Updates of my life

Well, I finally have some time to write a blog post.  I'm currently in my lab at school waiting for my adviser to teach me how to use a stats program.  I had major issues with my data in the beginning of the year, most of my feathers did not correlate to blood information.  This meant I had to go rummaging through the back of the lab for more feathers, which I did find.  This also meant I had to scan 32 more feathers, which translates into 288 readings.  By the time some minor issues with the new data was worked out, my adviser was too busy to teach me how to do the stats program. But today, I will be analyzing my data. Please offer a sacrifice to the results gods that I have something.*

In other news, I will be returning to North Carolina, so my "Adventures in Interning" series will continue although the blog will still be "Touched by Science".  I will be identifying Malagasy bee flies, and probably will doing other things.  One of those other things is GOING TO PERU!  I have no idea what I'll be doing but it is Peru.  We could be digging around in dirt or breaking big rocks into small rocks, and I wouldn't care.  I'm so excited to go to and do research in the RAIN FOREST.  Hopefully I will have the internet there and can continue for the week and a half or so I am down there.  

That's about it with my life right now, I have so cool pictures from when I was attempting to dissect chick embryos that I might post later.  I'll try to update more often though, I go on spring break soon so I have the time then to do some more writing. 

*My adviser and I just tried to analyze my data.  For some reason instead of entering as F, the females all entered as 8.11. And I did not know how to import the data when he had my re-save my excel file as a weird text file.  WHY DOES THIS DATA SET HATE ME?!