7 year post-doc mentality : http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/07/21/the-awesomest-7-year-postdoc-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-tenure-track-faculty-life/

wisconsin girl randomness: http://whoonew.com/2013/07/7-reasons-you-should-date-a-wisconsin-woman/

instant 90s button : http://www.the90sbutton.com/#otCpCn0l4Wo

edinburgh facts : http://www.buzzfeed.com/alisont5/11-facts-every-edinburger-knows-to-be-true-c707

the excitement of actually finishing manuscripts and sending them off for publication attempts is quickly and repeatedly pummeled to a pulp with repeated editor rejections.
ugh.
tiring.

yesterday i could actually see my breath as i walked to school.  so perth is definitely turning towards winter which once again is totally bizarro as it's the first day of june.
i'm seeing posts of people graduating and finishing up school and it's even nearing the end of the semester here, yet june in perth is definitely not northern hemisphere climate.

oecd

found this quite cool interactive page http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/

because of this article http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/05/28/186922833/three-years-in-a-row-australia-named-happiest-place-by-oecd

mali without music

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/20/opinion/the-day-the-music-died-in-mali.html

still want to go to mali one day.  hope that this gets sorted for them first though.  such a major part of their life and history to ban.

that and the libraries.  eek.

the bubbler - a potentially interesting tie between home and here

but i'm not sure i've experienced this word as recognized?

http://whoonew.com/2013/03/why-a-bubbler/

occurrences in australia...

http://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/totally-common-occurrences-in-australia