Starting with two pics from a couple weeks ago and then from today, the yard is bursting into bloom. About three weeks early. The red alder catkins are so impressive, 4 -5 inches long!

The gallery images should link to larger versions.

Meanwhile, I have a portfolio to complete, including a take-home exam and some additional essays. *sigh*

Spring is here, but I am not ready!

The site of Richard III’s last battle has finally been located…

Bonnerichthys, a giant plankton eating fossil fish has been identified as a sort of piscine missing link

And finally, also in the long-lost category, a small European rodent has the same diet as many sauropods

Knowledge for knowledge’s sake is sometimes okay!

I am struggling to revise the BIG PAPER from last quarter which, as I re-read it, shows just how little I know and just how little I am changing!

I am supposed to revise the paper to incorporate new information and ideas from this quarter… and I find that there are so many redundancies that it’s hardly worth the effort. The important pieces have been said. What little CAN be added isn’t really necessary for the conclusions I drew and I don’t know that simply adding “so-and-so agrees, too” is useful. I don’t know that removing the details from before and replacing with new authors is useful, either. I refuse to put in theories that don’t reflect my personal beliefs (and there are many in the books we are reading).

All this, while I am trying to get caught up on the other tasks that languished in the last week while I had a migraine.

Writing is rapidly ceasing to be fulfilling. And thinking is out of the question.

Grad school stinks.

Spring can’t arrive soon enough for me.