Wow, I'm really bad at this...

I really admire folks who keep up with their blogs! Seriously, when I get back to camp (usually at 10pm) all I want to do is eat dinner (but of course I have to cook it first) and crawl into bed! I COULD walk the 30 yards to the schoolhouse to use the dial-up internet and write about my day but that would mean giving up on sleep/watching a movie/preparing for teaching this fall/working on my manuscript from chapter 2 of my thesis/etc. It's hard enough to get up in the morning as it is!

Anyway, since my last post I have:

Spent nearly two weeks with my major professor (from here on out, SJD) during which time it (of course) rained. At least we got to go to town and stay in a motel! (Which translates into like THREE showers!)
Took a 15+ hour train ride to the Twin Cities where I met up with my family and spent an awesome 4th of July weekend with them! Then took another 15+ hour train ride back to MT. Let me tell you, the anticipation on the ride out made it go a lot faster...
Saw A Prairie Home Companion recorded live.
Listened to literally DOZENS of unabridged audiobooks. (I try and get two days out of each, spacing them out with downloaded NPR podcasts but I'm rapidly running out. I'm saving one for the drive back to IA but it's going to be close!)
Enjoyed listening to Baird's Sparrows and Sprague's Pipits singing from my yard. I could do without the constant Western Meadowlark/Horned Lark/Lark Bunting/Vesper Sparrow singing though.
Scratched a mosquito bite so much that the blood ran down my leg.
Personally found 75 Mountain Plover nests. With the 13 that SJD found I'm at 88 but it'll be REALLY hard to hit 90 in the next two weeks. Actually, I'd like to be home two weeks from today (if not sooner) so I have to get back out there and map prairie dog towns! Hatch little plover eggs! Hatch! (Or get eaten, either way I get to go home.)