BEST Entry #7

What's up yo?

Sooooo sorry for not having any pictures of me yet on that website. I see that you all still read on a 4th grade level...strictly pictures and no text. Good news in the photo department, I've been told by the writer that tomorrow(Thursday) is Doug and Mike day. I informed her that it should be strictly, Doug Day, and that we should celebrate it like Black History Month. Which, I know, turns the whole day into month long celebration. Just makes for more Pinatas.

The reason for the Primary Production day is because, well it was basically the last thing on their list. Check out the WHOI website for updates.

Also, great news. I did not spend my whole day filtering. We were able to deploy Sediment traps. This allows for me to go out and work on the aft deck and wear a hard hat. And instead of a work vest, we gotta wear these huge orange jumpsuits called Mustang Suits. Tomorrow, we'll recover them. The owner of the traps, Pat, has told me that the small boat must be used for retrieval. He doesn't want to do this, so I was more than happy to hop in the a little boat and spin around. Again, increases chance of Doug exposure on the website. And don't worry, I won't be alone and driving it. Because if THAT happened, I'd depart to find a seal, capture one, then try to find a polar bear for a "feeding" experiment. Those guys are so friggin hungry.

I think I recently broke a record for longest consecutive streak of breakfasts eaten before 8am. Going on 21. Nobody's done that before. Ever. If anyone is interested, I'll sign a photograph of a muffin and fax it to you.

So starting with B-fast, generally this is how my day goes.

730 - Talk about Breakfast streak, WHILE, eating breakfast.
800 - Wander down to main lab. Stand around.
830 - Suduko.
900 - Sample CTD.
1000 - Filter water, alone, in a room with red light, to the background of ACDC mixed in with your greatest hits from the 80's.
1130 - Eat lunch. With a motherfucking salad.
1200 - Return to lab to figure out how bored I am.
1203 - Sudoku
1240 - Nap/TV or sample another CTD.
100-400 - Wander semi-aimlessly between research papers. I'm getting smart. Watch out. Or watch the absurd amount of playoff sports there are on tv. Love it, especially like watching them during the day. Did anyone notice KG's impression of a retard after Ray Allen hit that shot. Jesus.
500 - Dinner. With guess what....another friggin Salad.
600 - Back to lab, probably filter or perhaps reading Chlorophyll samples.
800 - Emails and whatnot. TV.
900 - Work out. You know when you take out the trash and you throw a full hefty bag into the can, and it doesn't quite fit and kind of spills out over the edge. Well that's basically what my stomach looks like going into my torso. Thank god they have a treadmill.
1000 - Sometimes CTD, or read papers on phosphorus.
1200 - Bed. Not ONCE have my sheets stayed on the bed. The stretchy thing on all bedsheets is one of the most underrated things in my life.

All for now.

Doug