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New blog
I love you livejournal, but I wanted to start something new for people to read that wasn't my somewhat private livejournal.
The new blog will consist of my adventures with this summer's field season in North Carolina and Tennessee working with bats. yay! and also adventures for the bike tour that Matt and I will be on after this. bats, adventures, blog, bikes, matt39th NASBR
haven't updated, because where would I begin ( Read more... )June & July part 2 of 3
You've been tracking bats all day, walking through meadows of poison ivy. You've never seen this much before. The high points are clear of the ivy, but they are clear of everything and the sun beats down hard. 90+ degrees. Your energy is up though, because you managed to find at least one of the bat's trees. Your out of time for tracking that day. ( Read more... )June & July.
From pines to palms, mountains to beaches, waterfalls to waves. My scabs fade to scars. The past two months I found myself in a place where there are more trees than people. Now I find myself in a place where cement homes are painted in pastels. Hello Englewood, Florida. Only minutes away from the ocean, after 2 days I have gained back my energy to ( Read more... )adventure.
11 hour train ride to Montreal starts 23 of February. A week with Amanda------- we'll fill our insides with warm tea, deep discussions and vegan treats. Our stomachs will ache from laughter and our cheeks will be sore from smiling and endless conversation. All of this I call the best of friendships ( Read more... )update.
Still in Flint. Still working 4 days a week. Class 2x week. Not sure when I'm moving. Hopefully soon ( Read more... )day off
day off work, but I still have to drive down to work. I'm finally finishing up my research. Well the portion at OBC. We have to test a lot of bats today, but I think we can bust through it pretty quickly. I hope. I hope we can finish at least. Lots of the microbats, hopefully all goes well ( Read more... )Guatemala plans
I'm so fucking excited. I've been really nervous and haven't talked about this much because I've been afraid that I couldn't get things to work out with finding a contact in Guatemala, enabling me to do my research down there. But today I got a response ( Read more... )the big day
Some people refer to their wedding day as "the big day." This is very much so not the case with me.
Today I actually do my thesis research project. I've talked about it a lot, but now I actually have to do it. I feel anxious, intimidated, but excited. Sometimes I stop and think: How did I get here? Am I really prepared? I start to feel not very ( Read more... )tasks
I keep waking up in the morning and feeling completely overwhelmed even from the simplest tasks. It's a bit ridiculous and all comes down to me just being lazy.. and probably nervous, too ( Read more... )