Monday, 01 August 2011

Sunday, 01 May 2011

  • Google Translator / Wildlife Nerdiness

    When translating Portuguese text for a bird guide that I'm making, this was the translation I got:

    The common cuckoo, is common throughout mainland Portugal.
    Females usually return to breeding areas in previous years and tend to lay their eggs in the nests of host species that fed while creating. After completion of the spawning season (since it does not deal with nesting) in July, quickly returns to the sub-Saharan wintering areas. The cubs begin their first trip to Africa about one to two months after the adult birds and join in these wintering areas in the east of southern Africa.

    I just loved that this cuckoo has a spawning season and rears cubs. :)  Gotta get my jollies some how.




Friday, 01 April 2011

  • Do good

    I feel much better having written that last post.  Maybe it was the low point -- all the negative feelings about this semester coming to a head.  And now that I've released it, I'm free to do something about it.  I think i have an inherent need to do good, to feel as if i'm contributing something...either working on things that help me grow as a person, or helping others to do the same.  This whole semester it's been complain, complain, complain.  Whether or not my complaints were justified I think i just dwelled in that dark space for too long.

Wednesday, 30 March 2011

  • March Molting (AGAIN)

    I feel like I'm molting...AGAIN! 

    I'm having this strange itchy, crackly skin condition AGAIN.

    I say "AGAIN" because if you read my blog from March 2010 you can see that I was experiencing the same conditions as I am now!

    WHAT is going on?  Stress?  Lack of sleep?  Lack of personal achievement?  All work and no reward?  I don't know what's going on, but maybe when this all passes, I will morph into a beautiful butterfly.

Wednesday, 23 March 2011

  • Spring Break Goals

    Things get done when you make lists, right?  Things get done when you make goals public (so you are held accountable by other), right?  Okay....

    DONE
    • Schedule appt for scheduled car maintenance
    • Contact potential thesis committee members
    • Print out key lit for thesis
    • Meet 237 profs about term project

    TO DO:

    Errands:
    Take car in for scheduled maintenance
    Taxes
    FASFA

    Cairo
    Write draft Cairo paper sections
    Identify figure needs

    LA237 Term Project:
    Write paper outline
    Download 1-meter contours for bypass
    Merge 1-m contours for bypass
    Assess GIS layer inventory from M.Matella
    Look at focal species
    CNDDB search?
    RHJV?
    Download discharge data for two gages

    LA 237 curriculum:
    Re-read Steinitz
    Come up with potential teaching ideas/models
    meet 237 group at 1pm

    LA222:  Hydrology
    Call Napa and Sotoyome RCD for site

    LA205: Studio
    SPOONBILL WORK (LA205)
    meet 205 group on Friday?

    THESIS
    Read thesis papers
    Turn in assignment #3
    Do assignment #5

    SATURDAY
    potluck with xtina and company?


  • First Name: Tami
  • Gender: Female
  • Location: California, United States
  • About Me: I zap fish. I kick bugs. I wield shiney weaponry. ...otherwise my life is pretty normal.