AAAAAAHHH (or linkety-link-link pretend I wrote stuff)

Time for excuses... I haven't had real internet connection in about 4 weeks, and I haven't updated in a more than 4 weeks and that is no good. I have been back at Mpala for 3 days now and I haven't posted anything yet, but in my defense, I've been kept quite busy making power points (I'm getting pretty awesome at making powerpoints) and crashing through bushes trying to gather data about dik diks for a final project. The most information I've gotten is that dik diks have a wonderful ability to look at you from 50m away with a withering glance that says, "I hope you're being ironic, because if you think that a big lumbering ape like you is getting close enough to see what I'm doing, that's just pathetic", and bound away like they've got trampoline shoes. But it's all ok, because I switched from an observational approach to experimental; I destroyed all of their latrines, and switched out the scent-marked sticks in one of their territories with sticks from two other territories. And tomorrow morning we'll see who's the big lumbering ape... well, still me, because I used my opposable ape thumbs to shovel dirt all over your middens and move your furniture around. Although it's not as hilarious as what Sam did. (Any readers from Sam's blog, ask him what he did.)

Anyway, I can direct you to two things I wrote were posted on the interblags for me, both of which include a picture of me holding Sondai, the late great baby ostrich.

Mom, can I get an ostrich?

Ok, so, in two days I will be halfway done with my semester here, and I will also have my first real day off since Feb. 22. And then I will put up those things I said I would write, that I've sort-of worked on. A little. And also about 1200 photos of beautiful things and not-so-beautiful things, and a CRAZY SNAKE THAT FELL FROM THE GRASS THATCH ROOF IN A DEATH COIL AROUND A MOUSE ONTO A TABLE A FOOT AWAY FROM ME.

Get excited.