SharkLady

Update: THIS IS BLOG #100. WHOOHOO!! =) I just can't believe how fast time seems to be going by. I only have about a week and a half before classes start here and then two weeks until AFS in Seattle where I'm presenting some research. I'm really looking forward to seeing my family since I haven't seen them since Christmas. Things have been kind of exciting around here though. I moved into my very first apartment. It's a small studio, but just the right size for me. They even re-did the outside with all new paneling and the inside is a bright white with nice new appliances and carpet. The same day I got back from the field, I rented and drove my first UHAUL and moved ALL of my stuff in about 2 hours. I ... read more

Nerves and butterflies are fine - they're a physical sign that you're mentally ready and eager. You have to get the butterflies to fly in formation, that's the trick." ~Steve Bull It's already July?!? Where is the time going? It's so crazy because the weeks seem to fly by, but some individual days seem to creep by. It's my day off and I have spent it sleeping in, watching Grey's Anatomy (season 6), and spent most of the afternoon here at Woodwinds browsing the net and attempting to teach myself about mixed models and multivariate analyses. Sounds fun, huh? Well the rest of my days off this week will be much more exciting, but I wanted to update my blog about my latest adventure. In early June, after returning from Duluth, John looked at my ragged ... read more

It's the first day of June and hard to believe. I'm not sure if it feels like August or it feels like the beginning of May, but either way, my sense of time has completely diminished. I'm not in Onaway although that is where I have been for the past month. I'm actually currently in Duluth, Minnesota, but I'll save the reasons why and the photos for my next entry. This entry is about the last 31 days. Is that all it has been? It has felt like 4 months...not 4 weeks. Why? One word: Sturgeon! But let me start just a few days prior to that. On Friday April 29, I was finished with all of my classes and had just one final paper to write up. So I packed up my room, moved all ... read more

This is going to be a very brief and short entry. I finally made it "home" today, back to Lansing and tomorrow it's back to the grind with lab work, experiment prepping, meetings, presentations, ordering stuff for the field, a car appointment, classes, and so much more. While I left Juneau in tears, it was the most gorgeous sunset and a beautiful goodbye that I had to write a short entry (and Lisa wanted to see these two pictures hehe). This blog has become my outlet in so many ways and has helped me reflect when my hand was shaking too much to write. And while today has been a mix of emotions, I feel very at peace as I drink my tea and post these two pictures. I made a phone call and had a ... read more

Nope, this is not Sarah Palin's Alaska. This blog entry is about mine and about 30,000 other people that call Juneau their home. It's not my current place of residence, but it's definitely the place that I feel excited to see when that plane touches down and I know there is a big hug waiting for me in that newly remodeled terminal. And this is my spring break... I've only been in town for about three days now and so much has happened that I decided to split my spring break trip into two blogs. I can't believe how much has gone down! Some good, some downright horrible, and some kind of shocking. But I'm going to focus on the good bits before I call it a night because it has been a busy few days. ... read more