So I’m in two excellent lecture/labs this semester, Eumycetozoans and Organismic Biology. And I’m very, very busy. But I love what I get to study. And I’ve accumulated some pictures of things from the lab(s) on my ipod (only thing with a camera I usually have handy) so I thought I’d share with tumbloo.
First up we have the pigeon Nicole and I are currently working on. He’s a little guy, but he’s been good to us. Real nice insides and an excellent dye (okay it’s latex) job in the circulatory system. We’d plucked him and skinned him ourselves (no we did not kill him) and his little broken leg made for some pretty graceful shots.
Next up we’ve got slime molds! Fuck yeah!
I decided to try and take pictures through the oculars of my microscopes, which is much more difficult than you’d think.
First up in the protostelid cateogry, we have Schizoplasmodiopsis pseudoendospora. To be honest I’m just proud that I remembered (and can say!) the name, so I like to type it out.
My current samples haven’t shown any dictyostelids, so I’ve been borrowing other peoples’ plates so I could masturbate to enjoy my favorite little guys.
I’m not 100% positive, but this one plate had P. pallidum, D. purpurem, and possibly (probably) D. aureo-stipes. But those are my guesses, so we’ll have to see what my professor thinks later next week.
A really interesting find, one of the girls sampling from the same plant community as I did, found a little (and by little I mean huge, compared to what she was looking for) guy we guessed is a feeding/preparing to fruit F. septica crawling (you could watch it move under a stereoscope, it was kickass). That’s right folks, (what we think is) the one and only dog vomit slime mold. On protostelid plates! Pretty neat.
So I keep playing Never Have I Ever and Big Wind Blows.
And realizing that I am no longer one of the innocent ones. I’m actually one of those people. Oh, how things have changed.
Big Wind Blows?
also, whore.
It’s like if Never Have I Ever fucked Musical Chairs.
Big Wind Blows is probs my new favorite game ever
except maybe not when it ends with everyone hugging me. That was strange. Amusing, but strange.
none of you people even know how pleased I am at this moment.
I am tired, but in a comfortable bed in a cold room on the internet with iron and wine playing in the background. My roommate has it going and she’s asleep right now but GOD I WAS SO EXCITED WHEN I CAME BACK TO ORGANIZE MY THINGS AND IRON AND WINE WAS PLAYING.
Tumblr, I have a (dashboard) confession(al):
Today, I am leaving for college. I know I’ll come back home (obviously), and it’s not like I’m dying or anything, but that whole flying the nest thing is still a little daunting. I’m not afraid, just sentimental. I’m gonna miss this place, and listing it as my permanent place of residence. I’ve lived in this house my whole life (18 years isn’t much, but it’s all I got right now). And my cat, Emily, got me through many of them. I am completely serious when I tell people that she was and still is one of my best friends. So today while I was packing, (of course she’s sitting all over my stuff), I shared some cold pizza with her and uh…well I cried. About my cat. And leaving her. She’s been through a lot in her cat life and everyone kind of picks on her. We’ve always been kind of a chubby duo and I’m really going to miss being there to give her a safe place to come to. I know this is all sappy tl;dr, but I fucking love my cat and I am going to miss her so goddamn much.
