I have no witty title today

It is snowing. Again. Please, please, please.... can we just go one week with no new snow? Please? (I've almost decided that if and when I get to choose where I live & work, there will be zero possibility of snow, and it will be glorious.)

I've been meaning to update for a while and just haven't gotten around to it. So here we go, in list form.

1. A fairly major person in my field, Dr. Ronald Schusterman, died recently. I don't know much of his work, but his lab focused on some really interesting stuff, and I know my advisor is close to at least one of his students. I'm disappointed that I never got to meet him.

2. There is a possibility that I will go on some field work in the next couple of months. YES. I need this. I need to get out of the lab and to see some of the people that I've worked with the last couple of years. (I also need the time crunch that will get me motivated to finish my analyses for my conference in April, but we won't talk about that...)

3. Advisor has told me that our lab will "make an offer" for one of the students we interviewed. Kind of makes it sound like we're buying a car, rather than hiring someone, though I suppose that's how it's done. Should be interesting.... when she interviewed, she mentioned that another school was going to take her whale-watching during her visit. I still haven't decided if that's a point in our favor (the other lab doesn't study whales), or not. Hmm.

4. It turns out that my cooking repertoire is somewhat limited. Pasta, while lovely, gets very old, very fast. Do any of you have favorite recipes I can try out? I'm a decent cook, so if you have something you really like (that hopefully involves minimal pasta!), tell me!

And there you have it, my life in bullet points. Or numbers, I suppose.

Let's hope for warm and sunny weather this week!

It's like whack-a-mole

Seriously, I keep knocking off some projects (see: committee meeting and major exam, whoo!), and ending up with more! (Yes, I know this is how life works. Shush.)

Class work is really eating my time these days, though hopefully the workload is about to slack off a bit and I can catch up on some research stuff. Or, you know, interview prospective students who apparently feel that they are allowed to switch their interviews by a week & not let the program know.... etc. I'm a little put off by the fact that my advisor really wants this one & is aggressively wooing them, which means that I'm expected to snuggle up to them too. And take them out on Friday night, etc. Ugh. And then the official interview weekend is coming up, which I always volunteer at (and have fun with), so that should be good.

Yet another clash between whalers and activists last weekend...this one ended with a hole in one of the ships. When are they going to learn?