Sorry, yes is not a type of cheese we have.

My moods have been weird the past few weeks. I'm not majorly sad, maybe just a little fed up. Lots to do for Tafe, which is to be expected. I don't really enjoy it much any more unfortunately and have actually been known to 'sleep in' deliberately and miss my first class. I can't do that too often though. Gets a little suspicious. Oh well, 5-6 weeks until graduation. I'm marking it straight on the calender when I find out the actual date. I don't have a calender of my own so I'll buy one and mark it. It will be the middle of the year so calenders should be half price. 

If you want to ask the same questions repeatedly over a period of 8 hours, join Subway. Eventually you'll forget what you've asked instantly and ask again OR you will think you have asked but instead you've just remembered what the last order said. Customers don't like that. I don't like it when they tell me it's not toasted as soon as I've put it in the toaster and they've watched me do it. After a long day, the people who answer yes to a multiple choice question, will just get what they're given. You don't want old english cheese? Well too bad....bitch. The last hour of my shift is 'muck up' hour. Much like the last day of school but better.

                                     

Titanic 1912-2012

Come Josephine in my flying machine, going up she goes...up she goes

I've been obsessed with Titanic and her two sister ships since I was....well I would have had to have been 7 years old when the James Cameron movie came out although I'm fairly sure my mum had told me about the disaster before. Lets just say I was really young. I kinda wanted to write something about the ship tonight, it being the 100th anniversary and all. In the past I've done several school reports about her, one just last year at Tafe explaining she's one of the great wonders in history.

Many people, including myself wonder why the disaster happened when Titanic had the best crew and captain at the time on board. It's true the crew ignored ice warnings and morse calls but they were convinced they were going to be okay. The ship was unsinkable after all. 

It is believed that if the ship had hit the iceberg front on, she would have survived the collision, with only two of the lower compartments been filled with water. Instead the crew tried to dodge the iceberg by going around it, hitting a protruding side of the iceberg and ripping open 5 of 16 lower compartments. The ship would have stayed afloat if only 4 of the compartments had been filled.

Studies have recently concluded how and why the Titanic disaster happened. Icebergs from the glaciers in Greenland move along a current and enter the slightly warmer waters in the Northern Atlantic, in the middle of  the ship's route. The sudden cold air condensing with the warm air causes a mirage effect on the human eye. With the sky being so clear and the water so still, it was almost impossible to make out where the sky ended and where the water started. The iceberg was invisible to the crew's lookouts, until the ship was almost literally on top of the ice.

This is the iceberg which sank the Titanic. Strips of red paint were left on the ice after the collision.

Yes, Titanic had two sisters. The Britannic and the Olympic. The Brtiannic was a hospital ship during the First World War and also sunk in 1916 when she was hit by a water mine.
The Olympic also nearly sank in 1911 when she crashed into another steamer. She was saved and repaired and retired in 1935. 

Titanic and Olympic

Britannic
(she was purrrdy)

The Titanic finally slipped underneath the freezing water at 2:20am on April 15th, 1912.


I really should be doing my Psychology assignment but typical me, if I'm interested enough in something, It has my undivided attention. As I've stated before to many of you, my Psychology class this semester is a joke and quite honestly, if there was a course in White Star Line steam liners, I'll be the first to drop out of Psych and join that class.