Uneventful Day

Today I went up to the lab in the morning to change destaining solution on fish as well as give Carla, my assistant, instructions on which "old" fish to cull and how to do it.

I spent the afternoon dozing and editing Kender's Torchwood fanfic -- if none of my stuff will write, I might as well beta for someone who's stories will write.

Tonight, I watched an episode of Nova titled "The Lord of the Ants" about Harvard's Dr. Edward O. Wilson, a.k.a. my god of biology. Of the 600+ known species of ants, he has described about half. He also helped develop the hypothesis of island biogeography (which discusses extinctions on and repopulation of islands and then extrapolates that to how much land area is REALLY needed to maintain species of interest), was attacked for his idea of sociobiology, and is extremely active in conservation arenas. I own a number of his books, but there are two I cannot afford that I want badly: The Ants (co-authored with Bert Holldobler, won a Pulitzer Prize) with a cover price of about $80, and Pheidole of the New World with a cover price of about $140. The latter contains reproductions of Dr. Wilson's sketches for each species.

So, not a particularly active day, but not hum-drum either. Back to my beta duties.