I plan to use this little fellow as a “persuader” anyone who won’t be brought round to my point of view can expect a photo of this little guy in their inbox. Putting a horse head in someone’s bed or sending a fish in the mail is so last millenium. All gangster movie references aside, the little guy on the left is one of a colony of about 25 Magnetic Island unadorned rock wallabies. These critters are only found on Magnetic Island and the Palm Island group. Although apparently they make nice sandwhiches so there aren’t many left on Palm. This is just one of the many reasons people should come and visit me. He’s cool.
It seems that PR is the career path to pursue if you want amazing job perks. I thought I had it made in my position – but it turns out if you really want to live the high life as a media adviser you need to be working for a state premier. Premier Iemma from New South Wales took his media adviser with him on a European trip. Check out how much they spent here.
Once again I actually have nothing newsworthy to report. I guess my newsworthy bar is pretty high because I’m doing plenty of stuff with my time. I worked a 12 hour day yesterday thanks to the budget and an afterwork meeting. That was exciting. Actually at the meeting after work I got to pretend to be a real journalist. WIN sent a camera but no journo to cover the meeting so I arranged to do some interviews for them.
We had our first night of bible studies last night with Focus (the young adult group) and due to my work exploits I was in no real position to be leading a study – I listened to about half the things people in my group were saying. I think my eyes were probably glazed for most of the evening. But I’m told it wasn’t too bad for a first week (I think that’s Tim’s diplomatic way of saying there’s plenty to improve). (I’ve noticed that I’m putting plenty of stuff in brackets that could really just be left unbracketed. I’m not sure why it is – I think anything in brackets is probably stuff that can just be ignored because it interrupts the narrative flow of the blog entry otherwise. I wonder how long is too long in terms of bracketed passages. Surely this one is pushing the limits – you’ll probably have to go back and see what went before the brackets now. Sucks to be you – this bracket was at the start of a new sentence. I haven’t interrupted anything.)
Finally, I’m trying to find out how long the world’s longest recorded pregnancy was. No one has been able to help me out yet. But if you can I’ll be impressed and will feature you in my blog. Maybe I should start a “friend of the week” column. I think now that I’m in PR and I’m not a serious journalist I would seriously consider any cash for comment deals on the table. I have no ethical problems with that at this point.
Comments
Caitie,
Did you notice in the comments on the post entitled “I’m funny… just ask me and I’ll tell you” that my mother did in fact admit to laughing at my blog – meaning that I wasn’t lying when I said my mum thinks I’m funny.
Nathan
http://www.bly.cc/roast/1999/sld031.htm
ciao
I was expecting maybe 10 months maximum. Is this verified? 17 months is a long time to be carrying a baby for – imagine the dependancy issues that kid would have.
Oh,
Blue Whales – 10-12 months (wikipedia)
Elephants – An elephant’s gestation (conception to birth) is 23 months.
http://www.zulucam.org/tembe-elephant-facts.htm
I’ve found one site that lists Anissa August is a fake.
But google is true, don’t you know!
Maybe Dr August had two babies and pretended it was just one continuous pregnancy.
Found this in a
court record: of a paternity claim.
Dr. S~ also stated that, “The longest human gestation I have ever personally observed in the past 20 years was one of 322 days or 46 weeks. I do not believe that it is medically possible for a gestation of 359 days, which is the length required in this case, to occur.”
and this is just gross!
Yeah so I still have no idea, no help for you journalistic types. Depends if you’re talking about a human pregnancy… If you’ve ever seen a baby who has been carried past term (over 40 weeks) they are getting shrivled skin and it then peels – an obstetrician I once spent time with called them ‘overcooked’, which means that approx 10 months (or around 46 weeks as you suggested before) would be about the longest gestation possible as physiologically, 17 months would just be almost impossible for a viable infant.
Oh, and that Moroccan 46 year case?
That’s just gross!
another legal site tends to limit it to 46 weeks too.
This is probably a topic my wife won’t appreciate right now… she’s had enough trouble with daily vomiting for the last 7 weeks (wk 13 now) without considering how long it could possibly continue.
Thanks for pointing that out Nathan. I know you just needed to remind me again, of just how funny you are, in case I (or anyone else who may have also been so remiss as to forget) had forgotten. That’s alright, I understand.
Oh and Glazed is a term often referring to donuts, cakes… bloodshot is the term I would use for eyes in that situation…
And if I mentioned here that you were confused about your sister and your mother’s birthdays… would you delete my post??
no, I’m all for free speech. If I mentioned that you’re scared of all forms of animals, and the dark – would you delete my post… oh hang on, you can’t.
I know what glazed means. I’m a “journalist type” that means I know everything and if i don’t, i ask questions. I suspect if your eyes were glazed – everything would look blurry and seem to be coming through a fairly thick layer of coating – which is how I felt – hence the use of the word glazed.
Don’t you have assignments to be doing.
… and if you’re already sick of my jokes after 8 weeks – imagine how sick of them I must be after 22.42 years. At least I assume I was born funny and didn’t have to wait for it to develop.
Apparently when I was born my tongue was poking out and an un-named relative thought I was retarded.
I don’t believe in assignments.
Oh, and I’m not scared of fish…
Don’t you have WORK to be doing?
Is that concern for a friend’s well-being or a not-so-subtle dismissal?
Where are you atm Nathan?
I’m at work, on lunch. This afternoon I have advanced training for Microsoft Outlook and Word. How exciting.
A med student who doesn’t believe in assignments… Now I have seen everything.
Well, I haven’t seen a man eat his own head actually. I can’t believe I just referenced Team America again. If it wasn’t for God’s grace I’d certainly be going to hell.
wouldn’t we all…
well, I guess your view depends on what you scored on that quiz the other day
You should tell all the comments readers when you last referenced team America…
And smiley, for a long time the medical profession didn’t believe in germs, so I don’t find assignments much of a stretch.
They also believed leeches could cure all sorts of disease. Hooray for doctors.
I may, or may not, have referenced Team America in the middle of bible study last night.
For those of you out there who haven’t seen Team America – it’s very funny but extremely rude so I hesitate to recommend it.
ahh, one of those “what does this say about me” and “am I leading people in through the sewer when the front door is just over there” moments…
I’m happy for people to realise I’m a terrible sinner. Is laughing at other people’s sin a sin? Does said laughter encourage further sin? I guess it does if the person is a comedian
Depends if it’s funny. If ti isn’t funny, and you laugh, then you just look weird.
Or do you mean should you be morally outraged? It’s possible to be both I think – (at least it is with our 2 year old)
On the “cash for comment” topic, um, Nath, hate to say it, but… that’s your job.
I think Kim Beasely has been pregnant for 40 years now
Jo – my sister everyone – funniness must run in the family.
46 years still trumps that, though both situations are disturbing
we’ve always thought you were a bit funny.
elephants – 660 days of pregnancy. whole knew meaning to looking like/feeling like an elephant.
whoops, sorry mip, just decided to read the other comments – you beat me to the elephant.
Hahaha! Jo, that was the funniest thing I have read on this blogsite! Random, but oh so funny!
Nathan – I think that was my dad? Nothing to worry about though, cause he thought Esther’s tongue was too long when she was under 5yrs and thought mum should take him to the doctor. If only we knew sooner…
not one who likes to be out done mip, i have searched the entire internet for a picture of kim beazley as an 11 yr old to see if he was pregnant then too (meaning his gestation period would now be 47yrs)however as no picture is available I think we should call it a tie so i can get back to work.
I’ll take the tie.
there are a lot of pregnant looking people around lately.. is it a fashion trend? Kim Beazly inspired i guess. Who wouldn’t want to look like him
it was actually my grandma – but it’s nice to know lots of my family think I’m retarded
Heehee! It just means that you look like your uncle!
so do you get to watch the budget response speech too?
This post has like…the most responses ever…
I’m not interested in the budget response – it’s like listening to the “victory” speech of someone who comes second in a race – who cares…
Well…im sorry to burst your little blog bubble…but even though this comment zone has 40 comments…only like 7 different people have visited…which makes it not that popular after all. Mathamatics is amazing.
Quality not quantity my anonymous friend.
The seven people all felt engaged enough by the material to make a comment.
11, now 12 of the comments have been from me too… which makes the number of comments less impressive.
Nathan I can’t believe how much rubbish you can go on with. Glad to see that they taught you something in journalist school.
Why do they have interstate highways in Hawaii?
If Vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?
they’re old anon. this one is my favourite “If electricity comes from electrons does morality come from morons
The longest pregnancy is a viper (or adder), whose pregnancy lasts seventy years (brainboost), but i guess you wanted a human pregnancy. oops…I don’t mean you actually wanted to be pregnant…well, maybe you did?….
An unadorned rock wallaby hey? does that mean it has no ‘bling’?
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Think about that people. Its deep, I know. Nath – yay for you getting good responses to your blog. Just helping in both the quality & quantity departments of your blog
Nathan – As you are a qualified Journalist, I feel that your blog should run as a newspaper – daily editions at a stipulated time. I have spent a substantial amount of time, searching for today’s upates on your blog…
BTW, did you hear that one of the anglican churches in Sydney (Barney’s on Broadway), burnt down this week?
And did you know that a ferny grove high school manual arts teacher has been charged under the new terrorism laws for (allegedly) buying 53kg of explosive with phony docs, and (allegedly) making 4 (alleged) bombs, which (allegedly)included nails and razor blades.
You can tell I’m not a journo since I’m not sure when to use “alleged(ly)”
Now, no matter what the result, this guy is going to come out looking pretty stupid. But the police will look stupid if he gets acquitted (or a bomb goes off because they missed something)
hello.
just wanted to see the number of comments tick over to 50.