A blogging hiatus

I haven’t blogged in nearly a week, and shame on me for that. You already know the reason why—I was busy. I won’t woah is me about that here though, I mostly do that to Colleen on facebook anyways. I have kept busy this past week and weekend doing a number of different things.

Last weekend I headed out into the field and it was cold…no it was freezing. I can’t tell you how happy I was to finish my field work. That being said, I think I have missed some plots, and plan on dragging my Mom and sister out there next weekend (bet you guys didn’t know that!). There really isn’t much to see up North of Kingston anymore. The leaves have all fallen and the barren trees line the roads. Many fallen trees clutter the ditches as a result of the recent high winds and Hurricane Sandy. In October, you would see tonnes of deer lining the roads, and the open fields. They would stand out against the bright fall colours. Now, they are well-hidden amongst the shades of brown and grey. We did see a couple of little bucks grazing in the ditches but that was it. When I got how from the field it was hard to shake that chilled feeling, but with a combination of the heat being on, many blankets and a fat, friendly cat, I warmed up.

On Sunday my friend Kari got two new foster kittens,  4 week old sisters, Rosie and Lola. I was shocked they are SO small. Ugh…I love them. They’re so sweet, I can’t wait to go see them again soon, I hope they haven’t grown too much in a week.

Earlier this week, I taught a few classes at the library and worked a lot in the lab. I have been struggling with project ideas for awhile now. I HAVE ideas… I just have a hard time envisioning how I would ever make that project happen. I spent this morning covering our white/wipe board in stuff. That is about all I can say it is… is stuff. There is no theme, or organization, it’s just a bunch of ideas, facts, definitions—a smorgasbord of stuff.  I am meeting with my supervisor this afternoon to try and work through some of these thoughts I have. Maybe later this evening I will blog about that (but realistically I won’t). My volunteer was also here this morning and finished all my data entry. I was so happy, she is awesome. Once I have all of my samples weighed I will have her do that for me as well. So glad I went ahead and got her involved in this.

Tonight I am headed downtown to pick up my Dad’s Christmas gift that I specially ordered. Sorry Dad, I know you read this, so that’s as much information as you’ll be getting out of me. Then the BEERS seminar series is starting up again for the year. It’s a weekly (Behaviours, Ecology, Evolution, research seminar) where Grad students can present their research in an informal atmosphere, with their peers, not other faculty. After that, we have to make stew. We sold chili and raised a tonne of money for Biograds, so tomorrow, we are selling stew! Only thing is we have to figure out where, when and how to make it and we won’t be starting until at least 8:30.

Anyways, for now I am off to the Farmers market for now!