Mt Buffalo!
So we headed to Victoria the past week, to a climbing area 7 hours away called Mt Buffalo. Gorgeous area, granite, loads of slabs and cracks, so chances of me re-injuring my fingees were minimal. C
Getting there: Very hot. Sat around in undies in the car with truck drivers perving on me. Need airconditioning.
Day 1: Climbed heaps. Saw a rock wallaby, cockatoos (white and black), galahs, king parrots, rosallas. Got attacked by fire ants.
Day 2: Rode our road bikes down the 30km hill - 40 mins drive up, 12 mins down by bike, going very fast. Belayed Mikl on a few scary things. Saw a lyre bird.
Day 3: More climbing, then headed to the local alpine wine festival and gave myself a headache as I hadn't hydrated enough.
Day 4: More climbing, stumbled around looking for things for many hours as the guidebook sucks dogs bottoms. Got attacked by fire ants (again), although not as bad as Mikl did. Was on the slipperyest corner known by man and was half way up when it started raining. Couldn't use any of the walls, managed to crawl up the crack without putting any more gear in. Got scared. Saw a black snake.
Day 5: Drove back at 130km/h in driving rain (remnants of a cyclone). Got scared again (possibly scarred for life)
We have since put air conditioning in the car - converted the old freon system for a many hundreds of consecutive dollars.
In other news, someone from my recently departed job stole the work from my research project and tried to publish it as primary author. This from the person who many times refused to discuss the work with me, said they weren't intersted at all in the research, but at the same time stopped me from doing an experiment by running away with the equipment and insulting my gender. Also refused to let any one else in on the project, even when they were actually interested in contributing. Spent today re-writing their ridiculous manuscript and most of last night drafting angry but politically correct letters to my nice ex-boss. Will see where I get, this could get messy.....
Getting there: Very hot. Sat around in undies in the car with truck drivers perving on me. Need airconditioning.
Day 1: Climbed heaps. Saw a rock wallaby, cockatoos (white and black), galahs, king parrots, rosallas. Got attacked by fire ants.
Day 2: Rode our road bikes down the 30km hill - 40 mins drive up, 12 mins down by bike, going very fast. Belayed Mikl on a few scary things. Saw a lyre bird.
Day 3: More climbing, then headed to the local alpine wine festival and gave myself a headache as I hadn't hydrated enough.
Day 4: More climbing, stumbled around looking for things for many hours as the guidebook sucks dogs bottoms. Got attacked by fire ants (again), although not as bad as Mikl did. Was on the slipperyest corner known by man and was half way up when it started raining. Couldn't use any of the walls, managed to crawl up the crack without putting any more gear in. Got scared. Saw a black snake.
Day 5: Drove back at 130km/h in driving rain (remnants of a cyclone). Got scared again (possibly scarred for life)
We have since put air conditioning in the car - converted the old freon system for a many hundreds of consecutive dollars.
In other news, someone from my recently departed job stole the work from my research project and tried to publish it as primary author. This from the person who many times refused to discuss the work with me, said they weren't intersted at all in the research, but at the same time stopped me from doing an experiment by running away with the equipment and insulting my gender. Also refused to let any one else in on the project, even when they were actually interested in contributing. Spent today re-writing their ridiculous manuscript and most of last night drafting angry but politically correct letters to my nice ex-boss. Will see where I get, this could get messy.....
posted by Ness at 6:16 pm
2 Comments:
Whoa! He stole your work? What the hell? It's not getting published, is it?
Good luck w/ that Ness! My girlfriend up in Boston (finishing up her PhD) was telling me how the students as the neighboring ivy league schools (Harvard/Yale/MIT) were having to go through hoops to make sure their work was not stole through their professors and published as such (she's a professor at Mass Art). I couldn't believe it but she assured me that as a professor, it has been a concern among campuses in the area. Pathetic!
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