Ernesto

so meet Ernesto...
yes they say he will hit florida and then go inland... however one might recal that this is the exact same projection that was given to Katrina when she was in that area... just an interesting tidbit of info... so here at NASA we are on level 4 conditions... meaning gas up all govt vehicles and make note of anything that will have to be tied down in case we move to level 3 conditions and notify those in charge... now if we get to level 3-- only essential personnel are allowed on site... and since its a holiday coming up... they have decided to take this seriously... cause say it does come this way... everyone will be out of town prior to it hitting and things will need to be taken care of before they head out... anyways... doubt he will come this way... but just in case... find your waiders and your rain coat :)

so not so good....

well i am officially 10lbs heavier than amanda's "103lbs of girr"... not good... especially as how i am not trying to lose weight.... just a bit of depression getting ahold of me i guess... but honestly its not so surprising seeing as how i am never hungry and rarley get the urge to eat... :( I usually eat cause others are around, and i dont like being quesioned.... :( ............ :(

hum....

so apparently, according to my friend will i look like this chick...
mind you shes a porn star... so this is my porn star counterpart...

6:10

finnish filtering... just got to clean up... and then go home and go to bed!!!!!!!!!1 YAY my bed has been calling my name for a couple of hours now...

5:02am

so only 5 bottles left... depending on how turbid they are... it could be a while we will see... so its snack time, coke and milky way (since there is no dr pepper or m&m's :()... anyway you ever wonder what coke must have tasted like when it had cocain in it?? now i have no idea if cocain has a tast? but i am sure it altered the flavor somewhat.... i wonder if the lack of cocain in coke is the reason that i along with many others like some of the flavored cokes better (aka cherry coke)... maybe coke isnt really supposed to tast the way it does, it needs an extra something... now dont get me wrong i like plane old coke just find... but just wondering... hum... oh well... back to watching water drip.... later

2:50am

3 bottle completly filtered, three in the process...many more to go... this really sucks!!!!! I am so very bored, and it got cold in here all of a sudden :(... . OH and the vending machine is out of DR. PEPPER!!! There is still coke, so the world will not end... but still... i like to mix it up between the two... and no M&M's in the vending machine :(... not even penut ones :(... I really want M&M's right now, bastard vending machine fillers :(.... ARG...

Midnight...

well it is day two of filtering water.... and it appears to be going slower than it did last night :( that does not bode well... i am using a bigger filtering apparatus... so i can filter 6 things at a time vs the 4 i was using last night... however these samples are more turbid, and are taking longer to filter... so it doesnt really help much having the extra two... :( oh well... its midnight i have been doing this since 8:30 and have only finnished two bottles... have eleven to go :(.... oh i hope i can get out of here before 7:00... cause i have to come in tomorrow to weigh all the filters, they want all the data by monday. And I was hoping to do some of my stuff on saturday (which i havent touched because of this crap) and i was hoping to "take off" sunday to do laundry and clean my room and bathroom... i am running out of normal clothes or i am gonna have to start dressing up for work... which when dealing with mud doesnt work out so well... anyways... im bored :(... filtering water sucks, and what makes it worse is that this is not for my research, its CB's stuff... :(... if it was mine i would atleast feel a little bit better about it :(... oh well... ill probably be back on in a few hours.... later... hope you all are sleeping well

6:30am

roomate will be leaving for work right around now... still in lab... waiting for last 200 ml of this one sample to finnish... hopefully that will occur within the next twenty minutes, or well before 7:00... then half an hour drive home... 7:30... and bed... i should be here at noon... however i think i am gonna streatch it and get up at noon... oh tomorrow is gonna be a long! day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5:00am

got tired of waiting... stole more pumps and equipment from other labs... now have 4 pumps going vs two... just started 13, 14, 15, 16.... just gotta filter 1L of each... its still gonna be a while :(.... looks like i will be getting home, as mike is leaving for work... well atleast he wont beable to give me a hard time about being up before me... oh well

3:30am

bottle number 10 started... cokes = 3; Dr. pepper = 2 ... still not enough ; hum, my roomate mike usually leaves for work around 6:30... wonder if i will be home before he leaves... hum...

2am....

it is 2am and i am in the lab filtering water... i am on bottle number 6 out of 16.... yes thats right i am watching water filter... woo hoo this is an exciting night... and its far from over... oh and whats even better... i get to do this again tomorrow night... i hope i finish in time to get a few hours of sleep before i need to be back here at noon... i was here at 9am today.... i doubt i am going to get much sleep... i think i will have worked way over my 20 hours this week... oh well... thats the life of a grad student

long two weeks

It is 5:00 am, and I have been here since 3:00am, and I left school around 11:30pm last night, and it is a half hour drive from school to home.... you do the math....

Coring in the Pearl River Marsh

 

giant grasshopper

these things are so big, you can spot them on the road when driving and dodge/hit them on purpose -- whichever you prefer 

 

coring really is fun ;)

 

coring really is fun ;)

 

cutting off the extra

 

 

A little added weight can make the core go down better

 

im a monkey

 

camera points at me -- toung goes out -- cant help it its a reflex

 

CB in action, her first time coring ever

 

A hazard of taking pictures in the mud...

 

He is completely soaked, and its only from sweat - gotta love misssissippi/Louisiana heat

 

Core extraction

 

I am a little to short for this job

 

coring with people from UNO, in the Pearl River marsh

 

The good... the bad...

Good times -- I am going out into the field tomorrow :)... yay! to take my cores (its about time, i know!) and then friday I am going out on the Gulf to take samples for hypoxia (CB's Stuff)... so a day in the marsh and a day on the boat -- good times !! There will be muddy pictures to show for it :)

Bad times--- talked to john on the phone last night... not so good, was barley able to say much of anything, my heart sank as soon as I heard his voice, felt like i had been punched in the stomach and couldnt catch my breth, and then when he hung up ... i doubled over and cried uncontrolably for quite a while :(... so, needless to say last night was a horrible night, did not sleep much :(, and have been in a funk all day today... needless to say there will not be muddy pictures to show for this!

playing games with da kids

Sunny's (mike's girlfirend) cousins came to visit, so i taught them how to play mario party... they got really into it.

meet chris... :)

so the gulf is hot (and this week and the last couple weeks have been uberhot), there is tons of energy, enough to fuel a nice storm... if it goes below cuba -- likely hit texas/la/ms -- if it goes above cuba -- likely hit florida/alabama/ms ... this may just get interesting, we will see :) (yes jkirlin i am putting smiley faces after that :))

addition

so last night during "let kill time while i cant sleep" i watched this documentary on crystal meth -- apparently my lack of apetite and inability to sleep are the same side effects as crystal meth -- however i lack the high :(... oh well....