Monday 22 October 2007
Angelina's Kitchen
Soon to come: a post about the day when Angelina made a whole lot of delicious food. Yum.
Geology Rocks!!
Man, I feel so clever for coming up with this pun-acious blog title.
Yesterday I went to Siccar Point with the Sedimentology Class (the same folks who brought you the Arran Field Excursion). For those of you non-geologists, here's my easy to understand description of Siccar Point: "It's a jaggedy 'angular unconformity' (slanted rock) that supports a theory that geology exists. Basically."
It's me, exciting to be at Siccar Point.
Now that's what I call Hutton's Unconformity!
Siccar Point is about 45 minutes about from Edinburgh, on the east coast of Scotland. To get there, you have to drive to a Turnip Farm, walk through a cow field, and then walk (or slide) down a slippery slope to this rocky area right on the coast.
While we were there, I saw two minks (those slippery animals that make expensive coats) and a huge seal poking his head out of the water.
After Siccar Point we went to another place on the coast (this time a sandy beach) and did some sedimentary logging. Boy, was there a lot of sandstone!
Yep, that's sandstone alright.
Yesterday I went to Siccar Point with the Sedimentology Class (the same folks who brought you the Arran Field Excursion). For those of you non-geologists, here's my easy to understand description of Siccar Point: "It's a jaggedy 'angular unconformity' (slanted rock) that supports a theory that geology exists. Basically."
It's me, exciting to be at Siccar Point.
Now that's what I call Hutton's Unconformity!
Siccar Point is about 45 minutes about from Edinburgh, on the east coast of Scotland. To get there, you have to drive to a Turnip Farm, walk through a cow field, and then walk (or slide) down a slippery slope to this rocky area right on the coast.
While we were there, I saw two minks (those slippery animals that make expensive coats) and a huge seal poking his head out of the water.
After Siccar Point we went to another place on the coast (this time a sandy beach) and did some sedimentary logging. Boy, was there a lot of sandstone!
Yep, that's sandstone alright.
No Glove, No Spread of Infectious Disease
Last week I had a lot of fun with StopAIDS, a society on campus that promotes AIDS awareness and raises money for charitable organizations.
On Thursday, everyone met up for a cake bake. The society had a bake sale on Friday, so we had to make all the yummy treats for patrons and passerbys. Because of space limitations in the kitchen, most of us were preparing condoms taped to candy and info flyers with facts about AIDS. About a thousand of these babies were handed out on Saturday night at the Big Cheese, a popular club night at the student union. We all dressed in red (coats, stockings, dresses, facepaint, etc) and handed out condoms/candy to people in the queue. They went surprisingly quickly! Everyone was eager to learn about AIDS and safe sex. (More likely they wanted a piece of candy.) After passing out condoms for about 2 minutes (seriously, hundreds of condoms in 2 minutes!!), we headed up to the club to dance to cheesy music like Spice Girls and *NSYNC (they don't call it the Big Cheese for nothing).
P.S. Did anyone notice the inaccuracy in the title of this post? I sure didn't for a few hours.
On Thursday, everyone met up for a cake bake. The society had a bake sale on Friday, so we had to make all the yummy treats for patrons and passerbys. Because of space limitations in the kitchen, most of us were preparing condoms taped to candy and info flyers with facts about AIDS. About a thousand of these babies were handed out on Saturday night at the Big Cheese, a popular club night at the student union. We all dressed in red (coats, stockings, dresses, facepaint, etc) and handed out condoms/candy to people in the queue. They went surprisingly quickly! Everyone was eager to learn about AIDS and safe sex. (More likely they wanted a piece of candy.) After passing out condoms for about 2 minutes (seriously, hundreds of condoms in 2 minutes!!), we headed up to the club to dance to cheesy music like Spice Girls and *NSYNC (they don't call it the Big Cheese for nothing).
P.S. Did anyone notice the inaccuracy in the title of this post? I sure didn't for a few hours.
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