Can zombies swim?

Fletch and I have been nutting out our zombie plans. We think a yacht is our best option - fishing can allow for enough food (although now that I think about it, I don't know how we would cook the fish), and the undead hordes can't get to us. We were considering snow, but food supply cuts off for a few months of the year, and I think zombies thaw OK, so really, you would just get one big wave as soon as it was warm enough for them to lurch again.

Oh no, I just thought - what are we going to do for drinking water on the boat? We can distill bits out of the ocean water using sunlight to heat the seawater, but that is seriously slow, and not going to be enough water to drink. I imagine a fairly large setup, using sunlight to heat the water (maybe we could rig up a lens to focus the rays?) and using seawater to condense the water? I can use the salt that we get out of it to preserve the fish to eat. Hmmmm... maybe the boat isn't the ideal haven that I had thought. Unless we get a boat with a desalination plant?

If anyone wants in, let us know, and we'll meet you in the harbour for the apocalypse.

Welcome back! To me!

I have just spent about a month overseas, enjoying the sights sounds (and smells) of Bali and New Zealand. Could I have picked two more typical overseas destinations for an Australian tourist? The Bali trip was 2 weeks with my mum and my grandma, and the NZ trip was 10 days with my brother, my boyfriend, and an assortment of friends picked up and dropped off along the way. The reason for the friend rota was that we were there for my best friend's wedding (tee hee - movie ref!), and so there were a few people to catch up with at various points along the trip.

The wedding it self was a blast/hoot. Or the other way around - I still haven't decided. It was such a special day, and the first civil union I've been to. I think it was my third or fourth wedding, and I'm not sure if it was the holiday spirit that everyone was in, the fact that is was a small crowd (so only people who really cared), or if it was the specialness of the people who actually got married, but there was such a fantastic vibe about the day! People who have seen a few of the photos have commented on the same thing, so we must all look as happy as we felt.


So yeah, the holidays were great, the wedding was great, and being home is great too! I am now left with only one chapter of my thesis to write (OK, two, but conclusion chapters don't count!), and it's time to get back to it. So there you are - short and boring update, but now we are all up-to-date, so I can start writing about whatever takes my fancy again.