STole this from Kat who stole it from Jackie
Yes I should be working right now. Whatever.



*FOODOLOGY*

What is your salad dressing of choice?
Balsamic vinaigrette

What is your favorite sit-down restaurant?
I think a local Thai place called Thai Basil, or Veggie Grill in Irvine. If I could afford it, Real Food Daily XD

What food could you eat every day for two weeks and not get sick of?
Tofu stir fry

What are your pizza toppings of choice?
Mushrooms, onion, pineapple, artichoke hearts

What do you like to put on your toast?
(vegan) butter

*TECHNOLOGY*

What is your wallpaper on your computer?
A screencap of a news anchor with Obama signs/crowds behind him holding up a vector image of obama and then signs saying "never gonna give you up" "never gonna let you down". Yes, obama supporters rickrolling CNN.

How many televisions are in your house?
3, actually 4.

What color cell phone do you have?
Black htc/Google G1!

*BIOLOGY*

Are you right-handed or left-handed?
Rightie

Have you ever had anything removed from your body?
Teeth, part of my slipped disk in my back...

What is the last heavy item you lifted?
Television last night while moving stuff into new bedroom.

Have you ever been knocked unconscious?
Not as far as I know


*BULLCRAPOLOGY*

If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die?
No

If you could change your name, what would you change it to?
I don't really want to change my name, I think Emily suits me, but I always wanted to change the spelling to Emilie.

Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for $1,000?
I'd ATTEMPT to


*DUMBOLOGY*

How many pairs of flip flops do you own?
At least 5... 8 if you count sandals, not just flip flops.

Last time you had a run-in with the cops?
Don't think I ever have...

What do you want to be when you grow up?
A paleontologist who goes around the world on fossil digs XD

Last person you talked to?
Tony my boss walked by and I said good morning

Last person you hugged?
Thomas this morning

FAVORITOLOGY*

Season?
FALL or maybe spring but probably fall*

Holiday?
Halloween

Day of the week?
Definitely Saturday

Month?
I don't think I have a favorite month.
Maybe November. Halloween just ended but there's still an air of that and decorations are still up for a day or two, and then there's thanksgiving, and the leaves are turning and it's getting cooler, and christmas decorations even start to pop up.

*CURRENTOLOGY*

Missing someone?
Kat!! I'm actually missing BOTH Kats I know...

Mood?
Sleepy, but sorta hyper cuz i'm drinking coffee here at work

Listening to?
Nothing. I'll turn on Pandora now

Watching?
Nothing

Worrying about?
Finding a roommate to move in in a WEEK!

*RANDOMOLOGY*

First place you went this morning?
The bathroom?

What can you not wait to do?
Go out to Thai food with Laney tonight, and then go see High School Musical 3 !!!! ahahahaha

What's the last movie you saw?
IRon Man with rifftracks

Do you smile often?
I think so, even though I hate my smile, smiling is infectious




*I LOVE FALL SO MUCH. Colorful trees, cool breezes (except here in socal where we're having the awful Santa Ana winds!! ugh), pumpkins, pies, I love fall! Also, APPLES! All the squash and apple varieties come back out. I love honeycrisp apples so much, and you can only find them in the fall!

I'm back home, in case it's not apparent

but i like to post random things here, like this:

Millions of cats (and dogs) are killed in animal shelters every year because there simply aren't enough good homes for them. Please do your part to help end animal homelessness by refusing to buy animals from pet stores and breeders. And always spay and neuter your animal companions. If you haven't already done so, please sign PETA's pledge to end animal homelessness today!

Battlestar Galactica's Tricia Helfer's
'Angel for Animals' PETA Ad

If you contribute to animal cruelty, Six will smash your head into a wall!

Last project

REally really quick post here.

Watching Phantom Menace, while writing our final report that's due at 6:00 pm today.

At 7:00, we're all being treated at a local diner called Sparky's Garage for dinner!!

We leave Montana tomorrow after turning in our keys to the dorm, any time from 8:00 to 9:00 am, whenever we can all get breakfasted and packed up and checked out of the dorms.
The schedule is to be home at 2pm on sunday!!!!!

The tornado alarm is going off. It's actually not for a tornado or anything, it goes off when they call the volunteer fire department to respond to accidents (Mary, the owner of Rookie's, the bar next door, told us all about it, when I was worried about a tornado the first time we heard it)

Last day in the field.

My field partner and I hiked up the tallest point of our field area today, it was at least 700 feet of gain, in maybe 45 minutes? it was SO HOT OUT, but it was worth the great view from the flat on top of a basalt flow looking out on the rest of the area. Thanks definitely go to my field partner for egging me on up the hill.
Here's the location in google maps:
View Larger Map

hope that html worked...
It got harder on the way up cuz we worked up to above 7100 feet, where everything is harder, especially breathing and hiking, haha... Then we had lunch up there, with our professor, then with two other classmates that joined us for the rest of lunch and for garnet-hunting.

Our hope was to find huge (golf ball sized) garnets in the gneiss unit on the way down the hillside of Timber Hill but we spent hours, and it was SO HOT, and we found nothing... we apparently walked right past them. Oh well!

Tomorrow's our last day in the area, and it's a half day, then we visit the reservoir to maybe swim in it and to look for garnets during the second half.

We're not going to be having a field exam, because we're so awesome, so the reports are due on friday evening, and we're coming home on SATURDAY MORNING probably!!!! Two days early!! So I should be home in california on sunday evening or afternoon, give or take - Cross your fingers!

ka-san

My mom is the best!

I got my final care package from her today, just a few essentials to get me through the rest of camp.
TONS of primal strips vegan jerky. Cactus jerky, which is revenge for the cactus poking me out in the field and making me bleed.
An aluminum water bottle, which is awesome because I hate my leaky camelbak, and I only have a 1-liter (32 oz) nalgene bottle that i've been using in the field, which runs out around 1-2pm because that's not enough water for the hot days out in the field. So yay for hydration!
AND two bags of my favorite brand of vegan cookies, Uncle Eddie's. Mmmm joy!

I found something really cool in the field today. I'll give you a hint, it blended in with the dead sagebrush branches. Guess! I'll post photos later.

Here's photos of giant garnets, in an archean/proterozoic (1.8 to 3.5 BILLION years old!) gneiss.

Our work on mapping on our fifth and final field area started this morning. It is gorgeous, but there are huge hills and mountains in it and it's just over four square miles. It's located on the Anderson Ranch, private land which is owned by a really old historic Montana family.

On a complete off-note, Doctor Who is awesome. that last episode... man!

Rodeo

We turned in our 3rd and 4th projects tonight at 4pm. Then we had dinner.

Nearly everybody in my class is going to the town rodeo tonight, but I am opting not to. My awesome roomie also doesn't want to go, so that's cool that I don't have to be the only one not going and hanging out alone in the dorms.
I told my field partner the only way I'd go to a rodeo is if I were protesting it.
Meh

I just heard a crash of thunder outside my dormitory room window and it filled me with glee. I love thunder and lightning!!

The past few days have been crap.
Our field area at Lime Gulch was enormous, had HUGE peaks to climb, which we did cuz we rock, and confusing metamorphic/igneous contacts to map.
The area we started today, with no break in between, is large, but (smaller) rolling hills, and packed with confusing metamorphic Archaean and Proterozoic gneisses and TONS of quartz and granite dikes.
The cool things about the area however, are that the metamorphic gneisses are 3.5 billion to 1.7 billion years old - so old, no life existed on earth except bacteria mats and mounds (stromatolites), and the mineralogy of the planet was such that basalts didn't exist yet - the material in the mantle was still too primitive (far too low in silica).
Also, there are HUGE FUCKING GARNETS in the gneisses/schists.
Pictures to come later.
Mostly, we just mapped a shitload of dikes today.
Anyway, it's cool to me...



Oh, AND my digital CAMERA broke today. No more photos of rocks for you guys. The zoom is jammed/broken off it won't even turn on it says "error", but at least I can get the pictures I took before it broke today off of it. I didn't do anything to it either, I took photos this morning of the mountains and then after I took photos of some garnets and put it back in my pocket, it broke. Did nothing! Gah. Oh well.


Tonight they're serving VEAL in the school cafeteria, so I'm not going. I think most people I talked to aren't going to eat it, but I wouldn't want to see anybody else in my school group eat it, it would alter my opinions of them, as strange as that sounds... and I just plain don't want to see it.

Bday at Yellowstone

Sorry it's been a few days - was in Yellowstone park, and then had no time in between getting back to the dorms and celebrating my birthday at the local bar and starting in a new field area today with a new field camp instructor to blog.  

I still don't really have time, cuz we just started a new area today, which was huge and had HUGE relief, and was complication metamorphic and igneous rocks not nice straight-line sedimentary rocks, and it was HOT out today, so I'm exhausted.

Yellowstone:

Camping was cold, beer was fun, seeing lots of elk and bison was cool too. Also, saturday afternoon I did yoga with a classmate in the meadow covered in rhyolite glass shards on the coast of the river right next to our campsite, while my professor and another classmate fly-fished in it. My hands = ow, during downward dog.

We lost one professor, and gained another. Not a total loss, these two teachers sharing field camp instruction this summer are my two favorite geology professors I've had, so it's a dream team to me, but it was still sad and I almost cried when I hugged him goodbye when we left the campsite.  In a small geology department like ours, you get very close and attached to your teachers and classmates. 

Oh yeah, and it was my birthday on father's day (and my twin's), and upon arrival back at our dorms I opened a box from my mom full of chocolate vegan cupcakes she sent for me and all my classmates. <3>

I have Doctor Who to catch up on now.  

Anyway, meanwhile, here's some photos from Yellowstone of things we saw.  Personally, I thought all the rhyolite was cooler than the geysers, but it's mandatory to see them, right? Pictures include silly photos with bison, Old Faithful, the Terraces,  and Artist Point.  Enjoy!

Hot springs

Today for our free day we slept in, ate breakfast, went back to sleep, then took a trip to the nearby Elkhorn Hot Springs.  It was about a 45 minute drive from our dorms at UM Western and was worth the $6 admission.  It was snowy outside the ~95º pool, up in the mountains in a national forest - a great contrast.  Afterward we went in the 105º sauna.  It was soooo relaxing - such a good way to spend a free day.

After dinner today we went out in the field and played frisbee for awhile. Lots of running around, felt good though, it was fun.

We're leaving at 10:00 am tomorrow for Yellowstone national park, where we'll camp for two nights, and where our second professor will join us for the second half of field camp :), and we'll lose our current professor :*(. Be back sunday night.  Remember, sunday is me and my twin sister's 22nd birthday and father's day! I hope I have cell reception on sunday to make phone calls.

Project #2 done

Our second project was just turned in at 6:00 pm! 

We worked on our day off on it all day, on the 8th, and we worked all day on it yesterday and today... 48 hours like, STRAIGHT.  It was tough.  

We're all going out for beeeers.

And, our field test was cancelled/is optional for tomorrow. So we get a real off day tomorrow. The last off day on the 8th was actually used as a work day, so we got the test day in the field cancelled as a reward for working so hard. 

Friday morning we leave for Yellowstone for a field trip within this giant field trip.

snow day

I totally forgot to mention this yesterday!

During our field day on the 7th, it snowed!  It was awesome!  The entire day was filled with removing beanies and jackets and replacing them with caps/visors and just wearing light sweatshirts, because it kept getting hot and sunny and then very cold and threatening, and then it finally snowed for about a half-hour, almost tiny little hail-balls.

We could see the curtain of snow moving over a valley towards us right before it hit us, and then we radio-ed to others on a ridge next to us that it was snowing, and they were like "not here - oh, yes it is!" when the wave hit them.

It instantly improved my mood. I love snow.

It was the first snow ever for a member of our field camp group who is from Thailand.

It snowed again for a few minutes around 1 or 2pm, and other than that it was on and off chilly and warm.  Montana is a land of strange unpredictable weather.

Rat's Nest

Yesterday me and my field partner visited "the rat's nest", a small but very complicated area of our field location near Block Mountain, MT, which all of us have been avoiding.  It sucked and was really perplexing, and we have to revisit it tomorrow.  

But for now, today is our day off. After we left the field at 5:30 yesterday we stopped at the "taco bus" a local authentic mexican place, where I actually found a vegan dinner for $3 (everybody else's were $7 or $8, and they got second plates because that was just for three meat tacos).  It was just simple nachos with meatless beans and all the avocado they had left, and a delicious spicy salsa.  

Then last night we went out for beers at Rookies, that was a lot of fun.  I slept in til 10:00am, but my roommate got up at 7:00~ish for breakfast in the dorm caf, and she got me a banana like I asked, which made my breakfast.

Then we went out to errands. Then came back and napped.

Currently watching V for Vendetta ($10 DVDs were on sale buy one get one free at the local Alco) while working on a stereonet for the anticline in the field area, and a topographic profile for a cross section through a hypothetical potential well location in the area to look for hydrocarbons.

I really love this movie.  Stephen Fry!  Natalie Portman!  V!

I also got to download and watch friday's Battlestar Galactica episode, which was totally great and made me cry.  Best show ever!

and jenny just sat on a stereonet tack hahaha

I am enjoying this day off.  

I got the two huge care packages from my mom in the mail today!! So many vegan goodies - two packs of vegan cookies, indian food in the foil packages, ready to eat microwavable rices, almonds, soy nuts, snapea crisps, my favorite salad dressing (tuscan italian) from Trader Joe's, and primal strips veggie jerky from whole foods, and dehydrated soup cups ! Very happy with those :)

Today was a hard day in the field. But I'm really glad it never rained on us, despite the fact it was 60% to 80% chance of precipitation. I was totally jumpy and anxious about rattlesnakes all day, but it was too cold for them today, which normally I'd hate (the cold), but if it keeps the venomous creatures away, I'm all for it.

The picture up there from today, is of a different creature we saw. He didn't run or even budge, and we got really close to him, so we think he was probably starving and near death. I so wish I could've taken him home.
Poor bambi.


I find out how I did on our first project that was due last week in a few minutes.

I really wish I could watch BSG tonight. I'll have to wait awhile for a download.

Folds confuse me.

Another long day of hiking and mapping in contacts, folds, and faults in the field today.  It was the opposite of rainy today - it got really hot and sunny, which brings out the snakes.  Saw two rattlesnakes this afternoon, my field partner almost stepped on and got bit by a huge one, could've easily gotten her from the few feet away she was.  It was scary.   We saw a little baby racer snake this morning.  Surprised the crap out of me, but it was cute and not that scary.

I keep having problems with my walkie talkie (we all have one in the field for safety and communication) such as it turns itself on without pressing the button and the button sticks, you can't even feel the button push down (it's broken) so people can hear me and my friend chatting for 10 minutes before I realize it's on.  All my classmates got to hear a conversation between us about being bit by a rattlesnake on the crotch whilst using the facilities in the field, but in much less PG words... 

It was bad.  So I was tired of this happening a billion times every day, so I took out the batteries and shoved the cheap piece of crap into the depths of my field backpack.

I had a baked potato with my usual salad for dinner tonight.  Yum!  I brought it back to my dorm room and ate it with vegan butter I bought at Safeway.  I always crave something more than vegetables with french dressing for dinner after burning at least 2500 calories out in the field.

First day at Block Mountain

My ankles hurt bad, especially my right. Lotsa hiking today, and it was on mud and wet slippery rocks, in the cold rain. I did stay dry, except my toes, thanks to the marmot waterproof jacket I got for this trip at REI before I left.  We hiked at least 5.5 miles, and me and my field partner had to hike back about a mile in less than 15 minutes over huge hills and gullies to get to the cars on time at the end of the field day. So yeah, my ankles hurt, my legs too.  I have windburn on my cheeks.

The ink on my topo map of the area which we were drawing in contacts and strikes and dips on all day bled from the rain and it really pissed me off.  It finally stopped pissing on us at like 2:00 pm, which really improved my work and my mood drastically.

Going to bed soon - I was out of whack and tired and gloomy today, maybe more sleep will help.

Can't wait for that package from my mom!

Dreary day

It was really tough to get up this morning.  We normally go to the cafeteria for breakfast at 7:00 am sharp, because we have to be packed and piled into the department trucks at 8:00 am.  This morning after the alarm went off at 6:40 am we went back to sleep for 10 or 15 minutes because it seemed so early, judging from the light from the window, because it was so dark from the overcast and rainy weather.

Gonna finish sipping my coffee (non-dairy creamer!) and get on my hiking boots, and listen to Death Cab for awhile on my roommate's ipod stereo before we have to leave.

PS: I am really excited to receive two packages my mom sent me full of vegan goodies. Thanks mom!

First day off

Oh my god, why does there have to be drama, among two of my friends here?? 

We're geologists, at field camp of all places this should not be happening!! I know we're girls, but we should be better than that.

Anyway.

We partied hard last night after we all turned in our project, we all stumbled home from the 2nd bar we hopped to at 2:30 am. I got four free beers, who knows who bought them.  My professor bought me one of them, but the others were from pitchers that other people bought.  Who cares, free booze!

I woke up at 10:30 or so feelin' fine, I showered, and then we all went into town around 11:30 to spend our day off. First we went to a little diner for lunch (I had already eaten a PB & J sandwich, but my roommate and I shared sweet potato fries). Then we took the department vehicle into town and parked.  I walked to the natural health food store first, in search for vegan jerky.  Failure, but, they do have nuts, dried fruit, soy and rice ice cream, and lots of vegan and gluten free cookies and cereal.  I refrained from partaking, I'll get a care package from my mom hopefully soon.

Me and my roommate went to the CD/record shop and she got stuff and we got a Paramore poster for our room for free off the wall, cuz the guy working there was totally awesome.

Then I got some nice field shirts, sweater, and a sports bra at the Patagonia outlet, all totally discounted.  Talked to the Patagonia cashier girls about where we were from and why we were here (rocks!) and where we are staying, and one of the girls who is a vegetarian about how difficult that is in Montana. 

 There are more cows here than people per square mile, she said, and it's the largest beef producing state.  All the cows we pass in pastures on the way to our field areas are beef (angus) cows, I found out. Poor cows :(  

Laundry time! I love free day...

I got cactied in the field today. the back of my calf :( owwies. now it's bumpy and scabby but it was needley and red and puffy earlier this morning.

Just spent the last 10 hours (11 am to 9pm) working on a stratigraphic column (it ended up being 30 inches long!!!) and a geologic cross section through the Frying Pan Gulch area... everybody else was too.  Now we're going out drinking.

My brain is soooo fried and my arm hurts from erasing. and my back hurts from hunching over the desk.  

By the way.

My address here is:

My name 

c/o Cal State University Fullerton

750 Cornell

Dillon, MT 59725

send me stuff!

My final semester grades finally came in!!

Yay I can graduate (after I pass this field camp!)!!!

Art 106A Beginning Ceramics 3 units: A

Geology 360 Structural Geology 4 units: A

Geology 456 Geophysics 3 units: A-

History 110A World Civilization to 16th Century 3 units: C

Kinesiology 114A Weight training 1 unit: A

Physics 225L Fundamental Physics Lab 1 unit: C

hurrah!

First day over

Don't have much time to blog today.

It was our field day in the field.  Went well, we are all tired and sore though.  First day of lots of hiking will do that to ya, that coupled with having to measure a ~1500 foot stratigraphic section with jacob's staves (we finish that tomorrow morning, then we make a geologic map of the area tomorrow afternoon).  

So, HERE are some photos of the journey so far - of our pit stops on the way from socal to Montana and our first day in the field.  Let me know if the album does not work!

Oh and I would like to mention what the food situation is like here.  There is a dorm cafeteria buffet at breakfaster and dinner, and a vegetarian option is always offered, it would appear. However, nothing vegan has yet been seen on the menu, aside from the salad bar, which I am at least thankful for.  So I've had a salad of iceberg (bleh) lettuce, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, white mushrooms, with french dressing, the past two dinners.  I just supplemented that with a cocoa crispies cereal and rice dream snack.  So I'm not starving, but I'm gonna get real tired of salad soon.

They offer a sandwich bar and provide granola bars and nutri-grain bars, fruit, and applesauce and chips and soda, to pack sack lunches for the day to take out into the field.  All the breads they offer, by some local Montana bakery, have whey (cultured milk) in them.  Thankfully, as any other vegan will know, this is a common (pointless) bread additive even in some healthy, organic, whole-wheat breads, so I had already bought my own vegan wheat loaf from the local Safeway.

and I used the peanut butter and jelly bar to make my lunch sammich (the Lunch bar offers only deli meat and cheese).

However, there is a light on the horizon.  I found a natural foods store in town (it's biking distance, but I have no bike here, haha) called Good Life if I remember correctly, but its hours are such that I may not be able to visit it for awhile, maybe until I have a free day.  But the organic vegan stuff in the window seemed promising!  I'm crossing my fingers they have primal strips or jerquee.  

Until I write again, over and out

Geovegan 

(Emily)

At the dorms in Dillon (University of Montana Western). Not too pleased.

I got the internet to work on my macbook, but both of our double room's two ethernet jacks are on the same side of it, behind my desk.  My roomie can't get hers to work on her XP laptop despite the written directions are given for XP and Vista and not Mac OS X.  

Pissed off that Adium, iChat, and torrents are firewalled. Stupid dorm!!!  This is exactly why I moved into an apartment, to use in internet like an ADULT. 

Also this town has a Safeway and a pizza hut.  

On a happier note, driving through Utah was probably the prettiest stuff I've ever seen.

She's going to jack the jack my mac's using now to see if one of the two jacks is broken.

Also, for my iPhone I have some weird network called Extended USA - not my usual T-Mobile. I wonder if I am roaming?

Ps: Turns out there are two ethernet ports for every double dorm room and everybody but us in the entirety of field camp has a double room to themselves, but we got the one double that has only ONE working ethernet port, while the people living alone have ports to spare.  So we need to find an ethernet splitter.  Ghetto, UM Western. ghetto.

From Zion

We just finished dinner our second night camping at the Zion River Resort, just outside of Zion Canyon National Park.  I've never been here before, aside from sleeping through a family RV roadtrip through Utah.  I'm currently enjoying a cold Wasatch "Apricot Hefeweizen". 

Don't have much battery power on my Macbook (it drained itself from 100% down to 55% just by sitting around for ~48 hours) so I'll try and make this concise.

Yesterday (Tuesday) morning we left campus around 7:30 am, and made it to this campsite by about 6pm.  We had taken a detour to have a late lunch at Red Rock Canyon, which was prety cool - although having to drive through the Las Vegas traffic was annoying. After setting up camp just outside Zion, we set up to make dinner.

We had dinner/breakfast assignments, and I was in the first group to cook last night, and it was fajita night.  I quickly volunteered to do the onions and bell peppers :P  It was a great vegan dinner.  The other people made chicken, and we had grilled flour tortillas, and tapatillo sauce to top my vegan fajita burritos off.  

I got no sleep last night - I was too cold, even though it's quite mild and warm here even all night, i just get freezing cold when I sleep.  Tonight I'll wear an extra layer, and put a fleece jacket over my sleeping bag's face-hole.   Also, I have trouble sleeping in general camping, it makes me nervous, for at least the first night.  

So I woke up at 5:00 am freezing to death (after eventually getting to sleep at 12:00 midnight with the help of my iphone's ipod), and then again at 6:00 am when other people got up and i heard chatter and laughing, so I just said fuck it and got out of bed at 6:30 and after washing my face and inspecting my huge under-eye circles, I helped make the oatmeal with brown sugar at breakfast time, and we all packed our bag lunches for the day (pb&j yummmm).  We set out towards Zion Canyon by 8:30 am, for our first free day.  We got to do whatever we wanted, however much I wanted to see angel's landing, I knew I couldn't do it because of my fear of heights/falling, so I went on the riverside walk, the weeping rock, the archaeology trail, and the lower emerald pool.  I was satisfied, and plenty tired out.  I had an ice cream cone :/  

We all met back at the vans by 3:15, when we were supposed to be there at 4:00, and we played frisbee for awhile in the parking lot which was fun ("Car!!!" then "...Game on!!"), and our professor showed up at 4:00, turns out he had been having a pint at a little cafe without us, when we were all there at the cars early waiting for him!! So we all went and had a couple pitchers before going back to camp.  

We made pasta and salad tonight. Well not me, the cooking group that was scheduled tonight.  They were very concerned with me and constantly asking for input as to what I felt was sufficient precautions for my vegetarian pasta sauce (as opposed to their sausage meatballs and ground beef sauce).  Very nice of them :)  However our professor bought no vegan salad dressings (dammit, I should've thought of that and packed my favorite Trader Joe's dressing, the tuscan italian!) so I had thousand island :x

I suppose I should have known this trip would make me about 80% vegan 20% vegetarian. I mean, I'm not gonna break down and eat some chicken or steak or anything, but it's just so hard to maintain 100% veganism in this situation.  I'll try harder.  At least I always have PB&J, and the wheat bread (Orowheat) our field camp professor packed is at least milk-free! Yay!

Well my macbook is pretty low on power so I'll turn it off now.  Tomorrow, we head out through Zion, towards Salt Lake City, stopping in Bryce Canyon (never been there either, so excited!), and camping just north/past SLC.  

Anyway.

Hoping I can sleep better tonight, 

Geovegan

The beginning (at the end)

An intro: 

I am a vegan (1.5 years and counting) and a geologist (3 years and counting, or t minus a few months, depending on how you look at it).

I will be attending a required five-week Field Camp course, beginning one week after finals week is over and commencement occurs, in and around Dillon, Montana.

This blog will be the journal of my adventures.  Based on my knowledge of the facilities available to a person such as I at the dorms in Montana, I plan a weigh-in both pre- and post- field camp, which should show some impressive results. 

It is currently finals week, and I'm hard at work on study guides, cheat sheets, and a take-home Structural Geology Lab Test.

But apparently not hard enough to stop me from creating a new blog. 

Don't even get me started on my thesis. (It's on Late Triassic brachiopod-filled rocks from Central Nevada)