i forgot to blog.

i was too busy living.
i spent the last week burning the candle at both ends, working my butt off and then going out every night.
worth it. i guess.
it's the peak of the field season, and i'm monitoring all sorts of cool plants, on prairies, in bogs, on the dunes ... it's a good time. sometime life will slow down enough for me to post pictures.
i'm also doing quite a bit of research on Population Viability Analyses. for anyone else who took Population Ecology, NatRes 310, or ConsBio, NatRes 410, you know how much it hurts. it's somehow more fun when it's for real life, though. and without Evan Cooch flexing his pecs threateningly and telling you you're stupid and pain is good for you.
So, this week at night I ... played Irish music, went to a barbecue with my coworkers, went to see the Simpsons movie, played Irish music again, went to see Buddy Guy and Susan Tedeschi at an outdoor concert, got hit on at a bar by many men with large pectorals and a questionable amount of brains, went to Wrigleyville after a Cubs game to watch the drunken crowds (not as much fighting as I had hoped for), and finally went to bed at a reasonable hour on Saturday night, before going back to Nevin's for more Irish music and getting hit on by men of questionable intelligence (as well as some smart ones).
so anyway, that's the short version.