Well, today I finished reading that thesis. I'm a little closer to deciding what project I will do now. Theses and papers are normally the most boring things to read, with difficult and important-sounding words substituted for easy to read words that mean the same thing. Sometimes they even use long words in the wrong context, which is even more confusing! Honestly, some of these papers could be about dinosaurs that shoot laser beams from their eyeballs being discovered in a remote part of the rainforest...and they'd still be boring. However, this thesis wasn't that bad - it was quite fun to read, which means it is possible to get a PhD without succumbing to words like "utilize". Yesterday I was shown the captive redback spiders, Latrodectus hasseltii, and they were verrry nice. We fed them
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