There is good news and there is bad news.  I'll start with the bad news.  I'm sorry to report that the moth colony is no more.  We no longer needed it for our experiments, so we had to dispose of all our beloved moths.  Unfortunately they could not go out in the high fashion that the moths do back on campus where they are thrown into the high speed ( Read more... )

Ok, first, I must tell you of the events of last friday--they are of complete unimportance to thee, but to me they were awesome. So, Rachel and I drove to East Lansing to the glorious campus of MSU. Once there, we met up with Lukasz (or Big Papa as we have coined him) so he could introduce us to the world of flying moths in a wind tunnel. The ( Read more... )

Oh what a weekend! Red-head Sarah came to visit me, and we went up to my Aunt Martha's girls only weekend shindig up near Hersey on the Muskegon River. We got there late Saturday night just in time for the camp fire and smores. Then we watched the Full Monty--c'mon, a girls weekend had to have something involving male strippers. Then on ( Read more... )

Eh, why not post it for the heck of it ( Read more... )

What an interesting morning I've had. We collected the second round of moths we put out in the orchards. I totally ruled at tying them up yesterday--Kevin and I were tied at how many we each got done. Oh and the excitement we had when we were collecting one of the moths this morning. I found a spider wrapped around one of our defenseless ( Read more... )

Mwuuuhahahahahahahaha. Our diabolical plan was an amazing success. Last night, we placed the virgin females upon the altars of branches to be given up to the gods and goddesses of science. Then this morning, we returned to collect them to see what we could see, and only a 1/3 of them had been eaten by spiders--a lot less then we anticipated. We ( Read more... )

Yay!!! Lauren is picking me up Saturday morning and we're going to spend the weekend along with her grandparents at one of her Dad's houses in Paw Paw. I'm so glad I finally get to see someone in the flesh from State, it's been 2 months--FAR too long. I don't care if we sit on the couch all weekend and do nothing, it'll be great just to finally ( Read more... )

I have-yes that's right folks-my very own Moth Colony. I will cherish and care for them like a true nerdy entomologist. Then, I will place the virgin females in the orchards, leave them out for one night, collect them the next morning, and dissect them to see if they've been mated with. Torture you say? My good sir/madam, it is only science. ( Read more... )

Oh! I almost forgot about the cutest part of my weekend. [It's too bad Marian doesn't read this, because she would appreciate it more than anyone else.] Saturday evening, my grandparents and I made a quick run to the grocery store to get a few things. I mentioned on the way there that the only thing I would like were some bananas. Of course, ( Read more... )

This weekend was yet another fairly good weekend. My grandparents picked me up Friday evening, and upon our arrival at their cabin we watched this fascinating piece on the MIT BlackJack Team. Basically, in the early 90's a bunch of nerds from MIT put together a legitimate organization (funded by the government and everything) to use card counting ( Read more... )