April Spring Easter Fall Vacation Vac

I leave in a hour for a five day field camp for my ecology class. Five days of looking at plant defenses to herbivory, collecting marine samples for someone's phd thesis and looking at fish communities for someone else. I cant help but get the feeling we are being used. People from previous years have spoke highly of this field camp, but they also spoke highly of the class. They said the camp made the class good. We will see. As i may have mentioned, the class is not good.

After the field camp, i have 4 or 5 days of traveling up the eastern coast and relaxing. this will happen, but in what form i am unsure. left it to some other people to plan. i am in charge of food.

then i am back for the second quarter, another invigorating 7 weeks of class. seems like a paltry amount of time, but it is established and accepted that a semester is 13 weeks of boredom.

On a positive note…two other students and I have started a pseudo ocean carbon flux class. It is not for credit and did only start the 6^th week of term, but it meets more than the other classes, is actually interesting, the prof actually knows something, and the info presented is actually worthwhile, as opposed to copied out of a textbook.

I spent the afternoon freeze grinding shit into homogenous powder for isotope analysis. No word on the status of our dassie application, but I did by chance bump into the head of the animal ethics committee. He said he hadn’t read my app yet, but was concerned. He assured me the committee would meet soon....as in sometime in the next month. They are all very busy people.

Back around the 10^th.