Update

Exciting News: I'm going to Australia for Christmas! Flying into Brisbane on the 15th, Rebbeca will pick me up and we'll do some traveling before spending the holidays with her parents! I'm sooooo excited! I had to book my flight back to Dunedin on New Year's Eve to get a good deal, so I'll be back here for the New Year. I started reading Down Under by Bill Bryson...borrowed it from the Aussie that I just got done housesitting for while she was away getting married in India.

I posted a couple photo albums. Anya left a while ago but I'm just getting around to posting photos.

I've been busy getting rust fixed on my truck. This country and it's damn requirements for vehicle "fitness" are crazy and frustrating! I've spent $300 on what needed immediate attention. I still need to have a color matched and paint it myself. Then I'll have about $400 worth of rust to remove from under the body! I really dislike living in such a humid environment...sweat doesn't evaporate, mold all over the house and now all this damn rust!

Lots of work lately! I've been teaching labs (which are over for the semester), doing some grading for extra money, I'm giving a 3-min talk on Friday competing for money, went fishing for dogfish (a type of shark) last week, trying to finish up another paper from my master's research, and most importantly, I've got my last experiment up and running and it hasn't been easy...leaking tank, running a cart into the tank and shattering one end (I cried hard over that one). I'm using eel-scented water to see if my parasite species can sense if it's next host is present or not. I'm also using perch water as a non-host predator. European perch are gorgeous!