some musings on volcanos and gifts

I love learning things. Tonight i am watching a tv program about the recent volcano in Iceland. I am much a nerd. I LOVE all the details. Second only to my interest in vulcanology is glaciology and then Egyptology. This program (http://www.abc.net.au/tv/guide/netw/201007/programs/ZX1245A001D2010-07-15T213000.htm)
is really interesting because it is half science and half the study of the implications of a volcano on us (or daily life). The reactions of people to natural disasters are so fascinating. You would think it was all designed to be inconvenient. The thing is that the natural world doesn’t even know we are here. Well i work with sea ice, satellites and computers so i guess i am use to things....oh hang on they are explaining Lidar...i LOVE that someone is doing that!!

I LOVE working with remotely sensed data and understanding what story they have to tell.

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You probably don’t know this little fact about me. it is that i am the only person who can make my mother loose her temper. I am ashamedly proud of that. My mother never raises her voice or gets properly cross. I do it all the time. Even on my own. With just my own company. You should just hear me go off at myself. I once made her so cross she threw a vacuum cleaner at me. The wheel fell off. I may have then laughed. I am SURE this did nothing to calm anyone’s temper.

I am not sure i am suppose to mention the vacuum cleaner incident. No i take that back. I KNOW i am not allowed to bring it up. Not like she ever reads this blog.

*pause*

So if you know my mum please don’t bring it up.

*nod*

I was thinking about this because i have been trying to figure out what skills i have that are unique and worthy. Apart from being the one person who can piss my mother off (without even really trying). Another skill is an ability to converse with shop keepers and people waiting in queues with me. Yeah i know. I can’t figure that one out either.

Why can’t i have some amazing and cool gift?

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so i think i am going to make a list of things i like doing and find something new to do. See. Decision made. I am SURE things are going to be better now

*grin*