Metas

Wow Memorial Day already, unfortunately a day for work here. Forcing myself to stay up and write this post, it’s almost 10. Got up pretty darn early for retiring quite late, about 6:15, which got me over to breakfast before every one else. Doodled around with my food until more people showed up.

Took a shower and got ready to go out. Got field lunches and bikes and all that good stuff. I think we (Amanda & I) hit the trail a little before 8am. Had a nice bike ride accompanied by great weather. When we arrived to the plot it had only been 11 hours since we left it after batting. Set up, hydrated, got started.

My goal for the two weeks ending Sunday is 150 trees, through yesterday I had done 68. With one more day lined up for data collection I set a goal of 50 for today. We worked until 1:30, roughly 5 hours with lunch and did a whopping 57 trees. That only leaves 25 for Thursday and hopefully we can go a little above and beyond.

I decided to be goal oriented today: 1) Measure 50 trees (check), 2) Sit on porch and read for 3 hours (2.5 down), and 3) Watch the NBA Conference Finals (check). Felt good to accomplish goals. Really tired…

So got through about 80-90 pages of Walk in the Woods and watched the NBA with the Clarks. The most unlikely people to watch sports with, the two researchers by whom I’ve read more papers than anyone else in my preparation to do research. Timmy Duncan is no match for the Jazz, that franchise ended when Karl “The Mailman” Malone retired.

Tomorrow I’ll get back to writing down all the things I want to write in the blog and therefore spicing it up a little. Well for tomorrow, I have a little pile of data processing and investigation to do, maybe some batting at night. Susan, another grad student from our lab arrives tomorrow. Sorry for breaking the streak of pictures. ¡Hasta!

BP