Yeah, I'm pretty exhausted and crabby. I emailed a prof asking for feedback on an abstract on Friday and he hasn't replied and the deadline is 9 am tomorrow morning. I want to turn it in NOW. But I can't. So I'm going to wake up at 8 am tomorrow (grrr) and if he still hasn't replied then I'm just going to submit it. So. Annoyed. I KNOW that it's the natural order of things that professors can tell a student to do some work on Friday due early Monday morning but students can't expect a professor to do the same. But it's still incredibly annoying, and that's the truth.
Field trip was much nicer today - we spent most of the day on the coast where it's about 10-20 degrees cooler and breezy so we drank much less water.
I started out the day with a minor incident: I bought a waterbottle yesterday so I could increase my water supply, and when I arrived at the parking lot today I realized my backpack was dripping...the new water bottle leaked everywhere. Luckily my backpack is a hiking backpack and marginally waterproof so there was only minor damage to my notebook, and none to my phone and camera. The worst damage was to my packet of gum that turned into some white sticks surrounded by blue cardboard goop.
We went to Laguna Beach which is a very VERY rich ritzy neighborhood, and were absolutely awestruck by some of the houses there. There was a couple on the beach while we were there getting their engagement photos taken (they were obviously rich too, they had THREE photographers with them!) and the girl fell off the rock her fiance carried her to into the sea and we all burst out laughing at her screech. We felt a little bad...but since most of us are poor students, we didn't feel too bad.
We had lunch at a nice national park station that had absolutely lovely bathrooms, and a beautiful shaded deck that faced mountains. We sat on the deck and ate, talking about classes and life, and it was so nice to actually relax and talk to people my own age again, I felt almost at home.
After lunch we hiked up an awful, steep, rocky trail to examine some rock formations and we were all huffing, puffing, and inwardly cursing our prof when he turned around and called out gaily, "Come on now, it's not a real geological expedition if you don't do some real hiking!" The guy next to me, who I think had headache problems since I saw him closing his eyes and touching his forehead a lot muttered, "No, no it could be [legitimate without hiking]."
We hit up a few more beaches and the funniest moment of the trip came when I was examining a huge shale boulder in the middle of the beach with one of the students who was trying to explain the formation to me (he's more advanced than I am) and everyone else was right at the water's edge with Dr. Behl. Suddenly they all screamed and Chris and I looked up to see a huge wave splashing them and coming right towards us, so we rushed out of the way as the others ran up the beach. Only a couple people got splashed badly, and most of them were good sports about it. I was very glad I avoided the wave, because my camera was in my back pocket.
Then we drove home and in the parking lot we had to draw slips of paper out of a hat to determine which rock formation we get to write a page-long abstract about. Naturally, I drew the one formation (out of five) that I knew the least about.
Then I came home, sent some emails, and crawled into bed, only to wake up at 7:20 when a friend called, talked for twenty minutes, then dragged myself out of bed and started typing up my notes. It's now 10:20 and my eleven pages of notes (front and back equaling 22 pages) are typed up and more emails are sent.
I'm exhausted. I wanted to watch all of the VMAs, but they only started broadcasting them at 9 pm here, even though they were filmed HERE at 6 pm - stupid MTV, why can't you just air it at 6 and again at 9?? I'll just have to catch a rerun.
I'll post pictures eventually. Honestly, I don't think I'll get to them tomorrow, I have two classes plus laundry and grocery shopping and reading to do, but I will get to them this week.
Goodnight!
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