsis of methamphetamine and says something along the lines of "and this was quite popular with bikie gangs in the 70s"

I'm going to let you all just think about that for a bit and see if you develop the same mental picture as I have...