jet-setter.

that's what my dad said when i told him my latest news.
i'm flying to vegas just for the day on tuesday with my boss to go to memory trends.
ha. oh man.
i'm really excited to go, and she is excited for me to go, which makes me even more excited.
at the same time, i'm really stressing about it because it's smack in the middle of my school week, but i won't miss any classes for it, only a day i should be spending in the lab.
so yeah. we'll see how it goes.

i gave my presentation on monday. it went really well. someone even commented that it was perfect. i am so relieved.
but something kind of shocking happened too. my friend maria works in dr. blomquist's lab... he is our main collaborator, so our presentations were very similar since they both dealt with bark beetles. and she happened to present right after me. well. my professor has been giving commentary after each presentation since we are the first ones... just to kind of help people get an idea of what to do/not to do. so she stands up after maria's presentation and says, "so which one did you like better?" [!!!] you should have seen my face. my mouth seriously dropped open. of course, most of us are friends in there, so none of them wanted to say anything. someone finally summed it up as this... "if you are a student, you will like maria's better. if you are a politician or a grandparent, you will like amy's better." maria included a bit of humor in her presentation... saying that we are trying to find the "anti-sexy solution" to prevent bark beetles from working together. mine was more serious, and i really focused on the problems and damage that bark beetles are causing. it was just so shocking at the time.

so anyway. that's about all the news i have for now. :]