Well, dang! In the bad news column, just checked my emailbox and found this: "Dear Dr. Faulkes: "I regret to inform you that t...

Bugger. In the bad news column: My "letter of intent" for the Whitehall Foundation won't be continuing into a full grant pr...

Symposium poised for publication And in the good new column: The Animal Behavior Society symposium I've been organizing looks like it...

Manual labor For this I spent six years in grad school? I was planning on getting out of the office early, when one of my colleagues wal...

Classes done for the year I just gave my last lecture for the year! Huzzah! The work for this semester's teaching is not done, though...

I threatened I would do this. But seeing Gould's book on the general science section on the shelves of Barnes & Noble decided it fo...

Role reversal! Today's top in Edinburg, Texas: 9 degrees C. (Felt like 5 degrees C, according to the meteorologists.) Today's top...

This comic pretty much says it all. Otherwise, how are things? I'm in the last two weeks of classes. Luckily, by having my classes tau...

Policing Walked into my second lecture this morning, and was puzzled to see men in uniform with microphones attached to their shoulders. T...

Ad busting A few entries back, I mentioned that I had an ad appear in the middle of one of my classes. The ad was for a university diploma...

Consulting On Thursday and Friday, spent some time with a consultant. Some branch of the University has hired him to help people turn in m...

Equipment arrives! A delivery man finally rolled into my office with two packages from the U.K. Specifically, two packages from CED : my a...

Society for Neuroscience 2002, Part 5 Tuesday, 5 November: SFN 3 We have a late afternoon flight, which means I get to spend half a day ...

No, I'm not talking about equipment for tracking, I'm talking about tracking equipment that's coming to me. One of the last majo...

"And a little of this applied once a day will remove wrinkles virtually overnight!" Maybe that what's the goof in the cente...

Society for Neuroscience 2002, Part 4 Monday, 4 November: SFN 2 One of the fun things about a meeting like this is stumbling across litt...

Interruptions Spam. Every time you think it couldn't get more annoying, somebody proves you wrong. I was in the middle of a General B...

Society for Neuroscience 2002, Part 3 Sunday, 3 November: SFN 1 The main event gets cracking on Sunday in the Orlando Convention Center,...

Society for Neuroscience 2002 Report, Part 2 Saturday, 2 November: Hookey and ISN Executive The main item on my agenda, the ISN Executi...

Society for Neuroscience 2002 Report, Part 1 31 October: Travel. Air travel is fast and efficient... once you're in the air, that is...