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Martine

cleverly disguised as a responsible adult

About Me

Stay tuned.

My Interests

Life and everything that comes with it

I'd like to meet:

Other monkeys.

Music:

Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age, Incubus, Morcheeba, Motorpsycho, Slo Burn, Sublime, Dead Moon, Tool, A Perfect Circle, The Police, Ben Harper, Buck 65, Butthole Surfers, Asian Dub Foundation, Beck, Dozer, Karma to Burn, Placebo, The Mars Volta, The Smiths, Smog, 35007, Nick Drake, Nick Cave, Boards of Canada, Soul Coughing, Danko Jones, Ozric Tentacles, Thievery Corporation, Soundgarden, Tricky, Mad Season, Palace Music and all the other stuff that guy did, Dredg, Far, The Fire Theft, Deathcab for Cutie, Tom Waits, Jeff Buckley, Modern Lovers, The Clash, The Prodigy, DJ Shadow, Johnny Cash, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The White Stripes, Fu Manchu, The Heads.....

Television:

convenient device to watch DVD's on

Books:

Anything that will make me look smart, like Cavca

Heroes:

Bill Hicks, Mitch Hedberg and other dead comedians

My Blog

So far, so good

I'm starting to get the hang of this travelling thing!I met this German girl Meike back in Lajuma who decided to travel with me for the first 2 weeks, and we started in Pretoria. Made big plans to go ...
Posted by Martine on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:42:00 PST

Change of plans

Because I hurt my foot a couple of weeks ago I had to follow doctors orders and my fieldwork was reduced to just work. Computery stuff like data entry, translating GPS points into actual tracks on a m...
Posted by Martine on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 07:36:00 PST

Someone...?

Grrreat. It's 7AM, I'm on top of a mountain (aptly referred to as Mount of Despair), and about 1 hour ago I found the illusive 2nd troop of baboons. So they do exist! And I followed them going up a c...
Posted by Martine on Wed, 23 May 2007 02:49:00 PST

Stuck on a rock again

I just realized I missed out on Queensday, our national excuse for mass-debauchery when everyone celebrates the birthday of a dead ex-queen (that's Juliana to you, Jacob) by a) putting on something o...
Posted by Martine on Tue, 15 May 2007 01:34:00 PST

First blog ever. Makes the other ones make sense. Sort of.

Research assistant. For the coming months I get to have an actual title!Oh, and I have to do stuff, too. 'Fieldwork'. In South Africa. On Papio Ursinus, aka baboons.Waking up at 4.30 to climb steep, j...
Posted by Martine on Tue, 15 May 2007 01:29:00 PST