Teléfono

Woke up to some really intense rain, which lasted from about 5 to 10am. Because of that got stifled from going out to practice measurements, but I should only need a couple more days to be ready to go with that. Got on the ole Skype today, took about forever to download on our wonderful wireless connection here, but it worked in the end. I’m sitting on the porch outside the old lab and a frog just bounced up, went around my leg, under the table and back off. Must have had frog rabies.

So yea, called the folks in the afternoon, followed my Yanks in another impressive loss at the Mets, but at least A-Rod went yard, that’s a good sign. Since I didn’t do any fieldwork today, got to stay clean, but still not as fun as being in the jungle. In turn, today’s post will be anecdotal at best.

So I’m sitting in the lab throwing together this data table I need with information from like 4 sources and it’s turning out to be a bloody mess when one of the German grad students walks in. He picks up a conversation with one of the other students that begins with “I got lost.” So he continues to retell the story to everyone that walks by and how he decided to follow the river and screamed help to some tubers who didn’t believe him and started laughing. It was a generally funny tale. Turned out he wasn’t that lost and was near the area where I saw monkeys the other day and that the trail ran parallel to the river.

Otherwise, had some solid down time today, which is good because I’ll probably be out in the field most days this week either working on my project or Amanda’s. Really excited to get this summer started by taking data, when I work all day and go to bed without being a step closer to being finished, it’s sort of defeating.

Going over my schedule for the summer, looks like I might be able to come home a week or so sooner than expected. Of course that depends on a lot of things, but it’d certainly be nice to have another week off before school starts. So anxious to get started….sitting around while everyone else is actively doing research isn’t so much fun. Mmmmm….more rain.

To continue being anecdotal, remember those times in like 3rd or 4th grade when you did a “unit” on the rain forest? You learned about how bad deforestation was, and what YOU could do to stop it. The three-toed sloth was the coolest animal ever…I would do anything to relive those moments right now and have a whole new perspective.

Due to my boring day, I can only provide you with a boring picture, but don’t forget “El Bosque Es Suyo, ¡Protéjalo!” Hopefully I can get up for some early morning practice tomorrow and spend the afternoon playing with MS Access and maybe ArcGIS. Until tomorrow…

BP