Oh Poop

Hi again guys!

Today is day 2 of 2 of my days off this week. I am spending it researching for my paper that's due at the end of the month, wherein I will present it to a bunch of processualist badasses who will probably hate my noob methodology. We will see.

What am I thinking about for my project? I'm glad you asked. Here are my brainstorm notes so far:

Research paper ideas:

1. Scat analysis

a. Investigate the differences of ingested bones between carnivorous animals (coyotes vs fox, etc)

b. Investigate different taphonomical issues with these ingested bones (differences and similarities in digestive etching, gnawing, etc)

c. Investigate the rates at which ingested bones survive in the digestive tract

d. Compare the findings to a pre-established prey-choice model?

e. Profit???

I am also doing all of this in my dorm room, blasting some of that Viking Polka Metal (thanks Mike!) which is really popular with my roommates (not). Once I hit the idea wall hard, I'm taking the canoe back out on the lake and if I feel brave, I will snap some pics with my phone.

Life O' Reilly

I just realized that I have not talked about my living arrangements. I'm staying in a comfy cement floored dorm with seven other folk. We have running water, electricity, and spiders galore. Also scorpions, but I keep my belongings off the floor for the most part.

I also have massive zits slash bugbites all over my face, and I'm wondering if it's stress or spiderbites. Who knows. Anyhow, the living is easy around these parts.

Pot's right

Howdy y'all!

Today marks day one of the weekend, which is pretty neat considering all of the asscracking studying we've been at for forty hours this week.

I was feeling super demoralized after todays exam, but then I went swimming and bought so much beer that the people at walmart were sarcastically inquiring after my liquor needs. It turned out alright, though, in the end. I may not be super at the memorization, but as far as big pictures go, I've got it. I feel like there's a disconnect between me and the other students intellectually, but that's another tangent. Plus, we get along great.

Tonight was the fish fry night, and gee was it good. After dinner, we went fishin', caught nothin', and came back for beer and poker. I cleaned up and swigged a bunch of tequila with my professor, who seems to like me even though I suck at taxonomical strata.

Yesterday I caught a big olM fish that might win me the pirhana tropy prize. Pics above