Joking not choking

Wil
i bought chocolate today
but it's dark!
so slighty more healthy
nom

Megan
ha at CPR/first aid training they showed us youtube videos of a muffin-eating competition gone wrong and someone started choking

Wil
antioxidants?
oh that doesn't sound very good..

Megan
dark chocolate makes everything better

Wil
it's like people who try to justify drinking alcohol for the 'antioxidants'

Megan
I was scared while watching it because it was a bunch of people seated around the table going ape and rah rah rah let's scoff muffins
and I was worried they would be too stupid to know what to do
and when the girl started choking they gave her a glass of water
sooooo worried
ha antioxidants! of course that makes drinking better, what are you on about >.> <.<

Wil
muffins are such a horrible food to race on. They're fluffy and dry and crumbly. Easiest food to choke on!

Megan
but then they did the upward thrust (nearly typed pelvic thrust) and she lived
hooray!

Wil
ha
huzzah
the gene pool is contaminated once more

Megan
SHE'S CHOKING! QUICK! *pelvic thrusts*

Wil
HA xP
we should just start doing that randomly on the street

Megan
XD
LOL
YES let's do that

Wil
okay next time i see you i expect one of us to bring this up!

Megan
Okay!
I'll pretend to be dying on the street and you can start dancing

Wil
ha
dancing bordering on sexual harrassment

Megan
hmm what if I do start dying in the middle of it
you would think I was joking not choking!

Wil
hopefully i would recognise it when you started to become cyanoic  

University of Auckland Optom parody Ret City & Give me 6/6 Vision tonight remix

This is the kind of stuff my class gets up to when we're meant to be studying.

Props to my friend Vicky who wrote it and directed it and then put it together. 

Gotta love the Kiwi slang, and cameo appearances by the lecturers. 

It turns out we're on the New Zealand Association of Optometrist's website. Wooo, mean! World famous in Optometrists' circles. Which are still kind of small, but it's about quality and not quantity (or some saying like that).

Evanescence is coming to town

Wil:


Evanescence are coming to Auckland for one show only at Vector Arena *cue fanboy screams*

Their show is on March 31st 2012, which will probably be the most exciting day of the year for me! (maybe except for graduation).



Tickets are $100 from TicketMaster!

I've got my ticket, have you?

I see blood(sugar)

This is way too cool.

There is this

and also imagine if contact lenses could, somehow, tag items so when things go missing, little arrows in your eyes would just literally point you in the right direction. I'd totally get a pair!

Antifungal paints

Wil: Oh yup. Just had morning tea. Gossip gossip. Apparently our floor is "infested" with fungal spores -_-

Me: Oh? Are the ceilings mouldy? Ooh I've been wondering, if we paint bathroom ceilings with ergosterol, would mould grow?

Wil: Ergosterol paint?

Me: Or ergosterol mixed into paint xP

Wil: Why ergosterol? It has no antifungal properties.

Me: Oh! Was it for yeast? Oops my bad. What about amphotericin!

Me: I SWEAR ergosterol was for something fungussy...

Wil: Ergosterol is the "cholesterol" of fungal cell membranes. Are there paints with amphotericin in it?

Me: oh... so it needs ergosterol! I remember now. And no there probably isn't, but we could make our own!

Wil: Where would you get amphotericin? It's an antifungal drug that's used in life threatening fungal infections.

Me: Don't ask me! You're the pharmacist!

Me: Or azoles!

Wil: I know where *I* would get amphotericin. I'm asking where *you* would get it from for the purposes of making antifungal paint. A doctor will not prescribe it for that purpose.

Wil: Aren't there commercially available antifungal paints?

Me: I'll get it off you! haa. Are there? dang, and I thought it was a new idea! XP

Wil: Where did the idea of mixing drugs into paint come from? It's not as straight forward as one might think. Paint probably isn't very friendly to the stability of drugs.

Me: I've been joking the whole way, I hope you know :P

Wil: No I didn't know you were joking. I take drug questions very seriously :P

Me: Well actually I was half-joking and wondering if it'd actually work xP

Me: Guess there's always the option of rubbing azole creams on the ceiling.

Wil: Ha although I think your concept isn't entirely silly. I'm willing to bet that people have wondered the same thing before. Rubbing cream won't do anything. Fungal infestations usually go deep into the wall/ceiling.

Me: Oh what, really! I thought it was all superficial! Outside-in. Darn!

Wil: Nope. It's why it's quite difficult to get fungal wall infestations cleared. Boo.

Me: How lame! Hmmm which agars are fungus-limiting?

Wil: I'm not sure. I'm not an expert on culture agars. I guess ones with higher pH like tryptic soy would reduce fungal growth.

Me: High pH! Of course! Vinegar-releasing humidifiers!!!

Wil: I would hate to think what a constantly high pH would do to the rest of the room though!

Me: Dissolve the wallpaper?

Wil: Possibly.

*

This was a very good scientific discussion.

A new purse

Me: I go out to buy presents for others' 21st and end up with stuff for myself.

Wil: ha buy me presents! What did you get?

Me: A new purse!

Wil: Just what I needed!

Me: I don't think you'd appreciate the purse for yourself :P It's about the size of the Oracle cards and has embroidered leaves and a rose on it!

Wil: I appreciate roses!


I didn't know that.

Pretty homogenous

Very observant of Wil:

"I'm in the staff room for morning tea. I've noticed that the microbiology/immunology department is a pretty homogenous group - they're all white!"