I feel dumb using an Ambystomatid larva icon for this entry...I need a Desmog or at least a Plethodontid....

I started my thesis research on Thursday and I'm SO excited! I'm sampling local populations of Desmognathus salamanders for a blood parasite. The bacterial parasite isn't selective by sex and isn't habitat specific-mildly positive ( Read more... )

I'm a couple days later than I wanted to be with this art post, but I finally did it. It was a lot of work, and my computer's clicky button ended up breaking in the process. I'm super bummed :C Anyone know how much a typical Mac repair will run? I've got it ghetto rigged with a paper clip right now so that I can actually DO stuff, but it's going to ( Read more... )

So much to talk about. I hope everyone's holidays were awesome! They ended too soon I think. Despite the financial bind my family was in this year, everyone really went balls out with the gifts! I definitely loved watching everyone else open theirs more than I enjoyed opening mine this year though. I had so many surprises for everyone, and that's ( Read more... )

So drawings have been piling up and I figured it was high time for another art post. My moleskin has been getting a lot of my love recently. Poor older sketchbook :c It's just so cute and leatherbound and has a big pocket for me to put leaves and scraps where I write my dreams and ideas! And then they're all there for me to peek at when I want to! ( Read more... )

I scanned all the images that have built up over these weeks of inactivity. It's so sad how little I've been drawing. I've felt so unmotivated :c Hopefully with the internets back in my grasp, it will all come rushing back! I've got a couple images of my new living space under the cut, as well as some of my cane toad and a very vague image of the ( Read more... )

I realized I had been promising an art dump for a while now! It's been SO long! So I went through my sketchbooks to find things to scan and I could only find 15 things. 15. Fifteen. Yes, that is how hectic my summer has been. Since the conclusion of the school year (in May) until now, I have only made 15 things. SAD. No wonder my brain is about to ( Read more... )