Juego

Walking by on the way back from dinner, the researcher’s lounge was empty so I came in and flipped on the old ESPN to watch my Yankees avoid the sweep tonight. Two straight doubles by Jeter and Matsui and we have runners on 2nd and 3rd for my boy A-Rod. Pretty big victory for this guy. Second of today…

Made some big strides with the data today and got to work in Access to fix a few things, really coming along nicely. Couldn’t be more boring to write about in the blog, but it made me happy nonetheless. All my tables are ready to go for some calculations and analyses. Man, Spanish TV is awesome, especially the commercials.

Not too too much to talk about today, again took it pretty slow and easy for the most part. Justifying all that with the whole, “I worked my butt off to have a 3.9 semester, I don’t have to work every second.” Got up to do some field practice which went pretty well, really humid morning due to lots of rain in the last couple of days. The river was noticeably higher than usual this evening.

There’s a lecture here tomorrow entitled something to the tune of “Latitudinal Gradients and Stress Physiology: A Physiological Explanation for the Jimmy Buffett Effect.” Y’know, changes in latitude, changes in attitude. Should be a good one, more on that tomorrow night.

Had rice and chicken and veggies for dinner tonight, found myself missing beans with my rice. You know how when you want those last few grains of rice and you have NO BEANS to scoop them up with? Probably the first time I’ve had that feeling. Had some lively conversation to go with it talking about NPR and frogs that navigate by the stars. The stuff you learn spending a summer with scientists…

So remember the whole Amanda’s odd trip to San José story…She sends me an email today that goes yada yada, I won’t be home till Monday morning. The best part was that she and her friend who drove from Panama are trying to find a way to ship his car back the States so he doesn’t have to drive. Sounded like a pretty formidable and costly task.

I’m making tomorrow my last official day of practice, and I’ll do a lot of it. On Tuesday, Amanda will come out with me to the Lindero El Peje plot to start measuring trees FOR REAL. I’m super excited to get started, because then I can forecast the conclusion. I’ve set a modest goal to get 150 trees done over the next 2 weeks because I won’t have an assistant most days. Then our assistants/interns will arrive and stuff will take off.

Got a pretty solid Sunday night lined up here with one and only one activity, watching the Yanks. Looking forward to a busy day tomorrow, the lecture, and data collection on Tuesday…good deal. The picture today comes from some abandoned house on the river I happened by the other day. It had some cool flowers out front…

Oh man, just proofreading but yea, Jeter’s two-run shot to deep left center, the announcer was flipping out—it’s gonna be a good night.

BP