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Crickets, crickets.
Nov. 9th, 2012 05:23 pmIt is ten minutes past five on a Friday, so the lab is finally quiet. I'm going to stay here for at least another hour; there's a crew potluck tonight on this side of town and I've already prepared my potluck item: quiche, that food that tastes good at any temperature, that is vegetarian and that was hopefully a good way to use up the kale from last week's csa share. When looking around for ideas on what to include with the kale, I encountered a website recommending gruyere. The only kind of gruyere available at the local supermarket was Boar's Head brand. I would like to know what's wrong with that company. They produce around fifteen different kinds of cheese, and not a single one of them is any good whatsoever. I guess it's better than Kraft plastic American cheese? So anyway, I may have ruined the quiche with their gruyere. We shall see. It was what I could manage.
A thing which I had feared has come to pass; the next generation of young crickets has grown to adulthood before the prior generation died. That means I am beginning another round of the experiment before ending the previous round. These days, I tend to say, "More crickets died!" with an exclamation of happiness, because the current experiment involves measuring cricket lifespans, so the experiment can only end when the crickets all die.
I think I'll manage to pull through okay, primarily because of some changes we're making between the previous iteration and the one which is just starting. One of the biggest changes is that things will be synchronized on a weeklong timescale. That means that we won't have to come in to take care of crickets over the weekend - a tremendous relief. The weekend work isn't all that hard, but it's a pain to have to schedule around it every weekend. There will still be massive amounts of egg-counting, however, and another added component (measuring metabolic rates), so November is still going to be fairly crazy. Just enough changes to give me some faint hope of retaining sanity for the next couple of months. What's left of it, at least.
A thing which I had feared has come to pass; the next generation of young crickets has grown to adulthood before the prior generation died. That means I am beginning another round of the experiment before ending the previous round. These days, I tend to say, "More crickets died!" with an exclamation of happiness, because the current experiment involves measuring cricket lifespans, so the experiment can only end when the crickets all die.
I think I'll manage to pull through okay, primarily because of some changes we're making between the previous iteration and the one which is just starting. One of the biggest changes is that things will be synchronized on a weeklong timescale. That means that we won't have to come in to take care of crickets over the weekend - a tremendous relief. The weekend work isn't all that hard, but it's a pain to have to schedule around it every weekend. There will still be massive amounts of egg-counting, however, and another added component (measuring metabolic rates), so November is still going to be fairly crazy. Just enough changes to give me some faint hope of retaining sanity for the next couple of months. What's left of it, at least.
