PhD?

I met with my advisor's husband yesterday to work on the rest of the GIS portion of my research. My advisor kept visiting us every now and then to see our progress and she brought up that my research can lead to several potential undergraduate projects (a good thing). And then her husband says, "Yeah, this could very easily lead to a PhD project."

1 second after statement I think, "Hm. Maybe I could earn a PhD."

2 seconds after statement I think, "NAAAAAH!!"

As I was driving home I thought to myself, "Now why in the world would you even consider doing a PhD?! He said it could easily lead to a PhD project...not that a PhD project would be easy!!"

Another note on my project: We've created a GIS model that takes parameters we specify as being prime squirrel habitat and finds those elements in the landscape surrounding my sites. There's an area to the north of my sites called Stratton Bald that shows up as being potential Glaucomys sabrinus coloratus habitat. I was floored with this discovery and assuming the NCWRC hasn't already trapped there, I'm betting they'll want to soon (& I'm betting they'll be granted the money to do so).

It's just great finally seeing the fruits of my efforts.

Feeling charitable?

My brother is doing the Maryland Polar Bear Plunge this year and his team is almost to their fundraising goal of $2000! Please help them reach that goal by donating - no amount is too small! Donations will benefit the Special Olympics of MD.

It's the little things

--found out my laptop's cd drive actually does work. I was able to then uninstall a program I've been trying to uninstall for months now. I have much more space now! I previously didn't even have enough space to run disk defrag!

--found out epilators around raised moles can be dangerous. Had to wear an armpit bandaid today. Can't say I've ever had to do that before.

Bigger problems in the world

I realize that there are worse things than what I'm about to talk about. I also realize there are more interesting things to talk about.

I'm a light sleeper--example: my brother woke me up around 1 or 2 in the morning over the Christmas break from talking to his gamer friends online (his room was the one above mine).

It seems like such a weird thing to be thankful for, but I was so excited to learn my husband doesn't snore. My DOG, however, has decided she's going to snore every night. It started right before break and has continued. I had to start wearing my pink ear plugs to sleep at night. Those started to hurt like heck (and wake me up), so I reverted to my dad's Nascar earplugs with a string that keeps the two plugs connected (I didn't choose them first because I was afraid they would choke me at night--that didn't happen). I also thought they would hurt more since that weren't as soft as the others, but that wasn't the case--quite the opposite. But last night the right one started to hurt and I think I've determined that my right ear is smaller than the left. I also know Athena's still snoring because sometimes she'll wake me up even with the ear plugs, and sometimes one will fall out during the night.

Long story short, I need to invest in some good ear plugs. I'd like to be able to sleep through the night. Either that or send Athena to a shelter. *JOKING!*

This is what I'm talking about

I counted 23 coozies. Why do we have 23 coozies? Do we need 23 coozies? Definitely not. And my guess is we probably have more than that in boxes etc.

Ever have one of those days?

The only thing that seemed to work out today was lunch with one of our friends. Quite refreshing.

But then I managed to cut the beautiful dogwood print ($12) to fit the frame...crooked. I'll now have to buy a mat to make it look okay.

C tried to hang a shelving unit on the wall; got one end secured (or so we thought) and when he went to work on the other end, the first end came loose, fell, and put a big hole in one wall & scuff marks on the other. The newly painted walls. Strangely, I felt nothing. I just said, "Want to work on this tomorrow?"

C also has been trying to piece together a working PC for me from my dead computer & his old one. We got one running but it turned out to be too slow to let me play The Sims. I know, I don't need to be playing it anyway. So he was trying to use faster parts from my old computer & his hard drive. First the monitor wasn't working (it had been previously), then the mouse wasn't working (it had before), and now, it keeps freezing up when trying to reformat. I had high hopes of playing The Sims tonight. Somehow I don't think that will happen...considering it's been on 5% for 10 minutes now.

But I suppose that's okay. I need to submit an abstract for ASB tonight anyway. Can you hear the saturation of enthusiasm?