Tuesday: Travel sucks.  Got to OMA with plenty of time, more than I expected really, to find out that once my plane did arrive that it was going to be delayed because of some leakage of hydraulic fluid - peachy.  Over an hour later they finally announced when they thought we would leave and land at O'Hare, which was going to be about 10mins before ( Read more... )

I could probably write volumes about the events of this past week at the conference for the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, but some of those tales will have to wait for another day.  Suffice to say, I am tired.  That is what I get for staying up all last night since I had to leave for the airport at 4a for my 6a flight ( Read more... )

I have until noon on May 21st to come up with an abstract to submit for the SVP conference this year and I'm getting antsy. Prior to March I knew what I was going to submit but after getting the reviews back on the paper it was going to be based on I began to rethink things. With less than three weeks to go, I'm still undecided on what to do and ( Read more... )

If I were to make a blaxploitation film today, that would be the title... and here is why ( Read more... )

As of about 24hrs ago, I am home from BG but I'm only here for another 24hrs. Then I'll be on the road again with others from NIU on our way to Canada for the SVP meeting and won't get back until late Sunday night/Monday morning. I'm already exhausted at the thought of it all ( Read more... )

It never fails - finally give up something and then it comes through for you. After yesterday's bitching about the sloth skull I needed and wasn't going to get, a fact I finally resigned myself to and found a way around, I then get this email from my advisor ( Read more... )

Today hasn't felt like the best day. This fact has nothing to do with this post - I just wanted it out there for the record ( Read more... )