Still swimming...

I'm still working on my thesis writing. I know!!! I should be done by now!!! I really want to be!!! 

I have a committee chair now and a second committee member, but I don't have a third yet. Unfortunately, I'm finding that it is really difficult to communicate with my committee members long distance. 

I am on my 5th draft. I like to write for awhile, note where I need to make edits, save and start a new draft with the edits. I've been fighting with my stats for awhile, but I think I have things figured out. Maybe. I keep going back to the stats and running them again. I've watched a billion videos on logistic regression and how to interpret the results. I took stats and I grad TA-ed a software-based stats class, but I still feel like I don't know what I'm doing. 

This is my brain. I might have a sticky note problem. 

And my journal article binder. Yes, I printed all of them out. I need to be able to take notes directly on the article. I just can't read them on a computer.

Last week, I went through all the photos I took during data collection. I found insects I didn't see when I took the pictures. There were several photos of red-tailed flesh flies and its larva, Asian lady beetle larva, a black soldier fly and a leaf-eating beetle. I had to use my bug id skills, several books and the internet to figure out what they all were. My youngest son helped. 

Here's a crab spider eating flies in my bait bowl. 

I have tons of pictures of egg masses. Gross, but that's the evidence of colonization I needed. 

Fly on egg mass

Look at the neat rows of eggs.

Hidden in a vein.