Status: Rage in the Cage [ants, Arizona]
Jul. 9th, 2021 11:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rebeccmeisterThis third set of seed-harvester ant queens looks MUCH better than the first batch did. THANK GOODNESS.
I keep thinking back to the year that we named the seed-harvester experiment "Rage in the Cage." That was probably 2006, because by then we had some sense of what we were doing and what to expect, including a better understanding that these experiments are a bit brutal for a short period of time.
But that's kind of the beauty of them, too. They are brutal and intense, and then they end.
I have not been getting any writing done yet. It's making me anxious. But I can't do everything, especially not the thing that requires quiet and concentration, while also supervising undergrads and trying to deal with cantankerous instrumentation.
Onward.
I keep thinking back to the year that we named the seed-harvester experiment "Rage in the Cage." That was probably 2006, because by then we had some sense of what we were doing and what to expect, including a better understanding that these experiments are a bit brutal for a short period of time.
But that's kind of the beauty of them, too. They are brutal and intense, and then they end.
I have not been getting any writing done yet. It's making me anxious. But I can't do everything, especially not the thing that requires quiet and concentration, while also supervising undergrads and trying to deal with cantankerous instrumentation.
Onward.
