Mid-July... ack!

It's hard to believe, but it's already mid-July. I can hardly believe that the year is going by so quickly. I suppose that means it has been a busy one, and that's certainly true. The last couple of weeks have been no exception. The fish guys wrapped things up last week and headed out of town. Then Keith also headed out of town for a holiday. He and the family are headed to Broome in Western Australia. Should be a nice trip, though a lot of driving. One of the results of them leaving is that they needed someone to take care of their dogs. Steve and I are splitting the duty, and I got the first shift. They have one small white female Jack Russell terrier, and one large black male doberman. Good combination, actually. So for the first part of the week I lived in luxury with the dogs.

The next interesting thing that has happened this week is that my new roommate, Sarah, arrived. She's only been here a few days, but so far it looks like things will work out fine. She's a new postdoc here at the university, working on a project on marine crustaceans. Fortunately, her background is in lizard evolution, so she's all right.

The last (and probably least interesting to anyone else) is that I managed to submit two small, internal grant proposals to CDU this week. One is for a project on physiology of endurance in cane toads. The other is for a project on digestive physiology and metabolic rate in crocodiles and alligators. That should be a fun one, if it ever happens.