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Queensland does not have daylight savings (summer/winter time) although all other states does. 

It is said to be due to a lot of various reasons, the three most entertaining ones being:

1. Many rural families close the curtains when they get home from work to keep out the hot sun, then open them again after the sun goes down to let more air in. Given day light savings gives you one additional hour in the evening after work, this increases the fading of curtains.
2. The farmers are worried their cows will give less milk. Cows don't read clocks, so when they give their milk at 4am, each morning, ready for the trucks to pick up by 4:30am to get into town for us to drink. When daylight savings starts the cow's 4am is now 3am and the cow gives less milk. That is – the reason cows produce less milk in daylight savings because they are unaware of the change. 
   
3. The kids get out of school at around 3:10pm to walk home. This is fine as the core UV times are 10am to 2pm. But in daylight savings, they are heading out in the peak UV period (which is now 11 am to 3pm) causing more UV issues. Hats, creams etc help a little – but with 16 or 17 UV ratings the only real protection is to get inside. Sadly, the kids will get run over by cars due to poor light conditions later on in the afternoon. 
   

Last week, I was lucky to get a free 3D bike fit as cadance performance cykling needed 2 volunteers for a student education. Normally, this bike fit is about 350AUD (!!!). And the benefit of being a PhD student is that you can make yourself free any time of the day for oportunities like this, when noone else can. So. Lucky me!

The whole thing took about three hours and I just recieved a whole booklet of information about my position, vertical and lateral movement of every limb of my body over the bike. It was sooo interesting I almost considered to become a bike fitter. However, the market for that in Sweden would probably not be that great...

This is my breakie after riding up Mt Nebo with an elevation of almost 600m this morning. Totally 67km, 3hrs5min and plenty of elevation. My legs are happily screaming in agony...still! What a great way to start the day!

Friday tired face...

Bring the weekend please! Not that I have too much on but after sectioning rat livers on microscopic slides for the last (and coming) 3 hrs I am indeed happy to get a break.
Plans for tomorrow is to get out on a long ride, if the weather allows. I haven't been on a long one for quite a while so planning to join a friend on a 90km loop. If my legs survive, it will most likely be a market trip after that and some relaxing.

Sunday I will be headin down to Burleigh and participate in Burleigh open water swim only by spectating this time =) Not that you can see much more than splashing water but still, any excuse to go to the beach is valid!

 

Went back to the dentist yday. She says the nerve has been damaged and I will most likely never get the feeling back in my inner lip and will most likely always have the weird sensation of bottom teeth being num, unless it dissapears within half a year =( I really wish I never took that tooth out. But happy for the little sensation that I still have. At least thats something... So that's the end of the wisdom tooth story.

GAAAAHHHHH! I've had a week when things have really been going my way. Please don't let it stop!

Sunday: New PB (personal best) for tri sprint distance by 5 min

Monday: Past MidCandidature with excellence

Wednesday: MY FIRST PAPER AS A FIRST AUTHOS GOT ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION!!!!!!!
For all non-science people out there, this may not seem very exciting, but believe me. IT IS! Getting a paper published is a never-ending process. You work your ass off for two years to create data of sufficiant quality. Most of the things along the way goes wrong and you have to re do it. You spend half a year trying to get your supervisor to read what you have done. She finally says, 'lets rewrite it this way'. You rewrite it. You submit it to a journal with too high impact factor and the reviewers takes 2 months to say "no, we do not want to publish this". You rewrite the whole manuscript to make it fit another journal and submit it again. The reviewers takes 3 months to say "yes, we will publish this, IF you can do the following experiments XXX which means another 5 years of work worth 1millionAUD". 'Third time lucky', Karen told me, and I rewrote the manuscript again and send it in for the third time. This time, after only a short month, the editor wrote back and said "YES WE WANT TO PUBLISH THIS PRETTY MUCH IN THE FORM IT IS". Just to give you an idea how happy I am...

 

But it doesn't end there...

 

Thursday: Something just made sense in the pool at squad training last night "poletten föll ner" as we say in Swedish and I all of a sudden started to swim 100m in 1.45, 1.44, 1.43(!!!!!), instead of my normal 1.50-1.57min. Not fast for some but fast for me.

 

In my moment of feeling invincible, I signed up for a sprint distance on Bribie on sunday, a fundarasing 5km fun run on thursday in two weeks and now i'm sitting here contemplating with myself wheter I should sign up for the half ironman in the middle of superhot Australia in Feb (Hell of the west).

 

Just realized I haven't posted many photos of the West End (best end) surroundings, so during y Monday recovery morning walk with Zelda, I brought my camera to snap some shots of the beautiful purple jaccaranda trees which are now in season. This is my old street before I moved to the street next to it =)

First triathlon since I got back done and dusted. It was the second time I did this course and I improved my time from 1.03 to 57.48, so that was very exciting!

Last week, I did for me two life-changing investments.

1. I bought a GPS for my car so that I no longer have to get lost every single time I go for a drive. It is very exciting and will most likely save me a lot of fuel money for driving around trying to find my way back =)
   
   
2. I bought a YONANA and I cannot express in words what a wonderful kitchen machine this is. I think every household should own one. (Have they made their way to Sweden yet?? If not, this one will move home with me). A yonana makes ice cream out of frozen fruit and it is so delicious! So far, I've only tried with frozen berries, bananas and pinapples, but it can do anything! Just peel and chop the fruit and freeze it for at least 20hrs, then you just put it in the yonana and out comes delicious ice-cream like fruit sorbet. Gaahhh! Yonana, where have you been all my life!? Can even put frozen nuts and chocolate etc to make it more desert like. (I sound like a salesman now but I'm just so in love with this!).

 

Nu kommer alla bilder i oordning här men det får ni stå ut med=) Eftersom att drottningen återigen fyllde år fick vi en public holiday, vilket utnyttjades till fullo med en campervan-trip söderut. Turen gick från Brisbane-ByronBay (sov en natt där)-Yamba-Coffs Harbour (sov en natt där), sedan tillbaka till Byron bay (en natt till) för att tidigt på tisdags morgonen gå upp o springa på stranden och sedan köra tillaka till brisbane. Här kommer som sagt lite bilder som ska få er sugna att KOMMA NER OCH HÄLSA PÅ!
Ovan: Mitt resesällskap Guilly på sin nya surfbräda.

Veckorna kommer och går och likaså gör mina tandläkarbesök. Idag har jag fått påbörja min fjärde dos av antibiotika. Detta elände verkar aldrig ta slut. Min fjärde stackars tand av visdom är det aldrig någon som får peta på!

 

Veckan som var bestod av en rad festligheter under helgen. Tex hade Nikki och Tracy från klubben en kombinerad inflyttnings-födelsedags firande på toppen av ett höghus. Såhär fina var vi då och alla fick skåla i champange utom jag eftersom min antibiotika inte tillåter detta (kanske är en bra ursäkt).