bending_sickle | Put on your war paint*

i've been figuring things out over on tumblr which is why i a) haven't written anything here and b) why everything is now in lowercase

so here are the things i've been figuring out, copy-pasted in all their glory, except by "figuring out" i mean "making lists of lists of and agonizing over everything and making nil progress yay"

the where would i not absolutely loathe to live? list, round three (which is 99% identical to round two because i have no idea what i’m doing anymore)

america

usa - chicago
canada - montreal

australia&zealandia

australia - sydney ; melbourne ; adelaide
new zealand - wellington ; aukland ; christchurch

europe

belgium - bruxelles
france - paris
germany - munich ; berlin ; stuttgart
switzerland - geneva

in which i try to narrow down the where would i not absolutely loathe to live? question by checking out university programs, screaming, and rocking back and forth

the new zealand edition

where is fuck is everything:

aukland university of technology - aukland - mainly research-based

hospitality and tourism - ecotourism

health and environmental studies - biodiversity ; environmental sciences

centre for interpreting and translation

lincoln university - lincoln

agricultural life sciences - ecology ; environmental management

environment, society, and design - social science, parks, recreation, tourism, and sport

university of aukland - aukland - largest and highest-ranked science faculty in the country

translation studies

biological sciences -biosecurity and conservation ; ecology, evolution, and behaviour
Professor Roger Pech - current projects: An assessment of the behaviour, range and population influences of the stoat and of the control methods currently employed (PhD)

university of canterbury - christchurch

biological sciences

- Intelligent Systems For Prediction and Detection of Pest Invasion
- Design of long-term environmental monitoring programmes

in which i try to narrow down the where would i not absolutely loathe to live? question by checking out university programs, screaming, and rocking back and forth

the australia edition

where the fuck is everything:

university of adelaide - adelaide - research focused

school of earth and environmental scienes - terrestrial and freshwater ecology ; global change ecology

university of melbourne - parkville (melbourne)

environment, earth, and climate sciences (incl. biodiversity, ecology, and conservation)

australian national university

environment and resource management [projects]

macquarie university - macquarie park (sydney)

biological sciences

university of new south wales - kensington (sydney) - research focused

biological, earth, and environmental sciences - biological science ; climate science ; environmental management

university of sydney - sydney

connect with a research supervisors (i.e. opportunities search engine)

- the foraging and behavioural ecology of mammalian herbivores: how they interact with the plants they eat and with the predators that want to eat them
- are ecological interactions in urban landscapes disrupted by shifts in biodiversity?

shit i can see myself doing and not dying in the process (as for whether these are possible well nobody asked you so shush)

SCIENCE SHIT

PhD in something ~green~ because previous education yo

working in something ~green~ because previous education yo

this includes shit like ecotourism, consultancy, science writer, researcher

LANGUAGE SHIT

translation because so many languages yo

customer service at international thingies because ibid even though ahahaha impending death by socialization and i’m not kidding like even therapist lady is all “no seriously you would die as a receptionist”

this includes shit like airports, hotels, tourism

RANDOM SKILLS SHIT

horses because i can shovel and pick and soap and groom like no man’s business

LACK OF ADEQUATE SKILLS SHIT BUT HEY-O

animal care like pet stores and shit

cleaning shit except hopefully not actual shit

baking shit because i’m really reaching here

shit i want out of life and i’m not even going to ask for much

domestic felines all up in here (also dogs and rodents just GIVE ME ALL THE FLUFFY THINGS)

plants all up in here like seriously GIVE ME A FERN I NEED A FERN

friends in the general geographic vicinity so that hi i just came round for tea isn’t something that requires plane tickets

BOOKS DID I MENTION BOOKS?

living someplace where there’s rain because if not I SHRIVEL UP AND DIE

a house or apartment of my own and okay yes this is asking a lot but like dude you have no idea how much i would love for that stability and security and the concept of MAH HOME NO ONE IS TAKING IT AWAY FROM ME THIS IS MY NEST

being able to occasionally buy random pretty shit that i want just because i want to and it’s pretty and not fucking agonizing over it for ages and regretting it for eternity and just I WANT NICE THINGS OKAY

ART EVERYWHERE even if it’s print-outs from the printer just slap those suckers on all the walls

SOMEONE I CAN CUDDLE FOREVER and also someone i can fuck into a mattress and if these are the same person then a+ but if not then hey fuckbuddies are totally fine with me at least in theory because hi i think i might have forgotten how to socialize with humans at this point but yeah that thing would be nice

body alteration shit like i’m talking hair dye and tattoos and piercings and thighs that aren’t shaped like gun holsters but that’s for another post

…i don’t even know what i’m doing anymore

Links of the Day:

cleolinda's Hannibal Recap 1x01
danlev's Superheroes as Manatees

ursulav's Oh my freakin' god- So apparently the world is divided into two groups. People who know that lawn crayfish exist, and people who go “WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!”

extemporanea's Tweenbots
YouTube's The Last Unicorn (full movie)

* "Phoenix", Fall Out Boy