Hello interwebz! right now this 'blog' looks pretty shitty. I fully intend on fixing that as soon as I get more familiar with 'blogspot' and all that jazz.

Right now I have quite a bit going on. My plants class keeps kicking my ass (a course that focuses on the evolutionary history of plants from their protist (algal) cousins to modern angiosperms)... I really want to understand everything but it all seems so superficial to me, like I'm just trying to memorize these facts to pass these exams and I'm not really internalizing it.



Very frustrating =\



On another note -- I'm really starting to get more involved in my contaminant hydrogeology course. My consultant team is working for Ononodaga County and we're trying to prove that the county is not responsible for salt contamination in the wells of the accusing citizens. Yesterday we had a breakthrough and decided that it is likely that the contamination is not from the county’s salt storage facility but is the result of deep upwelling of salt from natural formations in the north. I do not want to divulge too much in case the enemy consultant teams happen to find this… (although this is not likely at all!)



I find that rainy days like today are better for me in terms of being productive. It has been beautiful outside and it is so hard to stay in and work on equations of groundwater flow, or study when it is 70 degrees and sunny outside. At least the majority of the year the snow and rain force me to be a decent student. ;)



That’s all for now: Today I’ve been listening to the OST for ‘Where the Wild Things Are’. Which was written by Karen O and The Kids. It’s a pretty fun album, kinda makes me think of what Karen O would sound like if she started playing with the dudes from Animal Collective.