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You Can Be A Woman

I’m a microbiologist, and I work in a microbiology lab, but my supervisor is actually technically an oceanographer – that’s what he got his doctorate and so forth in, and that’s why our lab works with deep-sea microorganisms. It’s also … Continue reading

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Doing and Being

Last Sunday was Father’s Day in the US, although not in New Zealand, for whatever reason – it turns out that Father’s Day and Mother’s Day are fairly arbitrarily placed throughout the year depending on where you are in the … Continue reading

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Oh, Christ

One thing I’m really missing about home this week is the anticipation of the long Easter weekend – although it’s the beginning of proper warm weather here, rather than the last blush of anything resembling summer, a four-day weekend seems … Continue reading

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