Collecting and dissecting and other things in my life

So I spent a good chunk of my weekend in the lab - friday night and saturday afternoon - dissecting fish and only have one more to go! After spending a good chunk of time last week running around for non-work related things I needed to spend some time working over the weekend. I certainly feel a bit better about my work load now that I've made some headway. Friday morning I helped some labmates collect organisms...we collected Whelks. marine snails, for Tommy...they have a proboscis (nose-like extension used to detect chemicals) and a feeding tube. So we were out in the wind, light rain and cold walking in the harbor at low tide collecting these things...they're scavengers so if there was something that was dead then you'd find loads of the Whelks feeding on it. Julie needed crabs but the tide was too high in the inlet so we couldn't do that. And Robert and Tommy also collected cockles (like clams - I'm learning the local lingo for animals) from another site.

I went to a dance club with the girls on saturday night...supposedly Julie said it was a club for all ages...yeah, right! The drinking age here is 18 and OMG were we surrounded by teenagers at the club! We had a great time of course, but I think next time I'll try The Fever where they play 70's music and Julie says old people go to....that's sounds much more like me!

Did some shopping on sunday...finally I bought a down comforter and duvet cover! I soo didn't want to get out of my bed this morning! I also bought a small duffel bag for my winery trip this weekend and that I will also use for my workout clothes for going to the rec center.

Starting to think about Thanksgiving. Julie brought it up the other day. I'll be in my new flat so I'm thinking of hosting a dinner...I'll try to remember to thaw my turkey before Thanksgiving day this year!! :) We'll see what memorable story comes out this year's dinner! Turkey is hard to come by here...there's no sliced turkey lunch meat, only sliced chicken breast. I looked at a frozen turkey for $60 yesterday. I'll have to ask around and see what other Americans are doing for it...