Look at all those checkmarks.

YOLO.

Unlike in other products such as Microsoft Word, text wrapping (around objects such as tables, pictures, shapes, charts, and SmartArt graphics) is not available in PowerPoint 2013.

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT???????

WHYYYYYYYYYYYYY????

My mind just cannot comprehend this. I need to make a science poster look good. Like now. 

The Eastern seaboard is under siege by a billion-bug swarm of cicadas, €”an entomological Red Dawn. This aggression will not stand! But why simply goosh them underfoot when you can make these insectoid invaders into a meal?

Who wants to eat cicadas with me this summer? 

When life keeps you up all night, you might as well enjoy the sunrise.

Snuck out for a little field work this afternoon and almost literally stumbled upon these. Mother duck was not pleased. 

But hey, now I can add duck breeding habitat to things detention basins can do in my thesis. Woo hoo. 

Me today. 

Ok, it’s really because my thesis writing is just a mess today. And sunshine. 

whatshouldwecallgradschool:

credit: Adam

Yup. 

Books looking for a good home. 

Hello out there. I’m doing some spring cleaning and trying to un-stuff my life a bit. That includes clearing stuff off my bookshelf. 

Interested in any of these books? Message me. Otherwise they’re getting sold to Amazon or given to a library book sale depending on how lazy I’m feeling. 

Emma - Jane Austen

A book of William Blake poetry

The two princesses of bamarre - Gail Carlson Levine

Bury my hear at wounded knee - Dee Brown

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Stevenson

The Inheritors - William Golding

One Day in the life of ivan denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Taming of the Shrew - Shakespear

Golden Books Guides about fossils and whales

A Long Way from Chicago - Peck

The Comedy of Errors - Shakespeare

The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros

Green Goes with Everything (a book about “all natural” stuff)

Never Let me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho

The Metamorphosis and The Trial - Kafka

The Story of the Shipwrecked Sail - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy

Reading Lolita in Tehran  - Azar Nafisi

Del amor y otros demonios (in Spanish) - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

The Wordy Shipmates - Sarah Vowell

Mansfield Park - Jane Austen

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See

A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Shakespeare

The Raven and Other Poems - Edgar Allen Poe

The Chronicles of Chrestomanci Vol. I and II  - Diana Wynne Jones

Special find of the day.