The Wild Life and Times of a Botanical Geek

New definition for a lost weekend: Spending your entire weekend at school for a class, collecting leaves and torturing them with heat to find out how well they're still able to photosynthesize. It was a neat study, and I learned how to use a chlorophyll fluorometer, but I wasn't particularly keen on basically having no weekend in order to do it. Oh well. It's over now.

On a different note, we have bluebirds! Dad put up some bluebird boxes last week, and on Sunday we saw that a bluebird couple had moved into one of them! It's really exciting to see, considering how uncommon they are and how little they come out into the open. Lucky for us we have prime bluebird habitat--edge of woods, with a big huge swath of field, excellent for hunting insects in (Bluebirds, little recommendation: EAT THE JAPANESE BEETLE GRUBS).

It's hilarious watching them interact. You can almost see the female henpecking the male: "NO. I want those twigs over THERE." "*sigh* Yes dear." "And you'd better not go wandering off tonight! I need you to help me weave the new nest! I don't want to see you carousing with those wrens!" "Yes dear. I'm sorry dear." "And get me a pickle!" "Yes, dear."

Still alive, honest. I've taken pictures of the Avokids, but I just haven't gotten around to writing up a report yet. School's going. Somehow, I'm surviving. My first exam's on Wednesday, so I'm, needless to say, just a WEE bit nervous. And I'm supposed to meet with my advisors in a little under two weeks, so I'm really hoping then I can get my thesis hammered out. Right now, I feel like I don't have direction on that, and it's probably contributing to my need to FLAIL! I need purpose, and a goal to shoot for, I think.

But enough of that! I'll go ahead and post up this meme. I can't guarantee I'll have it done in a week (in fact, I can almost guarantee it won't be done in a week), but we can at least get a list going. <3

VALENTINE'S DAY MEME/GIFT THING

Name me any two characters whom you want to see paired up (whether from RPG, fandom, real life, or any crossovers). Within the next week, I will write you either a story of at least 300 words or a FST of at least 5 songs.