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so far off?

Strata being rock layers :)

The science of strations?

Also the best place to see stratigraphy is in streambeds :D Where the rocks are wet. And where you get wet also.

Thank Glod for waterproof notebooks, is all I can say!

or they'll erode.

That's probably not 'high maintenance' except by the standards of geologists. But let's face it, when you're surrounded by awesome rocks, who has the time or interest to do something as boring as washing?

As of April 30th.

they'd be half rotten and covered with mouse droppings?

And for your sister, it sounds like she likes to live high maintenance? :D

Yeah I shower when I'm at home. Not when I'm staying in a shack, cos they don't usually have them.

I took my sister to one of our field stations once. She called it a 'shit little hut'. I was shocked, because after all, this was our swankiest field station; it had both showers AND toilets!

And I presume you shower at some point between rolling in and out of bed? Or is the mud bath enough?

I roll out of bed, I go to uni, I look at rocks, I come home, I cook curry, I go to bed, I roll out of bed, I go to uni, I look at rocks ...

Sometimes to liven things up I roll out of bed earlier, I put on my most disgusting clothes, I go to a cliff in the middle of nowhere, I look at rocks, I coat myself liberally in mud by accident, I come home, I cook curry, I go to bed ... :P

Geology is a fine profession for people who can only remember esoteric data, who like heavy lifting, mud, long walks, mud, situations with a high likelihood of personal injury, mud, complicated machinery and mud, and who don't mind things like sleeping for a week on a foam mattress in a half-rotten shack with mouse droppings on every surface :D

... I wish I was exaggerating about the shack with the mousedroppings, but I'm really not.

far better than Encyclopaedia Dramatica.

So, do you have those issues with "Tuesday Morning"? Maybe I should become a geologist. I can't remember anything.

If I'm honest, I just have issues with periods of time shorter than ten thousand years.

Uncyclopaedia tells the truth when it says 'One of the main difficulties in communicating with geologists is their belief that a million years is a short amount of time and their heads are harder than rocks. Consequently, such abstract concepts as "Tuesday Morning" and Lunchtime are completely beyond their comprehension. (This difficulty generates problems particularly when dealing with the girlfriend/boyfriend/spouse and attempting to explain why you were "gone for so long" or why something is taking "so long to occur.")'

I feel sorry for you. I have that trouble too, but I've never forgotten my age or the year (once memorised). Maybe you should carry your birth certificate/passport everywhere with you?

Party's on the other board. Happy birthday Krisprolls!

Let the party never end.

... I'd just spent five hours in the lab drawing specimens, and I came back up to my office, and someone, randomly, asked me how old I was, and I said '22. No, wait, I might be 23 ...' and my friend helpfully said 'Well, what year were you born?'

ME:'...'

FRIEND: '1985? 86? 87?'

ME: '... what year is it?'

FRIEND: '...'

ME: '... *little voice* I could draw you a diagram of the bivalve heterodont hinge if you like?...'

I think there's only a finite amount of space in any one brain, that's my theory. And that just happened to be the bit that got pushed out that day.

Who's old now? :P

they're all screwed when it comes to the archery contest...

I forget too. It tends to take me up to six months to remember that we've changed year if I'm writing down a date. This year was odd though. I memorised it in two days. Crazy.

January 4th, 1991.

It's a Trek reference (a Klingon called Kirk a Denebian Slime Devil). I got the impression it was slimy.

Sorry. If it's a reference, I didn't get it.

it's San Fransico. And Fantastic Four damaged London. As did 28 Weeks Later (which firebombed it). :D

But it sounds like an interesting film.

It's extremely rare, but I've encountered two parodies in the Star Wars section. Parodies of the crap on the rest of the site. :D

There's also a decently written torture story (I think. It's been a while since I read it) which, as far as I can remember, had no issues but the usual AFF format screwups (where words merge etc) and the sexual element and a bit of fandom-breaking stuff (it was Jaina Solo being tortured to death by a sentient ship that Anakin Skywalker had pissed off and being raped by her lightsabre).

There was also a Tomb Raider fic which was decently written. It was a "Lara dies every single chapter because that's what happens in-game" fic. It was very amusing to read the comments whining about the lack of sexual content. As one comment said in response, while AFF is usually used for porn, there's no rule saying there has to be porn.