PhD week 52: One year in

Well. One year ago, I started my PhD. Since then I done some pretty cool things like attending a weevil taxonomy workshop in Arizona, going to the Southern Connections Congress in Dunedin, and collecting in Central Otago and the Two Thumb Range. I have also become better schooled in some of the key techniques of taxonomic research including sorting, dissecting, and slide-mounting. Overall, I've been enjoying it greatly.

How things go over the next 12 months will be in determining how close I will get to finishing on time. At this stage, everything is progressing nicely in the right direction. Long may it last.

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Read:
   Ferngren GB (Editor). 2002. Science and Religion. A Historical Introduction Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press
   Hughes P (Translator). 1937. Meditations for Lent from St. Thomas Aquinas. London: Sheed and Ward
    St Augustine, Betteson H (Translator). 2003. City of God. London: Penguin Classics
   Tolkien JRR. 1967. Smith of Wootton Major. London: HarperCollins
   Proverbs 17–19

Websites:
Breeding grounds of NZ Storm Petrel discovered
Super Rugby
Better View Desired—Binocular reviews

Listened:
Project 86—Numb

Twelve weeks of Star Trek:
Star Trek I: The motion picture