Monday, September 10th, 2007

Time	Event
1:05a	animal rescue we are now fostering two needing-much-love animals here. 1) Hera, an eight month old kitty, very skittish and non-people-adjusted. 2) Darcie, an (I'm guessing) eight to ten year old female cocker spaniel. I should really post pictures, I guess. It is nice to have animals other than fish running around the house being friendly and playful. (These are very friendly animals, and so far I've had *zero* trouble with either - other than some minor toilet malfunctions, at least.) (Comment on this)
1:08a	calendar updates I spent a few minutes moving things from my mailbox onto the google calendar that I was using for departmental and SLIS-related events last spring. Anyone who's interested should be able to search at Google Calendar for "SLIS Doctoral Student Association" (or similar) and find it... In bulk, I calendared the events of SLIS DSA's "Friday Conversations", running this fall, as well as the talk dates that katy's lab sent out for their talks. RKCSI's dissertation support group is on there too; folks are meeting tomorrow to discuss meeting times for that, so I have nothing else there to calendar, yet. I like having things calendared, even if I don't make it to the events. Somehow it makes the world feel a little bit tidier, and I find that somewhat comforting... (Comment on this)
1:11a	tiger botia update the two tiger botia appear to have scared the bejeezus out of the nuisance snails in my smaller fishtank. I'm not seeing many of the mid-sized snails, anymore. We haven't managed to 'catch' the botia eating any snails, and we don't see broken shell pieces, either. It does seem, however, that there are fewer snails in the tank. The largest of the nuisance snails - the original, matriarch, snail - known derisively as "big momma" - has taken to burying herself quite deep in the gravel. I suspect that to be some sort of reaction to predation - she's never done that, before now. I wonder how many snails the two botia have eaten since introduction... it would be very interesting to know within an order of magnitude or so. But I simply just don't know.... (Comment on this)

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