Time Warp

First off, I would like everyone to notice that I have stayed true to my blog's name: Katie in Real Life. In real life I don't always have time to blog, and I have been busy busy busy the past month and a half! So that's my excuse for not writing anything yet, sorry! I finally have a little time to myself tonight because my boss went out of town and it's my night to watch the cat. He's still a pretty young kitten and never stops moving...ever! I've been putting off writing this first post because there is so much I want to put into it and I never had the time or energy to write it out. I've now decided to give you the short version and keep you up to date from there. Here goes...

I'm living in the small town of Lara (pronounced Lara, not Laura). In the small town of Lara there is a small wildlife preserve called Serendip Sanctuary. On Serendip there is a house from the 60s where I live with Elysa and Helen. We have a wood burning stove to keep warm and even hot water! The only missing amenity is laundry which we do in town (about a ten minute bike ride or less). There are kangaroos and emus wandering around and life is pretty good.

The project I'm working on is with Superb Fairywrens. The males are a beautiful bright blue, and they are just about the cutest birds I've seen. I spend my days following them around looking at their color bands and searching for nests. Nothing yet, but they should start breeding any day now! We've been using Iphones for data entry in the field and it's been awesome! I also got a kangaroo leather hat to wear in the field so I look super cool.

That's it for now, be sure to give me topic suggestions of things you guys want to hear about!
Katie