Woo!

That icon is so deep, Jesse.

Isn't it though?

THIS is what you greet me with after a month away???

...hi!

You look like an angry Jewish man in that photo. Tsk tsk, Scotty.

Want to be my Boston tour guide?

You cannot resist angry Jewish men.

YES. When would you be here?

I hope that's the good kind of busy. I wouldn't be too sure, never had much to do with the rearing of maggots.

You're missed terribly.

It's the school kind of busy.

And boy, I miss you too. I wondered if you'd start writing again. Look for me on AIM. Or call me. Or fax. Or just come over.

Wait...

Let me hide the bodies Calum's been mailing me first.

maggots?!

HEY. They're good people.

Er, larvae.

Well at least you're keeping busy.
Maggoty goodness.

Ooooooh do I have a recipe for maggot cookies for you! Thanks for reminding me.

Kewl:D
Did you know that there are about 130 calories in a witchety grub?

Sometime this weekend I'll tell everyone how to REAR THEIR OWN MAGGOTS.

And you've even included an instructional picture, thoughtful girl.

Does Australia have a CSI equivalent? It's such the rage here; I hate telling folks who ask me that real forensics work is kind of bleh.

And I've missed reading your journal, Pipi. Hope work is treating you well!

It is all the rage here is as well (three nights a week on free to air tv). I think there may have been a local attempted to make a similar sort of tv show for local consumption but it wasn't that memorable.

As for raising the popularity of classes/formal training - you actually need more marks for forensics than for medicine - and the number of candidates who try is newsworthy, which is wrong somehow. No offence, but I think I would prefer the best and brightest to concentrate on the living. The popularity and the false expectations set by the shows must naturally draw in people who are not prepared for bleh. Roll on the invention of smellovision, say I.

I met an archaeology post grad at Syd U who been asked by a professor to go with him to help dig up mass graves as part of a UN war crimes investigation. Very fresh history. I dare say it was probably not the direction she had in mind when she left school.

Sometime this weekend I'll tell everyone how to REAR THEIR OWN MAGGOTS.

The take home message is that Kim and her mate are both flies, and they have finally bred.

Oh my god, babies were discussed Friday night and I realized how nervous the whole topic makes me.

Besides, the day I start giving out child-rearing advice (not so different from maggot-rearing advice, ironically) is the day people should stop having children.

I wish. Haha.

And wow; you know who Bill Bass is. Yeah -- he was the one who wrote my forensic osteology textbook, too. I used to work with Bill Maples' last grad student (who's now a professor himself).

Hot, hot icon, by the way. In my next life I'm so being a pirate.

I tried calling you about a month ago and found out that you've blocked all incoming calls. May I please have another number?

OOPS.

Yes, doll. My bad. SO my bad. :O

Oh, and when you send it, my e-mail has changed.

theempathogen AT gmail DOT com.

May I have it as well? In combo with your lack of posts recently, I was beginning to think you had gone to ground from the forensic anthropologists mafia.

Maggots are easy: just put out a nice piece of meat, wait for the flies to leave eggs and then stick the entire thing in a suitable container for a while and you'll have lots of wonderful maggots to use as bait when you're fishing.
I've actually never done this, but came across the methods back when I was fishing as a kid...

As for being busy... know what you mean. Nice to hear from you, though. I actually went as far as calling you the other day, but your mobile has been disconnected?

Oh, well... still nesting in the same spot?

*hugs*

Oh. Oops. I need to tell everyone that I have a new mobile number. theempathogen brought this to my attention.

yeah, but to turn the maggots into flies... much more difficult. ;)

Well, so tell us the number! And if you want a postcard from Australia you'll also have to e-mail me your current address...

As for turning maggots into flies... that's what? the Alchemist's Quest that never really caught on with the public since turning lead into gold is so much more appealing? ;-)

Hey there, I can do without the maggot rearing, but thanks anyway. Good luck with those nesting instincts, they can be a real pain. Talk to you later.

~Bryan

Bryan? WHEN DID YOU GET A LIVEJOURNAL?

That reads like an episode of Sex and the City, no less.

I miss joo.

So that's why your fingernails smelly kinda funny.

Sometime this weekend I'll tell everyone how to REAR THEIR OWN MAGGOTS.

Oooh. Martha Stewart, eat your heart out.