Like a bee

I been busy, busy, busy...the theme of 2010 for Kristin. I'm running my last experiment....3 weeks in now and only 1 death cause the fish jumped the tank. Fingers crossed that they last at least another 3 weeks! I'm completing my last bit of fieldwork (check out the new photo album), but need to go back to one of the lakes cause I didn't get enough fish. I may also need to redo the 5th lake...it was too windy at Lake Ohau and my nets and traps got blown around so that several traps were blown to shore or blown around on the rocks so much they ended up with huge holes. 3 of the lakes were local and 2 were about 4 hours away, so Kim, the field tech, and I got to go camping and fishing while we set traps out overnight at those 2 lakes. It was beautiful. Although I've been sick for a week and a half now and was sick during the trip and I spent a good chunk of time reading some background information for a post-doc job application that I submitted today! It would be an intriguing system...on the parasite that causes limb malformations in frogs. And in Boulder, Colorado. We shall see, next I'm looking for grant money to apply for to work with a fish guy in MN and parasite guy in Alberta on a co-mentored project.