Mongolia vs. The Maldives

So,

We were thinking the other day about the people in Mongolia freezing their butts off and cooking their food using yak poo or whatever (I dunno, TB was sharing some insight based on very loose knowledge he learnt from watching David Attenbourgh.)  

And it's like, well, why dont they just stop sitting around trying to pass time in the freezing cold and move somewhere else?!!  I mean, C'MON guys!  Don't DO that to yourselves!

But then, I thought, well the people who live in the Maldives - yo u know, where you hang out in the sun, swim and fish all day - are probably thinking about the people in Melbourne "Whaaaa t are you doing there?!! Don't DO that to yourselves!!"

But here in melbourne, it doesn't even enter our heads to up and move to the Maldives.  So, arguably, the people in Mongolia wouldn't think about up and moving to Melbourne.

My new PhD topic is about: the migrating habits of the native peoples of Mongolia in comparison with the people of the Maldives, and how these trends impact our living conditions and discourse in the inner suburbia of Melbourne.

I really feel that this will contribute to the knowledge bank of our society.  Particularly the bit where I get to travel to interview the Maldivian people.

Postscript: I entirely understand I have used very subjective and emotionally loaded visual representations of entire nations to make a loose, unsupported argument.  Perhaps I would make a better journalist on Today Tonight than a PhD student.

S-dogg's birthday

My friend S-face has her bday today and has decided that she doesn't like my pseudonyms she has on my blog. Apparently. "Dorny" "S-doggs" "S-face" and "Man" are all too macho. Okay, so i never call her "Man" thats just to rile her up.

Better than "up-at-the-crack-a" as well.

So anyway, perhaps from now on I will call her Sponge.

Because she has spongey ear plugs. And she absorbs love wherever she goes. Awwwww. Not in a bad way. In a good, absorbent way. When you squeeze her, she drips love, so you better hold her over the sink.

In other news, T-rav and I have been discussing the awkward nature of the 'first pash.'

That's all for now.

mermaid/merman

In my latest wedding dream which I forgot to record,

TB for our engagement party ordered a cake which was a Mermaid/Merman cake with little icing figurines of him a merman and me as a mermaid.
I was so upset but he'd gone to all this effort and i didn't want to offend his family because they helped pay for it.

Yeah, weird.

In other news, I am not at series 7 of The West Wing (TWW) which is not as good as the other series, but still gripping me in its dramatic ways. Will Toby go to jail? or gaol?
Will Donna return and confess her undying love for Josh?
Will Santos crush Vinnick in election victory?!


The writers have said that the links to the current presidential election and TWW Series 7 are scary - and its true - the characters and situations are frighteningly similar. Which is why, according to TWW, we can expect an Obama victory.
Today when someone asked me who i backed in the election i said "I'm barracking for Obama." i didnt realise my own pun until i remembered "Barack Obama." What an unintentional Dad joke!

Before that though, I went on for a big rave about how i'm actually an AUSTRALIAN and I'll be voting in the next election which is in THREE YEARS. So yeah, the American president might have some sway over our politics, but would all these people give me a break?! I'm AUSTRALIAN. I've been living with America having a doofus president for most of my life - no, ALL of my life - so if they vote in another one, I don't think it'll change me much.