::Dawn peeks out from behind a jar holding a specimen of Sphyrna tiburo and another holding a bunch of Notropis longirostris::
What's been going on in NO?
Voted on the second -- didn't do a darned bit of good, but I can safely count myself among the 49% who can say "I didn't vote for him" as we become more and more alienated from the world community and our environmental and social standards fall further and further back into the Dark Ages. ::sigh::
My stint as an undergraduate research advisor has been interesting to say the least. One group of my four has completed its experiments (I think) and needs to do some data analysis -- time to brush off that ol' biostats book I asked my mom to mail me! A second group had a *minor* (is your sarcasm meter going off?) setback when all but 30 of their 150 madtoms (relative of the catfish) died within a day of being captured. No, they hadn't done an experiment. A third group can't keep its artificial milk-crate reef together in Lake Ponchartrain. We've had a lot of wind the last week or so. Lots of wind = lots of waves = plastic milk crates washing up on shore and/or busting all to pieces. Haven't heard anything from the fourth group.
As to my own classes -- I've been putting in an average of 10-12 hour days on campus for about a week now (although I managed to stay home all day today -- yee-haw). I have two papers with presentations to finish in a week and a half (physiology) to two weeks (seminar). The physiology presentation is no longer during a class session but at some as-yet-undetermined time outside of class. ::sigh:: Like I have time for that. I have 121 species of fish to learn to identify on sight by this Friday, and all I have to say about that is "damn minnows." Actually, they were upgraded to a more colorful expletive last week, but I don't want to hurt some folks' delicate sensibilities. Oh yeah, and fish bones. Let's not forget dem bones, dem bones.
My bro is in the hospital with pneumonia. He's doing well and should be out Monday.
My pal Amy is in town the first part of this week, so we're going to hang together in the Quarter Tuesday night. She may also be back in town Dec. 2-6, so I may get to see her again then. Will be a nice break before my finals on the 7th and the 10th. My advisor Barney invited me to go with him and his family to the Hammond RenFaire next weekend. Need to see if I can afford to rent a van -- I'd sure love to go since I haven't had my Fall Faire fix.
Will head home on Dec. 17th, and will stay until Jan. 7th.
::Dawn heads back under her piles of articles and behind her jars of fish::
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