I'm aliiiiiiive!!! So it's been a while. What have I been up to?
Well.
I'm still living with Andy. It's going well. They've started construction on the new apartment building next door, and they start nice and early every weekday, so even when I don't have work I can't sleep in. It's kind of cool though watching a building appear from the ground up. The site had been delayed for building because ancient maori buildings had been found at the site and there was a legal conservation battle going on. They finally ended up encasing the sites in solid steel and I think they will have a glass floor so that you can look down on them from inside the building when it's done. We'll see. All that's done now is the foundation and one wall of steel girders 3 levels high.
I'm still working at Wholly Bagels. I've worked extra this week because Bean has been out of town, as as much as I don't like to say it, I don't really enjoy working there without my sidekick. It's not nearly as much fun, and the place is full of dumb people and cocky people and lazy lazy lazy people. It just drives me insane when people do no work. It's okay though, it's a paycheck. I think I might start begging for another raise seeing as how I'm one of the few people that is always doing work there. In another note, if I decide to stay in New Zealand, I can be pretty sure that I can have a full time managers job at bagels. I don't want it, but if i got stuck...guess it's a back-up plan...
Last week I went to a conference down in Nelson. The New Zealand Marine Sciences Society conference. I made a poster for it. It was extremely disappointing for me overall. Last years' conference was fun, lots of drinking and chatting and having fun. This year I couldn't afford to drink and thus, got snubbed and ignored by everybody. The poster session I was looking forward to answering questions about my project, but I looked gross cuz it had been a long day and nobody asked me any questions. Made me sad. Basically I enjoyed the sun in Nelson, and getting to know my labmates better, even if it wasn't fun for me. The whole trip really tore down my confidence. I've finally gotten over that "i'm worthless, boring and ugly" stage, but that conference brought it all back. The best part about the trip was coming home to my boy who still likes me and wants me. Went to a couple interesting seminars, realized that I really am more of an environmental science person, I'm interested in more general ecology as opposed to purely marine. I think I actually want to look at anthropogenic effects, which isn't purely marine most of the time because humans don't affect central oceans.
Anyways, other than that, my research isn't going nearly as well as I want it to. I'm supposed to be re-infecting anemones and they're not re-infecting. My entire thesis depends on them and they're not doing it. My supervisor is thinking of back-up plans and other things I can work on, but I like my project. I'll probably also not finish on time because of this. Damn anemones!@!
This is probably getting pretty long, I'll try to update more often so I don't have so much to say at once.
Today I'm going up to uni to donate blood and then maybe see a doctor for a check-up type thing. I'm also supposed to check on my anemones and see if theyr'e re-infecting, but I doubt it.