The past 2 weeks have about wore me out. And I got lots more just like em! Every day is school, Twig, dinner, school work, help mark with his thesis, pass out. Wash rinse repeat. I am loving all of the intellectual stimulation but yowser this lady needs to slow down a little.
Mark's thesis will be turned in October 5, so that will be a load off of our shoulders. He will still have to do his presentation and defense but the bulk of the project is his paper. This also means I will finally get more selfish study time! Right now we have been struggling to find a balance of who spends time with Twig and who gets to do school work. We have made things work as best we can but it does get stressful at times. This week I also plan to put in quite a few hours editing and spit shining his paper. He is one lucky boy to have a live in editor!
I finally have a research project! I will be working with our new conservation biology professor on a reptile mapping project in Africa. No field work in my future since it will all be based on previously published literature and some work that has already been compiled by Conservation International. Which I totally don't mind since I have done a lot of field work already plus a home based project is best for me and the family right now . And for the record, I didn't take the project because I was all that interested in reptiles. Of course I love turtles and chameleons are just cool but I am doing this because I want to learn about population distributions and gain some valuable GIS skills. I am just in the beginning stages of this so expect to see more as things come together. Most likely this will be my masters thesis project, so I will be working on this for the next 18 months or so.
I have managed to make a little social time for myself in all of this. I met up with a couple of fantastic ladies in Copenhagen last week for brunch. Both of them are also pregnant and are due in a couple of weeks. Stephanie I met through blogging and Shea she met through the Copenhagen International Parents meet up group. I see lots of fun times in our future! Stephanie also braved a trip out to Viskinge with me on Monday and I showed her the wonders of Slagelse and Bilka. The visit was way too short but I expect there to be many more visits to the country side :)
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