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I'm back from Montana as of late yesterday evening (thanks to some plane delays, of course). I am absolutely delighted to be wearing a skirt and tank top instead of field pants and a grimy t-shirt, and I suspect the novelty won't wear off for a good few days, so I plan to revel in it. I spent most of my afternoon sorting through my 685 photos ( Read more... )

Well I lied.  I am sitting in the basement of the geology building at University of Montana Western, basking in the glory that is high speed internet.  It's magical  This is our last week of field camp, and we're going out with a bang, if you will, with two difficult mapping projects crammed into one week of hot weather.  I am currently very, very ( Read more... )

So I've spent my last three weeks hardcore geology-ing in Montana, and I have another two to go.  There are certainly two distinct aspects of this experience: the geology and the everything else.  From an academic standpoint, things are fun and different, and I'm at that cool point where I'm starting to feel confident in my abilities and ( Read more... )

Well, I just packed up my two duffle bags (small ones, at that) and my backpack. I leave bright and early tomorrow morning to go be a geologist (read: cowboy) in Montana for five weeks ( Read more... )

I've been home since late Friday night, feeling vaguely disoriented or lost like I used to when I got home from camp. It doesn't help that the end of finals was an absolute whirlwind, featuring 3- and 4-hour blocks of sleep at night just like fall training and First Days at the beginning of the year, plus running WOOLF leader training workshops ( Read more... )

The thick of it. Remembering what it feels like to exist largely on caffeine, to divide one's day into marathon stretches if time at the library punctuated by meal breaks. But several things feel different this time. For whatever reason I'm not as stressed as I usually am. Sure when I was actually taking my exam this morning I was in nervous ( Read more... )

Let it be known that I woke up for continental breakfast on a Sunday! I think I've now officially done that once every year ( Read more... )

Done with classes. About to enter that weird time warp: reading period, finals, packing, WOOLF & JA training, then summer! I'm actually dreading packing the most out of all of that, for the record ( Read more... )