Last Wednesday afternoon I drove up to Lawrence, KS. I stayed with my aunt there, and drove to Manhattan Thursday morning to meet with my boss. I stayed in the area until Saturday afternoon ( Read more... )

For some reason, when I try to reply to a comment, I get a screen with the colored vertical stripes on the left, and nothing else.

On Monday I e-mailed Dr. Blair, my potential employer at Kansas State, to let him know the EPA was in the process of making internship offers and I was waiting to hear from them. He responded that he wasn't actually sure if he could automatically hire me if I decided to accept his position; he'd thought he could, but had heard that the human ( Read more... )

When I finally got out of the hotel Tuesday afternoon, I walked down 23rd Street toward Constitution Avenue, to visit the monuments. On the George Washington University campus, I passed a Sikh-one of those guys who wears a turban, and follows a religion that’s an offshoot of Hinduism-with a money cup. I must admit, I passed him by, because I’d ( Read more... )

On the flight from Washington, D.C. to Chicago, I sat between two middle-aged men, and for most of the time didn’t chat with either of them. But I noticed that the man to my left was reading a book that seemed to be about Native American tribes and white settlers in some part of the West, and that interested me. Then he was looking at a map of ( Read more... )

I could see the Washington Monument from Reagan Airport (barf--hate that name for an airport). I was taken aback--I didn't realize it was so big ( Read more... )

As it turns out, my potential employer at Kansas State is in fact able to let me wait a little while to hear back from the EPA. So I’m home for most of the summer, and I’m continuing with an internship I had last January at the Ground Water Protection Council in Oklahoma City. I plan to work about 35-40 hours a week. But-people in Norman-since I ( Read more... )

I know this entry is excruciatingly long, but my car-shopping experience had so many little ironies and twists and turns that I can't resist recounting it.

Tuesday evening. I drove my dad’s car up to Diffee Motors in Oklahoma City, a used car dealership my mom had recommended. It was raining, and at one point the rain became so intense that I ( Read more... )

I came back home tonight. I had stuck around for a week in Amherst so that I could finish up the water-testing project with Nuestras Raices in Holyoke ( Read more... )

Research assistant for a University of Kansas at Manhattan group that works at the Konza Prairie Long Term Ecological Research site. So I'll be out of state, but not by too far! I'll be helping them investigate the effects of climate change, buffalo grazing, fertilizer addition, tree encroachment, etc. on grasslands. Tromping around in the ( Read more... )