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Another Day, Another Dollar...
May. 31st, 2004 07:46 pmI had to go in to the lab this morning for a meeting with...D and an under/grad. It was strange because although I have little or no knowledge of bees, I had the best idea of what needs to be done in the next while. So I had to grab the bull by the horns. We were finished planning the upcoming week after an hour.
As long as I had to bike to the lab, I figured I'd better really make it worth my while and get some of MY work done, so I collected eggs from two of my ant colonies and sorted them out into mini-eppendorf tubes. In other words, I spent some quality bonding time with a dissecting microscope and two insect pins. Since nobody else was around, I turned up kexp super-loud and got stuff done instead of being interrupted roughly every three minutes.
Then it was out into the blazing sun to watch bees for half an hour. We're up above 100 again. I can remember last fall, thinking that anything under 105 was bearable, and being really excited in October when the thermometer finally dropped under 100. It's time to get back into that frame of mind. It's the same as the first time it hits freezing up north, or ten degrees in New England, only it's on the other end of the spectrum. There's no point in complaining about it.
After steaming in a bee suit, I didn't feel like going home right away, so I took a nap on the newly imported loveseat in our lab (a brilliant move, that) and then figured out how to use the auto-timer on my camera to create sepiatone pictures, which was pretty funny (observe the new random photo). It made me feel somewhat autistic, though, to make strange faces at a little metal box.
As long as I had to bike to the lab, I figured I'd better really make it worth my while and get some of MY work done, so I collected eggs from two of my ant colonies and sorted them out into mini-eppendorf tubes. In other words, I spent some quality bonding time with a dissecting microscope and two insect pins. Since nobody else was around, I turned up kexp super-loud and got stuff done instead of being interrupted roughly every three minutes.
Then it was out into the blazing sun to watch bees for half an hour. We're up above 100 again. I can remember last fall, thinking that anything under 105 was bearable, and being really excited in October when the thermometer finally dropped under 100. It's time to get back into that frame of mind. It's the same as the first time it hits freezing up north, or ten degrees in New England, only it's on the other end of the spectrum. There's no point in complaining about it.
After steaming in a bee suit, I didn't feel like going home right away, so I took a nap on the newly imported loveseat in our lab (a brilliant move, that) and then figured out how to use the auto-timer on my camera to create sepiatone pictures, which was pretty funny (observe the new random photo). It made me feel somewhat autistic, though, to make strange faces at a little metal box.
