Nostalgia

[rebeccmeister]

T and I are giving two presentations on our research in Australia this week. It's making me quite nostalgic; all of our silly little jokes are popping back into my mind (references to Halictine sharks, for example), and I've been looking through pictures of cute little coffeeshops and markets and emus and kangaroos.

This picture is still my favorite:

I am pretending to be a bigger emu to keep the emus from attacking me (that's what the sign said to do).

I think about Australia a lot while I cook as well. It was so nice to cook and eat communally with four other people who all have different cooking backgrounds and different knowledge and ideas to contribute. I especially wish I could watch R make a loaf of bread because his bread is so delicious.

Ceramics last night was nice. I had to trim a lot of pieces, which I always find tedious, and it's especially hard with pieces that aren't quite centered (symmetrical). I managed to throw a nice bowl as well.

Oh, and I joined a bike club (I guess this would be a second bike club, if you count The People's Ride as the first one). It only has four members so far, but we have spoke cards, so I guess that makes us official (I think they basically only let me join because they had an extra spoke card). I had to join because the name of the club is the Acromyrmex versicolor bike club (that's the name of the leafcutter ant species that I study). So now I have an awesome drawing of a leafcutter ant queen between the spokes of the Jolly Roger. I figure it will get more attention if it's on the Jolly Roger.

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Actually, it doesn't have horizontal drops either.