Neoceratodus forsteri...
soon, very soon...the new kid at The Tank will be arriving...needless to say, i'm very excited. as early as wednesday or thursday quite possibly the final addition (at least to my portion) of The Tank will arrive, and you can rest assured there will be much (or at least amongst fish nerds and close friends) celebration.
it's been a really good past week or so; surprisingly research meetings have gone really well, trips home have been enjoyable as usual, and spending time with friends has been a lot of fun even if my usual OCD/AR-planning hasn't always been as big of a factor. perhaps i'll comment further in future entries. for now, brief bullets:
- congrats to janine on her first day at her real actual job! good to see that some people have made the jump from grad school to the real world and are able to get some $$ out of it as well! i'm just impressed you can make that commute!
- we had a lot of people over for the pistons game (also referred -appropriately- as THE game tonight) and the grey's anatomy season finale. good times for sure, except the pistons played like crap at the end, and the last hour with the hospital prom was coated in an extra thick layer of CHEESE. nevertheless, next season should prove interesting. ...and an overwhelming number of people were hoping meredith would throw herself off the balcony at the end of the show.
me and a wood turtle that we found during field work on the Muskegon River back in 2004, we considered it good luck for the work-week whenever we found a good old
Clemmys insculpta.
- i taped 24 tonight and james and i were watching it after everyone took off, BUT something was apparently on earlier in the evening that caused a delay with the show's start time...therefore we missed the last 13 minutes!!!! if i didn't have some tostitos 'hint of lime' chips nearby i would have been MUCH more upset about this. i guess i'll just have to download this episode off iTunes tomorrow so we can watch the end. UGH. stupid Fox network.
- the woodwork found in aquarium setups (at least those which are more oriented towards the 'natural look') is called 'driftwood' and not 'sticks'!!! this is a fact. i'm going to start liberally handing out -2 skill-level rankings to anyone who disagrees with me.
- speaking of aquariums, one of my major sources of funding for this summer will apparently be coming from writing articles for a fish magazine. luckily i enjoy doing this, and i should be able to work on my research at the same time. also lucky this is the largest and most highly-circulated fish magazine in the world...AND i'm a big fish nerd. :)
blast from the past...jeremy and i working in my room on my first sump-filtration system setup back at the old apartment (pre-The Tank days) in Spicetree. needless to say, we flooded the bottom of the tank 2-3 times...
- i was home this past weekend and (ironically) continued the 'education' of my family on somewhat current indian movies. my sisters enjoyed 'american desi' and my parents (and sarah) liked 'bollywood/hollywood'. it sill baffles me that i'm the one apparently reintroducing my family to aspects of the culture, but oh well. oh, and apparently my grandma is willing (and has been for quite some time) to fund my trip to india sometime in the near future. sweet.
- on the same note, it was great to be home for a little while and get together with the family. always entertaining to hang out with the sibs and have some good conversation with the rents. i also gave my mom a CD of some popular bollywood songs so she could listen to them on the commute to work...i think she'll be singing them by the time i go back for rachel's graduation in june. oh, and jeevan didn't attack me as much this time; that was a plus.
- gwen brought me a take 5 chocolate cookie candy bar tonight...i'm torn between eating it up to test it against the original, or to save it for a movie or something like that. i'll get back to you all with these much anticipated results. on another note, double D was fascinated to see my room for the first time tonight (i was showing him the Halo 3 trailer). later upon seeing all of our rooms, he realized he needs more fish stuff. no, WE are not crazy with fish stuff at The Tank...
ok i need to get to sleep. i hope you all had a great weekend, and i promise to keep up with more interesting and pointless entries in the near future. good night! <:><
music:
"Believe" - Yellowcard
"Dressed to Kill" - New Found Glory
random pics:
it's been a really good past week or so; surprisingly research meetings have gone really well, trips home have been enjoyable as usual, and spending time with friends has been a lot of fun even if my usual OCD/AR-planning hasn't always been as big of a factor. perhaps i'll comment further in future entries. for now, brief bullets:
- congrats to janine on her first day at her real actual job! good to see that some people have made the jump from grad school to the real world and are able to get some $$ out of it as well! i'm just impressed you can make that commute!
- we had a lot of people over for the pistons game (also referred -appropriately- as THE game tonight) and the grey's anatomy season finale. good times for sure, except the pistons played like crap at the end, and the last hour with the hospital prom was coated in an extra thick layer of CHEESE. nevertheless, next season should prove interesting. ...and an overwhelming number of people were hoping meredith would throw herself off the balcony at the end of the show.
me and a wood turtle that we found during field work on the Muskegon River back in 2004, we considered it good luck for the work-week whenever we found a good old Clemmys insculpta.
- i taped 24 tonight and james and i were watching it after everyone took off, BUT something was apparently on earlier in the evening that caused a delay with the show's start time...therefore we missed the last 13 minutes!!!! if i didn't have some tostitos 'hint of lime' chips nearby i would have been MUCH more upset about this. i guess i'll just have to download this episode off iTunes tomorrow so we can watch the end. UGH. stupid Fox network.
- the woodwork found in aquarium setups (at least those which are more oriented towards the 'natural look') is called 'driftwood' and not 'sticks'!!! this is a fact. i'm going to start liberally handing out -2 skill-level rankings to anyone who disagrees with me.
- speaking of aquariums, one of my major sources of funding for this summer will apparently be coming from writing articles for a fish magazine. luckily i enjoy doing this, and i should be able to work on my research at the same time. also lucky this is the largest and most highly-circulated fish magazine in the world...AND i'm a big fish nerd. :)
blast from the past...jeremy and i working in my room on my first sump-filtration system setup back at the old apartment (pre-The Tank days) in Spicetree. needless to say, we flooded the bottom of the tank 2-3 times...- i was home this past weekend and (ironically) continued the 'education' of my family on somewhat current indian movies. my sisters enjoyed 'american desi' and my parents (and sarah) liked 'bollywood/hollywood'. it sill baffles me that i'm the one apparently reintroducing my family to aspects of the culture, but oh well. oh, and apparently my grandma is willing (and has been for quite some time) to fund my trip to india sometime in the near future. sweet.
- on the same note, it was great to be home for a little while and get together with the family. always entertaining to hang out with the sibs and have some good conversation with the rents. i also gave my mom a CD of some popular bollywood songs so she could listen to them on the commute to work...i think she'll be singing them by the time i go back for rachel's graduation in june. oh, and jeevan didn't attack me as much this time; that was a plus.
- gwen brought me a take 5 chocolate cookie candy bar tonight...i'm torn between eating it up to test it against the original, or to save it for a movie or something like that. i'll get back to you all with these much anticipated results. on another note, double D was fascinated to see my room for the first time tonight (i was showing him the Halo 3 trailer). later upon seeing all of our rooms, he realized he needs more fish stuff. no, WE are not crazy with fish stuff at The Tank...
ok i need to get to sleep. i hope you all had a great weekend, and i promise to keep up with more interesting and pointless entries in the near future. good night! <:><
music:
"Believe" - Yellowcard
"Dressed to Kill" - New Found Glory
random pics:
just a little over two years ago these little guys (after a lot of work) finally arrived. there will be similar fanfare soon...
posted by Solomon at 1:16 AM
1 Comments:
i think that this is one of your longest stretches without an update.
pull yourself together 'yar'!!!
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