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Just a selection of pictures from the latest conference on the Gold Coast in which I had a poster presentation. Me, James and Reetu from my lab were all thinking we would get some time on the beach but believe it or not, there were so many good talks so we actually didn't want to. It was basically a diabetes and obesity conference so a lot of talks about nutrition, exercise, circadian rythms etc that probably were more relevant from an interest point of view than for my project. Bur as a nutritionist, I really liked it=)
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Between all talks (that lasted for 4 whole days) they served us a bunch of chocolate and cookies, which is a bit ironic saying that every talk was about diabetes and how bad junk food it. Hmmm...

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Also dressed up for scientific dinners on a few of the pictures.

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And you have no idea how hard Reetu and I worked to get those two pinguins! It was so worth it thugh (until I got home and Cooper got overexcited about "his" new toy).

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Last but not least. I won the conference-competition in Carb-Ninja, a pretty decent achievement if you ask me. For those of you who are not familiar with Ninja games. Fruit ninja has been a pretty big thing on iphones and you basically cut fruits. In carb ninja, you had to cut all foods containing more carbs than 10gs and it was a live game so you cut them with your own hands. I kno. I might be a little bit too excited about this but it was awesome fun!

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As for being back in Bris. Work is not giving me enough space to breath. I really don't like it and I cannot wait for September to be over, although it hasn't even started yet. Not that I trust myself when I want to believe it will be better in October. But it can't possibly getting any worse. So that is good at least!

 

 

 

Vilken tur att de kunde lösa incidenten så snabbt. Det måste ha varit dramatiskt!

Thats it. A wonderful day in Springbrook nationalpark with my two wonderful ladies Laura and Regine and the one snake that decided to scare us on the last km of the in total 17km Warrie curcuit. 4.5 hours in a jungle of beautiful trees and waterfalls. A saturday couldn't be spent in a better way!

With only a km left to become the best women of Lake Manchester 2012 Woot woot!

Someone had time to even pose for the camera huh!

So. Got up at 6am this Sunday morning to do what I did this day 2 years ago. 6km trail run with Beau around lake manchester, western BNE. Actually only came with Beau so he would get his 3-years-in-a-row-premium glass. But I sort of wanted a glass too. Only, I missed the trail last year as I was back in Sweden then. (Or Ireland). So the only chance to get a glass was to win the female competition. So I did!
It was an extremely hilly trail with streams and rocks and a very steep uphill we had to survive twice. I still dont know my finishing time as I didn't really pay attention to it whenever it was read out, but it should be on the website soon!

Poor Beauie was sick but still got a time of 36min.

Altough my trophe got stolen by a stupid little kid, I still got my Lake Manchester glass and got awarded best female of the 6km run. I never won anything like that before so I have to admit I am a bit proud. Maybe I should practice for my next run and I'll beat the guys as well!

Last weekend, I went to a conference (SGI summit) which (conviniently) was organized in Brisbane this year. (Last year I think it was in San Fransisco!). Good or bad luck? I don't know. But I had a poster presentation for my second conference. And afterwards, my lab got invited for lab dinner, which we hadn't registered for and which cost 125AUD per person. We must have been a charming bunch of people as the 9 of us got it all for free!

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Secont. You might have noticed that I haven't been writing much (again). But this time, I have something to blame. Many, small, pink, naked pups which now have reached a number of 70+.

I have got babies!

The top ones are 2 days old and the bottom ones are 7 days old. A bit of colour change going on there but they are so adorable! However, 7 rats have an average of 15 babies each and another 8 have just got pregnant. Imagine, if all of those pups need to be weighed once daily, in addition to making diets etc etc. That takes a bit of time...

At the moment, I love them too much to care though. But I know that once the other 8 litter down, my life is gonna turn in to even less of a lie. How now this could be possible!

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My confirmation date has been set as well. Only have a few weeks left till I have to go through the first and most important milestone of an australian PhD. Huh Im nervous! Trying not to think too much about it just yet. And I know I keep saying it. After that. My life should be a little bit less hectic. However I have said this for as long as I can remember so I don't trust myself anymore!