Ocupado

Well, definitely felt busy for real today. Great feeling, speeds this tropical life up a little bit. Special shout-out to Danster today, Happy 18th bro! (we’re only a year part for like 11 weeks, not cool, jk) And onto my day, I guess.

As expected, I did wake up today, followed by breakfast (if you had a dollar for everytime I’ve recorded my awakening and breaking of the fast, you might have as many dollars as days I’ve been here) (if that last parentheses makes you stop reading the blog, I understand). So from now on I think early morning activities will become more of an assumption, rather than an integral item for my report.

Since Tinny’s still a student at Ben Plourde’s Cycling School (top notch) the four of us walked out to LEP; Tinny & I for measuring heights, Amanda & Debra to carry 20 bat poles out. Got bored walking, so figured out how fast I could walk along at a good clip. It came down to 1.67 m/s or like a mile in 16 minutes. Got to the plot and got my toys all set up.

Today served as both some data collection and I guess an “orientation” to my whole dealio out there for Tinny. Planned to be back for lunch so only got about 2 hours of work in. That led to packing up around 11:20, meeting Amanda & Debra back out at the Sendero LEP. Had a “fun” hike back…I’ll leave it at that.

Lunch = banging, dinner = banging, the ole GI tract = happy (conciseness). Started to get the yawnzies in early afternoon and that definitely called for the porch. Got some solid reading done in End of Poverty; I’m learning so many cool things about world economies. There was a pretty-well advertised movie presentation at 3:00pm today, as I mentioned yesterday.

After accounting for Tico time, Debra & I spent about 10 minutes locating the movie people, 10 minutes sitting, waiting, wishing (Re: Jack Johnson), 5 minutes talking to Amanda, and an instant deciding that iced coffee & futbol would be time better spent than the movie. Nice long sentence there. Obviously followed by iced coffee & futbol.

Amanda & Debra left to bat at the Juan Enriques secondary forest plot right next to Finca El Bejuco where Amanda and I batted on Sunday night. I returned to the lab and resumed my duties as expert instructor of bike riding to Tinny. Spent a half hour with that, then made pretty graphs (a favorite activity).

Again, dinner was good. Afterwards did an intense search for papers that I want/need to read. Found too many of course, a couple about modeling (like computer modeling) forest dynamics, which I might work into my U. Scholar proposal in the fall. I’m in to deep academically and research-ly (?), but I’m ok with that.

The office door was looking boring so I made a sign. It says, “Come Home Wanchope.” Fly sign, I’d say. Now didn’t that day seem busy? Tomorrow Tinny & I will run the same gamut of events, and I’ll be going mad making hypotheses before Dr. Chazdon gets in on Thursday. Solid week shaping up in the jungle.

Yes, we continue with San Jose pictures since I took lots of nice pictures and they shouldn’t go to waste and I haven’t touched the camera in a few days. Change will come soon, no worries. Getting late in the rain forest, time for bed soon, reading too. Peace.

BP