new microwave

The old one started doing sparks and things so we let the lodge know and they got us a new one pronto. I bet they have a huge stack of these things just sitting round ready for such situations.

Spent the morning on skype being a useful native english speaker to my dutch friend studying english.

Had a lecture about what is science then had a mindnumbingly tedious 'practial' about how to read a scientific paper. Some of it was useful. Most of it was just boring.

I started work on a fern ID powerpoint for an ecosoc id for idiots thingy.