I love ducks

Here's an outline of my routine for the last couple of days:

• Go into uni bright and early to work on management assignment
• Procrastinate wildly
• Get fizzled out inside brain from intensity of procrastination
• Go to Western Park
• Watch ducks

 Okay let's talk about ducks. I guess the conversation should be prefaced by the author's acknowledgement that ducks are basically a massive lie: they seem cute / serene, but they're actually brutally violent animals with very liberal views on sexual consent. Just the other day I had to intercept a brutal duck murder in which several ducks had formed a kind of convoy around a larger duck, and were taking it in turns to force its head under the water.

My favourite duck looks like this:

 It's about half the size of all the other ducks, and basically has no neck - its head is just like a tiny dome coming out of its duck body. Sometimes it stands up and quacks really loudly for like ten seconds. I think there's a boy duck (green head) of the same weird small duck kind, so I guess they're a couple. That duck is my favourite duck.

If you watch ducks diving from above (like on a bridge or something) you can really appreciate how very hydrophobic they are. The water just rolls right off them. Apparently it's because they're always lathering themselves with special duck oil. I think saw a goose preening and crying simultaneously once, which led me to assume that their duck oil comes out of their eyes. The internet says that all waterfowl get their oil from a gland in their tail, so I guess the goose was just sad.

(Reconstruction)

I tried to sneak up on sleeping ducks today, but I think they sleep with their eyes open or something. Sometimes when they're asleep you can see the whites of their eyes, which is kind of scary.

I've got a new board game, it's called Diplomacy and I'm very excited about it. It's like Risk, except it's a well designed game and it takes so long that the rule book tells you that it's okay for the game to end in a mutually agreed four way draw if everybody gets bored. I'm playing it this Saturday and I'd like to see it through to completion, but that might be ambitious because I'm going to a wild party in the evening.

I'm not sure why I find this so exciting

Of course, before the party and the board games and the church family brunch and the train and the cat and the further board games and the reunion with the biological family and the celebration of the resurrection and hopefullly even a makeshift sunrise service, there's the MGT389 deadline. This has been my final act of procrastination, I hope you have enjoyed it.