http://www.beetlelady.com Cute beetles. Nice lady. Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:18:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A year of blogging sacrificed for the sake of a dissertation, now recapped in a single post. Here it goes... January was spent hunkering down at my desk in Michigan, trying get everything I needed to do on my dissertation before my move to California done. February brought even more ... http://www.beetlelady.com/?p=197 I'M BBBAACCCKKK and my absence was not in vein. On December 5th, I graduated and was hooded with my PhD.  Five years of graduate school and ten years since I returned to college full-time to pursue degrees in Entomology are suddenly behind me.  So now I am submitting my research ... http://www.beetlelady.com/?p=196 Hello there!  Yes, I know it has been many months since my last post.  Fear not, everything is going wonderfully in my life and I have not disappeared completely.  However, I am trying to finish my dissertation and, when I'm not doing that, I'd much rather be spending time with ... http://www.beetlelady.com/?p=195 I've taken a bit of a long absence from blogging. Fear not, I am still alive, healthy, and happy. I've been living in Dissertationland these days and when I am not busy with that, I am making books, or journaling, or trying not to fall off my bicycle ... http://www.beetlelady.com/?p=193 ...on the days after Thanksgiving is camping near a frozen waterfall.... with this as your view. Can you find our tent in this picture? (Hint: It is yellow) Now ask me what I am thankful for. I bet you already know my answer... http://www.beetlelady.com/?p=192 Beetlelady Books has a new website and a whole new look is thanks to the talented design work of Rakel at Ingero. *Throws confetti and jumps up and down* Yipeee!!! http://www.beetlelady.com/?p=191 Don't tell the other Xylosandrus species, but I think you are my favorite. I mean, look at you! What is there not to love about you? You know you are the only Xylosandrus species for which I have written a little song to sing while happily working away at ... http://www.beetlelady.com/?p=190 I'm so terribly late in posting this. Life swept me away again. I flew out to California at the beginning of the month to spend an extended weekend with Krishna. We stayed at the wonderful Goose & Turrets Bed & Breakfast in Montara, where we got to hike, bike, and ... http://www.beetlelady.com/?p=189 I had a grand time selling my books at Etsy @ the Market in Ann Arbor this weekend. You can't find a nicer group of people than the folks who sell their handmade goods on Etsy. Many thanks to Kate of Chicaloo Photography for organizing a great event! http://www.beetlelady.com/?p=188 I often find myself upset by the ways in which technology disconnects people from the amazing reality that surrounds them, but today I am feeling decidedly different. Since Krishna has been living so far away from me, technology has kept us close. Video chatting allows me to still see his smiling ... http://www.beetlelady.com/?p=187