We've been hit by several "weather bombs" here - low pressure zones that bring heavy rain and wind. I Fed-Exed some samples to Santa Cruz yesterday and desperately wished I could pack myself off in the box with them.Although, I have to admit, it was nice working in the wildlife sanctuary last weekend because there was hardly anyone there. It was my last week of training and I got to spend most of the time feeding the kakas and going over plant species. I'm still terrible at plants (I'm a zoologist dammit), but I'll work my way to it eventually!
Teaching the Darwin workshop last week was a real joy, and I'm really looking forward to reading the students' papers. They're meant to take a quote from ol' Chaz and build it up into an essay. There are some fantastic ideas floating around, and some of the papers sound like they'll be really entertaining (particularly the feminist deconstruction of Darwin and the concept of sexual selection).
In spite of the weather life goes on, and I'm continuing to (slowly) furnish my new flat. The communications companies are all on island time, though, and I won't have internet for another week or so, but I'm finding weekends without email to be more bearable than I expected. It turns out that I can unplug. Go figure. And I do love watching the weather role down the valley.
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