So I headed out to Interfuse a day early, on Wednesday, to help with setup, and so that I would be there to cover a Parking Wrangler shift on Thursday. Nothing overly interesting happened to me Wednesday, though a lot of the setup had to be put on hold because Zay, the Midwest Burners bigwig was bringing components of a bunch of camps, and had ( Read more... )

I got a call this afternoon from one of the places I'm applying to to set up an interview. So I have to go to Tennessee to talk to them. I knew this was coming, but I was actually hoping it would be a bit later. As it stands, next week I head to Interfuse, which runs Thursday through Sunday. Sunday I come home, unload the car, reload the car ( Read more... )

I finally got home last night. I've got one chapter of my dissertation nearly finished, and it's bloody huge. over 20 pages of single-spaced text, which will likely expand to about 75 with the required formatting and figures. Two other much smaller chapters are probably about half done (currently about 3 and 7 pages of text ( Read more... )

Hippo is going well. We’re effectively done with the skull, though there will likely be a need for another partial day in the collections before leaving, once I’ve had a chance to clean up the description and find the holes ( Read more... )

Trish got fired/quit preemptively from the live-in position, so we had to relocate. We're now back about a block from the townhouse I'd been in for the previous few years. She's found another job, which she's not excited about, but it beats the hell out of continuous 12-hour days and being perpetually on-call (and no, I'm not exaggerating ( Read more... )

The hippo’s not getting done this summer. I’m a little annoyed about that. But we’ve got one publication nearly done, and another one might be done by the end of the summer. Then I’ll have a third one that is about half written up already, I just need to figure out the rest of what the auditory tube (connecting the ear to the throat, formerly ( Read more... )

Plus another four a few days ago ( Read more... )

I haven't had a chance to post recently because I've been that busy, and my internet access has been that flaky. We've only had a couple days so far on the dissection, because of various other outside factors, but we're making serious progress toward another paper (nearly done with the first draft, and it's fairly hefty) on hippo teeth, growth, ( Read more... )

I posted the early part of the Story of the Coat previously as well as bits of the later story, so ( here’s the rest )

Or at least, my part is. I finished the coat to be set on fire at 5:30 this morning, and the stunt guys loved it. Even after being set on fire, it was still in good shape, only the top layer being charred at all. So they turned it inside out and draped it over the dummy for the second shot. And then they set the barn on fire. I'll be getting ( Read more... )