Hmph (Natty)

I have a little story to tell you all. Once upon a time, lets say 10,000 years ago, there were these hunter gatherer type people. They did lots of stupid things like hunt and well, gather things. Mostly the things were very boring, more specifically a stupidly high number of different species (?) of nuts, animals, plants and blah blah blah. Fast forward 10,000 years to modern day and we have Mr Clive Ponting. Clive decided that the rest of us would be ever so amused to hear all about this gathering nonsense and wrote an excessively long book all about it called “A New Green History of The World.” Obviously Clive was isolated and friendless as a child and so decided to inflict his monotony on the poor Uni Melbourne students who decided to take An Ecological History of Humanity.

ARGH! This is the first time since I arrive that my mood has been less than a 10 on the fantastic scale.

What I don’t understand is, the first two lectures were fantastic! Even some of the reading has been good and now it’s suddenly taken a sharp downward turn. Maybe it’s just this short bit and the rest will pick up. Are any other eco hist people finding it the same?

Anyways, I am giving up for the evening to go and do something more fun. I have quite a lot of work to do but now feel unmotivated to do any more this evening because a) it’s 9pm b) I’ve spent far too much valuable time reading about seeds and c) I’ve now left it too late to go out and do something fun because I spent so long trying to get my head around spear heads or whatever. Grrr. Perhaps a Nutella sandwich and some kind of cheesy girly film accompanied by much dancing around my apartment is the order of the evening… oh wait, did I just say that out loud? Haha

Love Natty xxx