Only one assignment to go!

One week left of classes and one assignment to go! Our last major assignment was due today - we had to make a poster in a group about a major engineering project and assess its sustainability. Our group chose a building called "The Gauge" in Melbourne which is Australia's first building to be awarded 6 Green Stars for sustainability by the Green Building Council of Australia. Pretty interesting stuff considering it was built for the same cost as a regular A grade office building, showing that being green doesn't need to be any more expensive.

Last week I has the pleasure of presenting a short speech at the presentation of this year's UQ excellence and QRC scholarships and meeting this year's recipients. I'm looking forward to seeing them around uni and at various events throughout the year.

In other news, the social touch football team I play in is having a truly amazing season. So far we haven't won a single game, however this is OBVIOUSLY because we're letting the other teams have a bit of a head start, to make it a bit more fair. We're improving though, we've only been losing by a margin of 5 points recently...to put this into perspective for anyone who doesn't play touch footy, 1 try is equal to 1 point. Pretty soon we'll have the Broncos scouts hassling us about contracts

Update

Uni has been pretty full on these past few weeks with mid semester exams, but they're all over now so we get a bit of a break. Until the final exams come around. Then it's time for a few more late nights, cram sessions and a bit of panic in general. Good times.

In other news I'm going to the Dylan Moran show on Monday night :D I'M SO EXCITED!!! For anyone who has never seen the show Black Books or any of his stand up, you're really missing out.

Just a few marvellous Black Books quotes to finish off on:

Bernard (doing his tax return): "If you live in a council flat"... "beside a river"... "but are not blind"... WHAT? WHAT?! "What is your mother's maiden name?" What's her first name? I just knew her as Ma! Ma! That'll have to do. (Writing) Ma... possibly deceased.

Bernard: Gerald! Can I ask you a question?
Gerald: What?
Bernard: You know the thing, uh, the thing that cleans these things, the thing-cleaner! Why is that in your bathroom? I'm not Coco Chanel or anything but I think that's a bit weird.
Gerald: Umm Bernard why don't I umm call you a cab?
Bernard: I don't want a cab! It's only half-one. Anyway, listen, listen, why do you have a toaster in your bathroom?
Gerald: We haven't got a toaster in our bathroom.
Bernard: Well you should put a lock on the door anyway because I was in there, I was on the toilet and everything, and little Jimmy comes in, he's drinking milk from the fridge and that's all wrong... it's unhygienic. And what were you thinking, what was going through your brain when you thought "Oh yeah, I'll buy a wicker toilet"? (Sarah shrieks in horror from another room)
Bernard: So I go to the toilet in your wicker chair, it's a faux pas.

Manny: Bernard, this Therm-Away jacket you bought me doesn't seem to be working. I feel quite warm.
Bernard: Trust me. It's what the astronauts use to keep cool.
Manny: Is space hot?
Bernard: Hah, of course it is. Where else do you think we get pineapples from?

Bernard: Shut up! I am trying to make crème brulée! (starts grinding a cucumber)