fredag den 12. oktober 2012

T.I.A

Sometimes I forget what's so special about Africa. I landed at Malawi airport wilted for my colleague to arrive and then went with our pickup to exchange money, do some shopping and get dodge in to the hotel we are staying at for one night before we head north.

At the local mall I end up becoming very friendly with the guy who is exchanging my pounds to kwatcha. Basically he ripped me off and I got a better exchange rate than the banks would give me so we high fived and laughed a bit about the silly things in life..

I was, in my deranged mind hoping that the hotel we were staying at for one night would allow me a shower and a small breather before some more challenging camping. I mean I was paying $40 for a night.
I did get a shower... A cold one from the sink (the shower head was only for show) with a ladle I fashioned out of a bottle.. I also managed to get some electricity by taping my plugs at just the right angle, using some paper to keep the plug just a bit out of the socket. But the fact is that I am clean, and sitting with my iPad tucked into the corner of my room (thats where the wifi is, and only there) writing a blog entry..

Tomorrow we head to Mzuzu to meet you guide Ray Murphy, with 4 kg of oats, 10 cans of tuna, 8 cans of meatballs in gravy, 8 cans of sardines in tomato, 1 kg corn flour, and a very suspicious bag of apparently everlasting milk..






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Past and present.

With the PhD done I am now in the midst of a transition in my life. There are the manuscripts from the PhD thesis that need to be updated and prepared for publishing, there is also a new Post-doc at the Natural History Museum of London, several fieldtrips and the ICE conference that need to be planned. I feel almost content with the results achieved in the PhD. Currently one paper is published and within the next months I should have two more coming out. All the papers are on the morphology of some of the basalmost lepidopteran larvae and deal specifically with the evolution and ground plan characteristics. In the process of writing the thesis I have become quite intrigued with the locomotion of caterpillars and especially with the musculature that drive the locomotion. One of the more fascinating things is the information that lies in the muscular arrangements and the several different secondary locomotory structures that caterpillars have.

Keep an eye on the Reference section where I will update my publications and also have a link to my Mendeley profile so you can see my literature collection.