End of the season

There haven't been any pairs for the past four nights. I was hoping to get about ten more pairs so I could test ten more males in my experiment, bringing my sample size up to twenty males. That would have been a good size, and enough to write a paper on and get published. (That was Mark's idea actually, to get more males, test them, and then write and publish a paper in my first year of grad school.) It was a good plan, but alas the frogs did not cooperate, and so it appears that I will have to wait until my second year of grad school to publish a paper.* I did not expect the frog season to die down so suddenly. We were still getting ten or so pairs a night last week, then there was one relatively cool day and they just stopped.

I have this week off from the lab. It's nice to be able to sleep in late, although I'm starting to feel guilty about sleeping until (or, ahem, past) noon. Next week the summer program I am doing through my fellowship begins. It's only one or two days a week until the end of August, but I have to do some research, write a paper about my research, and present my findings, so I'll definitely still be busy.

Also, I changed the banner picture again. Now it's a pond - much more appropriate to frog-related research. I'm not sure if the green corners match the green in the picture though. I'm not a perfectionist at all, no...

*However, I still have not written the paper about my brain lateralization research, like I have been meaning to do for, oh, the past six months. So I could still work on that (in my free time??) and get that published. I actually really want to, because it's pretty cool stuff.