wildlife day
Yesterday was wildlife day at the apartment: fruit flies and baby squirrels. These are different in every regard:
Fruit flies:
Very annoying
Lots of them
All over, in the apartment
But given that we have fruit flies, we've got (I think) the coolest species to have, Drosophila melanogaster itself (the standard genetics experiment fly)
Baby squirrels:
Very cute
Not many (I don't think, but:)
Hiding, not in the apartment
But given that we have baby squirrels, probably the least cool species to have. I'd like to think they were Sciurus griseus (the western gray), but they're almost certainly actually S. carolinensis, a nasty invader from the east.
In other news, we're starting to have actually furniture in our room. We spent 6 hours assembling our bed on Thursday, picked up miatauro's old dresser on Friday, and took a bookshelf and a file cabinet off ceolrince's hands on Saturday.
Though the file cabinet was for ostone and the bookshelf didn't end up in our room either, it turned out to be a better fit for the living room, we moved the dvds which were previously forming a small wall across the living room to it.
Fruit flies:
Very annoying
Lots of them
All over, in the apartment
But given that we have fruit flies, we've got (I think) the coolest species to have, Drosophila melanogaster itself (the standard genetics experiment fly)
Baby squirrels:
Very cute
Not many (I don't think, but:)
Hiding, not in the apartment
But given that we have baby squirrels, probably the least cool species to have. I'd like to think they were Sciurus griseus (the western gray), but they're almost certainly actually S. carolinensis, a nasty invader from the east.
In other news, we're starting to have actually furniture in our room. We spent 6 hours assembling our bed on Thursday, picked up miatauro's old dresser on Friday, and took a bookshelf and a file cabinet off ceolrince's hands on Saturday.
Though the file cabinet was for ostone and the bookshelf didn't end up in our room either, it turned out to be a better fit for the living room, we moved the dvds which were previously forming a small wall across the living room to it.