Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Where did all my time go?

Things are crazy hetic here in east Texas. Last weekend was the Texas Chapter of the Wildlife Society conference. It was the first conference I've ever been to and I must say I was pretty overwhelmed! I was super excited to see two fellow Auburn grads there and I started to feel a little more at ease at least knowing someone there. 

However, I was a stupid head and wore shoes that I didn't wear in yet the first night when I was standing for almost 4 hours. Both my heels and the side of my right foot ended up with horrible blisters. They were so bad I couldn't walk to the oyster bar to hang out with the other grad students. They were so bad I showed my Alabama heritage and walked outside the hotel barefoot to smoke. 

There were so many people there and so many presentations I didn't make it to. I probably should have networked much more than I did, but I just couldn't deal with the literal sea of people that was there. 

Although I didn't put myself out there like I would have liked, trip to Aransas NWR made up for it to me. We saw whooping cranes! An endangered species IN THE WILD! 



Now that the TCTWS conference is over I need to hammer down my proposal (I would like it done by the time I go full time into field season), write an abstract for my seminar on April fools day, write an abstract for a poster for the Big Thickett Conference that SFA is hosting, plus any other homework that may come up all in the next month!  Not to mention we are going home for spring break in 2 1/2 weeks! I can not wait! I desperately need a break. I feel like the I'm about to hit my don't give a fuck wall any minute now. But the car has been booked as of today! Yippie!

Although we have had warmer weather, that damned groundhog was right. We got snow today! However it didn't stick, now all that melty-ness is going to freeze tonight, and guess who has an 8am class tomorrow. This girl. Fun times I tell you. 

As I said last month, with all the crazy busy stuff I've got to do I may not blog as much as I would like, but I will do my best to do so eventually. Until next time, blessed be. 






Yellow-rumped warbler
Sunrise in Corpus Christi

Crested Caracara! I was too excited about seeing this bird. 

Tufted Titmouse right before the snow today.