I really really really really need to deal with this. I just hope that the decision made by those involved will be the right one in the end.

Update: I started dealing with it and feel much better now. Still not sure what direction this is going to take, but at least it's going somewhere, and somewhere positive at that. : )

...but I do not approve, especially not now.

How could he not see how bad of an idea this is?
He can't even handle what he has in front of him. 
And since I can't tell him what to do, all I can do is sit and watch the castle crumble....

 Energy, why do you evade me ( Read more... )

 I finished my field work last Tuesday. Josh and I went out in the morning, worked in the heat until we couldn't think anymore, then went home to the bunkhouse to pack our crap. By the early afternoon we were back out in Winnfield sampling the last of the last, and magically, we were done. I was going to throw a party, but he still had work to do. ( Read more... )

I'm going through one of my reading phases again. It happens every once in awhile. I won't touch a book for months, often almost a year, and then suddenly it hits me; all I want to do is read. It doesn't matter what, really. Often it's intellectual fiction. Sometimes it's high fantasy or sci-fi. Sometimes it's contemporary autobiographies or near- ( Read more... )

This field season is really taking it out of me. I don't know what the difference between last year and this year is, but my body is just not having a good time. I just took a seven hour nap... that's right, seven hours. I got home from my morning out in the field, got as far as taking off my field clothes, and passed out on the couch. When I woke ( Read more... )

 The heat index is 110 degrees Fahrenheit here in Eastern Louisiana. I had to stop my survey once an hour today to walk back to the Jeep and sit in the air conditioning for a few minutes. It is officially dangerously hot out there. And I still have twenty-four survey days left. I seriously hope it cools down a little... for my own safety ( Read more... )

 I need a break ( Read more... )

When I walked across the stage for my graduation from the University of Mary Washington in 2006, I wasn't wearing anything under my robe except high heels.

Now you know!!

Things are going really well.  My days out in the field are going by smooth as butter. This year I'm not so worried about getting all the surveys done. I know I can fit them all in, even if I'm losing two days now due to a mild kidney infection (no worries- they put my on cipro, plus it's raining in northern LA right now anyway). Now I have awesome ( Read more... )