mayflies

it's wednesday and the weekend's only two days away. standing between me and my weekend is my giant scientific paper on invertebrate biodiversity in longitudinal distributions in blue duck stream. i need to crank out five plus pages by friday morning, but of course here i am procrastinating [i've finished zero sentences so far].

but there is no other news other than class because for five days straight we're living, breathing, and eating stream ecology. but here are the weeks mid-adventures:

so of course its 18 degrees celsius out but i've developed this super human immunity to the cold in new zealand so i prefer to walk around in shorts and slippers. we went out to blue duck stream on monday and i'm just in jeans and slippers walking around the stream collecting my samples. come tuesday morning i've got billions of itching bites on my feet. i haven't put one and two together so for sampling on tuesday afternoon i decide to wear shorts and slippers to the stream. while at the stream i suddenly have a terrible urge to go so i head over to a bush and relieve myself (^_^). now it is wednesday and i have more incredible itchings-rashes on my feet, legs, thighs and buttocks. *SIGH* lesson learned - i'm developing a reaction to some native plant in the bush therefore gumboots and rain pants for me next field session.

leah and I spent about four hours last night measuring biodiversity in our stream samples. you can only count so much mayflies, stone flies, and oligochaetes until you go crazy. hundreds of limpets were fine. all the dead exoskeletons are not. marine > stream by a tenfold. we watched equilibrium while counting to pass the time.

my not so friends

okay. i lied there is news other than stream ecology: 1) i dislike rhubarb (sp?) 2) i really like bananas 3) my long lost journal was returned to me! 4) and i love daffodils

yeah. i got fat. -so what. (:P)

blue duck stream.