Yeah. Bizarrely, I don't update this enough because my life is boring. I have one exam left of my second year of uni, which is terrifying on so many levels, but also kinda awesome. I truly do enjoy uni most of the time, and I should be studying for Genetic Analysis, which I will after updating this, then feeding Tally. 

Speaking of Tally, he's....he's Tally. After his two months of lameness, I pulled his shoes, and he mysteriously came sound. So yay. No shoes. However, he then got sore in front, so I bought him some hoof boots, so he got sore behind, so he's now shod behind and booted in front. My farrier thinks I'm insane. It's fun. He's been behaving pretty well recently, until I started randomly falling off, and now he's taken to stopping violently and throwing me off, so that's going to be the new training challenge. I contacted my jumping instructor from last year, so that should hopefully nip our issues in the bud. Hopefully I might get him out this summer. I did have an amusing conversation with someone, where we determined he's the equine version of a sociopath. Fantastic. 

Aside from that, my life really isn't that exciting. I have a new flatmate for next year, and switching flat stuff over is so stressful. Grr. Not a fan!

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 So, life has been fairly boring as of recently. Everything is going well, but that doesn't exactly make for thrilling blogging. The Horse has recovered from his mystery respiratory illness and is back in work. He's currently living up to his fetlocks in a charming mix of mud and water. Thus is winter. Oh, and he needs his mane pulled. I'm rocking through semester 2 of year 2 of my Biochem/Genetics degree, and aside from a few moments of gentle homicidal rage directed at my biochem lab reports, it all seems to be going swimmingly. 

TV wise, which apparently, is the most exciting part of my life at the moment, I've watched five seasons worth of JAG in the past three weeks. It's not healthy. Harm is adorable, Mac is awesome, and I truly and utterly need to get a life. Aside from that, the series final of Sea Patrol was probably the first episode which actually....didn't make me laugh because it was crap. Mike and Kate are adorable, and I want to squish them. I still have no idea where that ship came from. Rescue Special Ops continues its merry way in being quite possibly the crappest, most addictive thing I watch on a regular basis. True Blood is like a slightly ADHD porno. Seriously, someone join with me in counting how many storylines are in a single episode of that, because I always lose one or two, and then someone ends up naked. Sherlock is quite possibly my new, unhealthy obsession, especially because it only had three episodes, and I now like something written by Mark Gatiss, which terrifies me on a very deep level.

Now, I am going to bed to watch City Homicide. Yes. My life is that sad. Plus City Homicide is funny because it's a) incredibly sexist and b) all the detectives wear hilarious, varying shades of pastel. They're also probably the least 'detective looking' bunch of cops I've seen. 

 Apparently, this holidays, I've taken a step back from my DVD obsession, although I am watching Farscape, and True Blood, and Sea Patrol, and Rescue Special Ops (eclectic mix much?), but I also have been reading, a lot. So. I need book recommendations, because I'm running out of just picking things that look and sound pretty. I will read pretty much anything, as long as it has a decent storyline and good characterisation, and good writing. The first person to suggest Twilight will be taken out the back and shot. 

    

So yeah. Weird mix. Any suggestions will be noted down! 

It's not exactly Four Weddings and a Funeral (which actually does come into the comparison!), but here is my completely factless, utterly biased comparison between the season 5's of Criminal Minds and Bones, and the series 5 (or 1, or 31, depending on your point of view, but let's go with 5 for comparison sake) of Doctor Who. I would also like to point out, I haven't actually seen all of the Bones season 5, or Criminal Minds season 5, which probably says something in itself.  

This means life is very exciting. Apparently, chasing cows was just too exciting for Tally as his nasty habit of bucking when excited came back to bite (and land me) on my arse. However, after a little over a week in work, he currently looks like this: 

 Well, according to Izzy, I don't update this enough. This is probably true, considering my last entry was August, 2009. I'm not going to update my life, because that really would be incredibly tedious, plus I have a mind like a sieve, and probably cannot remember major life events.  

I have just seen the Pandorica Opens, and that involved some epic major flails. Steven Moffat, I bow down to your finale-writing expertise, because that was probably my favourite part one of a Doctor Who final so far. However, I do not like actually having to wait for the next episode, and I see the definite bonuses to watching things on DVD. 

Aside from my utter obsession with the Eleventh Doctor, which is not healthy, and does not endear me to the saner members of the community, my life really isn't very exciting. My horse has been lame for the past couple of months, and hopefully will get x-rayed next week for potential degenerative foot problems. This is compounded by the fact he seems to have finally gotten over his napping and actually won an ODE on his dressage score. So of course, he had to come up with a new problem. 

Aside from that, I'm into my second year of a BSc majoring in Biochemistry and Genetics, which I am really rather enjoying. I have a fairly awesome flatmate, who is currently making me a new layout for this thing, and I'm on holidays, so I think I might retreat back to bed with Sherlock Holmes (the book, not the movie), and my cross-stitch. 

I must draw everyone's attention to this. It is from the 70s/80s, from Australia and is called Patrol Boat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjZK4n6FZQg

Does it give everyone else the same vibes it gives me?

Aside from that, life is good. I'm home for the uni holidays, and some studying has happened but most of it is a bit of a productiveness! fail at the moment. I've been rewatching Doctor Who, which is a mite sad, but it's so pretty. I've also been watching a lot of Fringe, courtesy of a huge Fringe marathon Christina and I had, which was undeniably fun, but screwed with our brains a bit/a lot. I've also been watching Monarch of the Glen with Mum, which is hilarious.

Aside from that, life is all going well. I'm enjoying my courses at uni, although Biometrics and Commsci are boring. Biochem is interesting, and Chem is fun. The horses are all well, if a little insane.

And it is time for Outrageous Fortune.
 

...that you're a geek, when you look up, and above you is:

a) A Newton's Cradle
b) Three copies of both the Philosopher's Stone and the Chamber of Secrets, two of the Prisoner of Azkaban and the Goblet of Fire, and one each of the other three
c) Leather-bound copies of Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit sitting next to far too many biochemistry textbooks
d) Doctor Who DVDs
e) An HMAS Hammersley cap
f) A t-shirt with a picture of the TARDIS which announces "You never forget your first Doctor".

Plus behind you is a Torchwood poster, a Doctor Who poster, two Lord of the Rings posters and two X-Files posters. You are drinking tea from a Torchwood mug and contemplating watching more of the original Star Trek.

Gotta love the feeling of mild insanity.
 

I honestly never thought I'd say that but.....

( Yes. That is really what it looks like. )