I'm writing this from my desk, using my new laptop! I loove it so far, even though Vista is still a little awkward.
I spent a good part of today trying to figure out what I have to do for this silly grant proposal. I still have no idea. I arranged a meeting with SK, and I came out even more confused than when I went in! I guess I have to somehow piece together a genomic/proteomic proposal, but not really go into ticks...in fact, not even mention ticks. I guess it can piggyback off of one of our existing projects, either the microRNA/cDNA library, or RNAi of neuropeptides. So I have to read these other proposals...
Furthermore, I don't have any idea how to go about starting to write a proposal, period. SK and TM keep saying no problem, it'll be easy. Maybe for somebody who's done it before!
Finally, rather than deal with all that, I filled out some nice specialized mouthpart diagrams. It's really amazing how diverse insects are... piercing sucking mouthparts of cicadas, or siphons of butterflies, or sponge-like for houseflies. The labium is heavily modified in the cicadas and flies, while it's the maxilla in butterflies. neat.
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