* Sunday, May 16, 2004 *  
I have presented the Sloths of the Pleistocene of Washington research at the Undergraduate Research Symposium. Liz was thoroughly impressed with my presentation skills and with my abilities in pulling together information to create a coherent project. Others were impressed, too....

My TA for 213 tells me she can teach me about pollen. Bruce Nelson, my professor for Geochemistry, wants to help me out with the C-14 dating. He and Terry Swanson were both vying for my attention. Terry Swanson wants to help with something else; Quaternary deposits? Then my trophy-professor.... A guy interested in paleontology. I noticed I had to keep bugging this guy for something, he seemed like a good contact to make, and he kept slightly drifting away in case I wasn't ambitious enough. Turns out he's the department chair for Biology, as well as professor, as well as vertebrate paleontologist. DAMN he would make a good recommendation latter. Even one that says "this student is average on the intelligence scale but my god she's motivated, Signed, DEPT CHAIR OF BIOLOGY, TOM DANIELS." Sweet. Bruce Nelson would make an awesome letter-writer, too. I've been doing well in his class so far (though I'm starting to slip).

So that's the latest on the Search for Vertebrate Paleontology. Oh yeah, and Ringold is sorta moving forward. Tom and I are both to busy to bother with it, really. But they rejected his permit. If I were to write one, they would so give me a permit. Tom is a fool. He can't sell himself. Too bad, he's a really creative paleontologist.

I hope to go far. I was made for this job. Politics... Yummy.

Oh, and there's a new paleobiologist on the scene at the Geology Dept in UW. Vertebrate paleontologist. I should have met her, but I didn't. Bruce Nelson later told me I should have just skipped his lab if I was interested in seeing her talk. I should have. Oh well. More on that later.

All of this referenced at archteryx.blogspot.com.
posted by Andy* | 1:46 PM