oh happy day. . . .

I am so thoroughly enjoying my Queen II CD. This is and always has been my favorite Queen CD, though certain songs on other albums rate higher. I do love them all, and will re-buy all of them this year, but I have most of my top picks now. I do need Jazz, and A Night at the Opera though. And as I put in my order on Amazon for those and 4 other Queen discs, I ought to get them this week. Yay! Four more albums and I will have them all.

I also got my plant systematics project data sent off, at least enough to run the next semester's plantings easier. There is a lot more I could do with it, and I may do some side projects to try to get some of the harder or less successful ones to work. I think some of the seed is maybe too old, but there are too many factors to be sure yet why any one of these plantings failed. I almost wish I could stay in Boulder and finish this project properly, with a second run and a properly controlled program, but I can't figure out how to make it into a proper graduate thesis project, and it seems silly to stay on for it otherwise. We don't have a horticulture program at CU, and there is very little in the project that could be a decent thesis question without a lot of tweaking. Getting mecanopsis to grow reliably and figuring out what has been preventing our seeds from germinating or starting properly might lead to a thesis, but there are not any professors here who could adequately support me on this project. The fact that I got my lovely schizanthus to grow is great for my ego, and meant that I did in fact have a better understanding of this plant than Tom, but also is not thesis-worthy. HMPFH! Maybe I can find a professor at CSU whose work can piggyback off of this stuff though. After all, I was working with 86 different species, so I ought to be able to find a decent project connected to at least one of them.

Tomorrow, though, is day 2 of Pinguicula Day, and as long as I make it into Boulder I get to thin and clean pinguicula all day, or for as much of it as the task requires. After that if I have more time the sundews may need attention again too. :)