Today was my first day back in class in for the semester. It was fun and interesting, in a brain melty kind of way. The units I'm studying this semester are a mix of chemistry, OHS, testing procedures and various lab techniques. I've set the Periodic Table as my desktop wallpaper in hopes it might sink in.

The units seem spilt into two categories of students; older people who are retraining and school leavers who failed TEE. I'm stuck in the middle. I spent lunch with two older ladies, they chatted about bad sex and their multiple boyfriends, I nodded at various points while eating my fruit salad and thinking about Protons.

Things I learnt in lab today...

1. Sucking up Hydrochloric Acid from a pipette with your mouth, instead on using a valve, will cause your teeth to fizz. My lecturer did this back when he was a student.
2. That the emergency eye wash station isn't adequate and to use the one in the lab down the hall in an eye emergency.
3. That we get to play with awesome acidic chemicals soon.
4. That my bad hard writing and poor memory are traits of a good scientist.

Things I didn't learn in lab today...

1. The weird name of the woman who sat next to me, even though she told me it five times. Sounded like Rohypnol.
2. How we're meant to find the lab down the hall that contains the proper emergency eye wash station if our eyes are being burnt by chemicals and we're screaming "fuck, my eyes, they burnnnn!" I've never had dangerous lab chemicals come into close proximity with my eyes, but I assume it would be hard to see in that instance.
3. Why we were forced to endure a lab safety video that was filmed in the 80's and clearly targeted at high school level or really stupid adults who should never set foot in a lab.
4. Why Michael Jackson is white.

Holy crap, I am featured at #2 on G4tv's Attack of the Show Women of the Web segment this week. I don't think there is an appropriate swear word to really express what I went through my mind when I watched the above video.

I did spot two mistakes; my domain isn't kitta.com (last time I checked it's owned by a Russian company that makes warheads for submarines and I've tried to contact them about buying the domain for years) and it's spelt 'Nikita', but all is forgiven because they said I'm a nerds dream.

Which really sucks. I finally found a boyfriend called Wanky who loves me, even though I'm a dude, and then I suddenly died according to Maxpower.

I have so many questions... How did I die? Was it a terrible high-heel related accident? Why did my beloved Wanky find out about my death at a variety of ass forum? Was there delicious cake at my funeral? Why was Fiona the only person to send @reply condolences? And why can I still post to my blog even though I'm dead?

The internet life is so confusing.

Also present for the recording was Devar, Richard and Antz with his BIG THING, meanwhile the cooler kids - Lulu, Simone, Keg and Justin - can be heard in the background, laughing and throwing random objects at us.

Topics we discussed and made fun of were; Little Big Planet, Rock Band (and why it's not out in Australia yet), Blizzcon, Jack Thompson (and my theory on what he does at night with hookers), Mods on Steam, Wario Land: Shake it, Warhammer Online, Brothers In Arms, Mercenaries 2, Lego Batman (and what other things we want to be legofied), Guitar Hero Aerosmith, Burnout Paradise & bike pack, Red Alert 3, Heroes (and why I love future bondage Claire), True Blood, Knight Rider (and why it sucked), and Top Gear Australia. We also mused about the short film shot on the Canon 5D Mk2 and the Google phone.

Once we were done recording we moved on to the gaming portion of the night, paying Buzz and Singstar. It was a fun night that finally ended around 4am, after we all became hungry and noticed the time. I finally collapsed in bed around 6am, just as the sun filtered through my window and the birds tweeted annoyingly.

If you want to listen to 'The Boycott' Leetbix episode, you can do so by subscribing via iTunes or clicking over to the Leetbix website to downloading it. More photos and videos from the event can be found on my Flickr and on Antz gallery.

Disclaimer: I was slightly tipsy; I would like to apologise to WoW players that don't have a life, dead hookers, hookers in general, people who don't know what computers are, cam whores, the girl from Passions, and anyone else I may have offended during the recording. The Penfolds Tawny Port made me do it.

Speaking of girly, one of my birthday presents was a pink camera.

It all started a month ago when my family asked me what I desired for my birthday, besides an electron microscope, I told them I wanted a shiny new camera. My family took me camera shopping after I had a few glasses of wine at lunch and I started flirting with the sales guy to obtain a further discount on the sale price. It totally worked. But the only Canon IXUS80 IS (also known as the Powershot SD1100 IS) in stock was in pink.

It does take nice pictures (of my tipsy self) though.

I want to say a big thank you to everyone who sent me birthday well wishes via email, Twitter, Facebook, DM's, PM's, SMS's, flying monkeys, phone calls, etc. You made me feel very loved and I'm grateful to have so many wonderful people in my life.