Procrastinating

When I procrastinate I bake. Simple.

I will start posting my recipes up here soon, my aim is to eventually make a vegan cookbook. 

But for now I've just managed to perfect the super scrumptious vegan chocolate cake!

Health and positive psychological interventions.

This little thing has made me look like i've been to hospital for the last three days. In actual fact i'm currently participating in a study which is trying to find out whether there is a link between cortisol and your mood and it is an Actiwatch-Score, it is a watch which asks me to rate my mood five times a day. As well as this i have to collect saliva samples six times a day using a MEMSCap bottle which calculates the time it gets opened, so no lying basically! Let's hope all this inconvenience is worth it.

Deoxyribonucleic Acid.

James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin.

Otherwise known as the 'DNA folk' - between them these four discovered DNA.

James Watson and Francis Crick had the idea and Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin had the evidence, at first both pairs were in upmost competition with each other. It was all thanks to Maurice Wilkins purposefully leaving his office open for the opposing two to find his evidence; the material inside a nucleus of a cell carrying all the genetic information. It's weird to think that the simplicity of it, 4 bases of chemical compounds which pair off can make up everything that's so complex.

Dour festival.

This is the line up for 2011, (un)fortunately I am going to be in Thailand at this time so will miss it. Festival of 2012 if the line up is going to be this good?

Beer-battered avocado.

Served with a chilli dip. I made this for my parents today, not only being able to up my level on vegan cooking but show them I can actually make something delicious. I think it did the job!

The result of this is self-taught German sessions.

A week of good film.

Biutiful; not a 'feel good' movie but beautiful none the less. 

The Edukators; a reminder of my love for Daniel Brühl and German film.