hello friends i am back from the marsh! i held a lot of birds and learned a lot about enduring classic rock and parasitic flatworms.

to wrap up the experience i would like to make a few shout outs to people and things that i feel defined this field season:

- ohio: polite midwestern birds and polite midwestern weather patterns, thank you so much. i don't even mind all of the biting flies and mosquitos i killed, we didn't have to use the johnboat a single day and i got to catch so many frogs. i still really fucking hate classic rock, though. jesus fucking christ do i hate the eagles.

- my immune system: no other allergies but a severe swimmer's itch reaction? what the fuck.

- cortizone 10: see above.

- frogs and snakes: luv u

- that field house girl who lent me some pasta sauce: i'm glad i kept my mouth shut while you talked about how much you hated reductionism (via inspired holistic views on conservation). you were very nice albeit slightly socially handicapped and i realized only after we left that you attended a jesuit college and that your holism is probably not solely an artifact of an ecological, rather than molecular, perspective. i would have hated to have unknowingly offended you.

- the fda: why did your anti-smoking campaigns fail to reach rural pennsylvania

- my phone: i was really rough on you these past few weeks, even after all of that internet you gave me. i'm sorry i forgot about you in my pants pocket when i waded through the deep end of the marsh because i was too lazy to walk back over to the other dike.

- milkshakes: vanilla is still best

- that old lady in the walgreens where i bought a tube of cortizone 10: i know you're old and you were probably just trying to be nice, but oh my god i can't believe i was actually basically told my skirt was too short. its 2013 and old ladies are still telling random strangers how they should dress. im a fucking molecular biologist with swimmer's itch i can dress however i want in your shitty little town.

- ardeidae: you guys rock. thanks for the great egret plume


would any of y'all like to see some marsh wren pictures? i have a few silly ones i took as studies for sketches (i'll be uploading the sketches for sure)



also i have a 3ds + new leaf now! my friend code is 3196-3739-2061 !! please send me yours if you want to be pals!