Back to the real world..

I've been home for a few days now, and am finally starting to feel recovered.  The first night back I was unable to get any sleep in my soft, comfy bed because I had become so adjusted to sleeping on the ground in my tent.  But a few nights of increasingly better sleep, some good sushi, long showers, a pedicure, and some lounging around with the dogs have helped to restore my mental and physical exhaustion from the last five and a half weeks in the field.

Here is a link to our end-of-the-season slideshow.  This includes photos from numerous people's cameras, and we showed it at our 4th of July party the night before everyone left camp.  We had a pretty terrific group of students, and the level to which everyone got along with each other was pretty fantastic.

Now it's more or less back to the same old grind for me.  I'll be picking up work again starting next week, and hopefully can keep myself busy enough to get by until the next field stint, which should be sometime in late August.  Of course I'll be trying to ride my bike as much as possible in between the rain and wind (we're actually having a real monsoon season in Tucson this summer!), maybe picking up a softball game here and there, and Josh and I plan to do quite a bit of hiking and camping when possible.  You know, typical summertime stuff.