I'm tired

I think that grad school is slowly killing me. I need to get out! I need to know what it's like to be outside in the daytime, to sleep in past 7am, to stare at a computer screen for less than 14 hours every day. What is that life like? I don't even remember... That's why I need to get graduated and move on out of here.

Right, sorry for all the complaining. But I am sick of trying to wade through 27 gigabytes of acoustic data, only to realise that I didn't calibrate the sound levels for changes in the pre-amp gain settings. Now I have to go back and write it all down by hand, and apply it to the data after the fact... Oh well. Such is life, eh?

Well, I think I'll try posting a video. This on cheers me up, it's starring Trooper, mainly. It was after we'd just played scrabble, and I lost (235 - 240). I have a bad habit of gambling on words that I have never heard of but suspected they might make their way into the scrabble dictionary.

Christmas Plans

Our plans are set, the flights are booked, we've told our families when we're arriving - we're going to both Fredericton, New Brunswick and Durham, North Carolina. I am beyond excited - I cannot wait! Two weeks of family time for the holidays. Trooper dog is coming to Fredericton with us, but we're putting him in boarding while we are in North Carolina - maybe next time we'll attempt to get him on a plane, but for now he'll have to make do at the Barking Dog. It's a very nice place with heated floors and fancy food and daily playtimes with the staff and baths and daycare where they play with other dogs. I doubt he's going to cry himself to sleep at night missing us... The Barking Dog is also where we take him for his obedience classes.

I have planned our vacation so that we are in Fredericton on a Saturday for the Farmer's Market - a crucial requirement for me. I need those veggie samosas and german sausages and breads and the delicious almond chocolate triangles...If you don't know what I'm talking about you can check out this link: Boyce Farmer's Market

Trooper

This is our puppy, the day I brought him out to Fort Foster to help with fieldwork. We spent the day out on the end of the pier with periodic breaks to go for walks on the beach or in the park or trails. When he wasn't sniffing at the people wandering out onto the pier, he spent the afternoon lying out in the warm october sun on a blanket that I'd brought along for him.

Finally, a new blog post...

It's been so long since I've posted anything. I'm pretty sure that no one even checks anymore, assuming of course that people checked it out before. John has been reminding me for weeks to put up a post. So here it is, finally. A lot has happened since my last post (which was on September 3rd by the way) - John returned from Africa mid September, I went to a conference in Vancouver at the end of September, we collected data for my thesis for two weeks in October, and then we got married on November 9th. :)