Day 7

Today did not start off well.  I slept a little longer than I should have, so I was in a rush to get ready and catch my bus.  Because my mind was else where, I forgot to bring my laptop charger.  My laptop's battery has been on the decline, it used to be good for three hours without a charger, now I'm lucky if I get an hour and a half.  And of course, I did not realize this until my battery had almost ran out.  I was busy making labels, a tedious and sometimes unnecessary task.  Luckily, I emailed myself the word document the labels were saved on.  My computer shut itself off just as I went to go hook it up to the printer.  Hand-writing label crisis averted, I ended up printing off one the lab's Macs.  Then I got down to the really fun stuff, sorting flies.

I was excited to come in and sort today.  This was because I found the vials that my fly came in last summer.  By this, I mean that I had large glass test tubes (as opposed to the plastic vials with the screw on tops) that were backed to the metaphorical gills with flies.  This was how I found my fly last year, the tube it came in was crowded with a myriad of others, and I found it while sorting.  I knew I was trying to get lightening to strike twice, but I got lucky last summer, didn't I?

Sadly, the luck did not strike me today.  I barely got any of the genera I'm  interested, just a lot of the flies that we decided to avoid.  :-/ I went back to and tried to key out one of the flies with weird wing venation again.  I found a genus I didn't consider for it, but I want to run it by The Doc. I tried to key out the phthiriine/usiinine fly, so far no luck with that either.  Friday is still Geron day though.

Other than a less than successful day fly sorting, I went to the grocery store to pick up a bottle of D and a couple other assorted groceries.  I went back to my apartment, made some dinner (mac'n'cheese with broccoli, yum), and now I need to figure out what else needs to be done on a paper we're working on.  I have a meeting at State tomorrow with The Doc and one of the other co-authors (not sure if I named him previously, but I will call him Bug Man, because that's his job) to talk about the paper.  That should be interesting, hopefully.