Monthly Archives: June 2011

Day Twenty-nine – Where There’s a Will…or Two…

Today we piled thirteen adults into a van and headed for Tulsa to tour the OSU BioMed research facility and meet with a couple of the researchers working there. They are married and alternately completed their undergraduate, masters, doctoral, and … Continue reading

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Day Twenty-eight – Statistics!

Having finished gathering my data (all of the male anoles were tired of me stressing them), it was time to sit down with a statistics program and see what the numbers could tell us.  I was enthralled!  I sat in … Continue reading

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Day Twenty-seven – Finally!

I spent most of the morning trying not to get out of bed…anybody else ever have that kind of Monday? Actually, I was waiting on a call from Michelle to see if she needed any assistance this today, and she … Continue reading

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Day Twenty-six – Not that Common

Today was spent helping a grad student.  Michelle is in charge of the lizards that I have been studying and she needed to do some tests herself.  I volunteered to help and figured I could learn some tips, since she … Continue reading

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Day Twenty-five – Hot Stuff!

Seems we arrived in the middle of a heat wave…I just figured it was normal Oklahoma hot!    It’s 10 p.m and it’s still 91 degrees outside.  There has not been a single day since we arrived when the high temperature … Continue reading

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Day Twenty-four – Feet Back on the Ground

I knew things were going too well this summer.  The data collection is finished for my research; I’ve gotten all my literature sources together; the rowdy kids on the dorm hall have gone home; I toured the vet school here … Continue reading

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Day Twenty-three – “Lit Review”…ugh!

I don’t know how many of you reading this blog have ever done any research, the results of which you would like to have published…but I salute you!  The research itself – in my case: observing the behavior and physiological … Continue reading

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Day Twenty-one – New Experiences

This entire summer seems to be full of new experiences.  I am really getting into this lizard stuff.  The green anoles I am working with are fun little critters…when they’re not biting you or you’re not chasing them up the … Continue reading

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Day Twenty – Still Here…

Okay…to those of you who have faithfully following my “daily” posts, I apologize.  I’m afraid I pulled a really lazy weekend, doing nothing but watching Eureka on Netflix, visiting the puppies at the library, and…well, that’s really about it.  I … Continue reading

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Day Sixteen – Crunching Numbers

I’ve finally collected enough data to begin to compile a spreadsheet with which to try to interpret it.  Now the fun begins…not.  That statistics course I took was an okay overall summary of means and medians and variance and standard … Continue reading

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