Aburrido

Simply a boring couple of days. Going kind of crazy from being around the lab/office so much. Sort of brought it on myself, but the situation of everybody being gone isn’t helping at all. Basically have to get myself around to asking people to help me with the project or trade help for help.

I’m unnecessarily putting it off, and it’s pissing me off. Karen says I “shouldn’t hesitate” asking other folks for a hand. As the week gets going again here, I’m definitely coming off the sourest weekend of my time down here. I also probably shouldn’t be wasting my time (which I now all of a sudden have tons of) and yours writing about all this in the blog.

Among other things I’m worried that Dr. Chazdon’s opinion of me or something I did changed after Tinny left. I definitely do not feel that I did anything wrong or bad at any point, but of course I also feel that conclusions could be drawn. Amanda has been quite critical of my project and relationship with Tinny over the last few weeks, and who knows how much of that has gotten back to the states.

Over the last 4-5 days I’ve sent Dr. Chazdon three emails, two based on data, one about fieldwork/Tinny. Over the same time, I’ve received one email in return where I was cc’d on her reply to Tinny’s email about leaving. For someone who has enthusiastically responded within 24 hours of any email I’ve sent in the last 20 months, it has me a touch worried.

At least the prospect of not finishing my fieldwork doesn’t exist and therefore I have one less thing to worry about. On top of all this and being cooped up here there’s been amazing weather the whole time. Seriously, not a drop of rain all day today, not to mention, a slight breeze (do recall that breezes are the best thing ever when measuring tree heights).

To avoid going completely nuts, I’m just going to go to the plot (LEP Primary) tomorrow, with the stupid justification of dropping the tripod off. Sorry for wasting everybody’s time, I guess this one’s more just for my record. Long week ahead, and only I can improve it, so it’s probably about time to do that. Gosh, maybe I’ll post tomorrow if something advantageous happens.

BP