Early mornings... argh

I've had a couple of early mornings so far this week as I try to get the oil changed and Cami's blood drawn before crowds form at the shop and Lab Corp. It's made me a bit more productive, except for the inadvertent nap I took yesterday in the comfy old chair in my office. Evil chair!

From Utah, Idaho, Oregon trip

I have four main tasks I want to bite into today before my first seminar in college teaching this afternoon (a zero credit course that will help me make a better teaching portfolio, I hope, for any eventual job I will apply for in the future). I've done the first, getting ready for gen bio in the coming week.



The other three take more mental effort and are thus harder to initiate: part III of my prelim proposal, refine my animal behavior presentation for a presentation next week to the ecology grad students, and rescore and reanalyze some data that I collected this summer. I don't expect to finish any of those, but if I can get most of the presentation and a sizable bit of the other two done, I will be very happy. Make it so!