Countdown

I'm now 2 weeks away from leaving MD, and I'm extremely excited. It still seems unreal, possibly because I'll be counting turtles up until the end; but I'm glad that it's here. I'm excited to see my friends & family in Philly again. I'm excited to be working towards grad school and I'm looking forward to having a community that I can engage in and that I can settle in for more than 5 months. I'm looking forward to living with people again - I've never been good at living with people, but living alone has shown me how much I really do need to share a home with others. I'm sad to leave my few friends that I have here...but that's still a couple weeks away, I don't have to deal with that yet. It would've been nice to have been more involved in the community here. Hopefully when I'm in school and when I'm a teacher I'll be able to do so. Oh yeah, and I'm looking forward to hugs. Other than when my parents visited me, I think the last one I got was...July 29th? And visiting with y'all & catching up, at least those in the Philly area.

Other than that, not much is going on. This month-and-a-half long drought has prevented the turtles from hatching (the ground is too hard for them to dig out), so work has been boring. Other than that day a few weeks ago with the camera (previous post). There's tons of bald eagles all over the island now though, which is kinda cool. And caterpillars (a type of "woolybear", the salt marsh caterpillar, Estigmene acrea). And mutated crickets from the mosquito spray. All interesting to see, although I fritter most of my day away sitting on the toolchest in the shed inventing things to do (1.5 hrs of work to be done every day. On the island for 3-12 hrs. Hence lots of frittering).

Anyway, 'tis all, 'tis all. Philly soon! Oh, wonderful!