the wilds of VA

[thanate]

So for this week and next I'm working at Fort AP Hill doing a phase 1 (lots of digging holes with absolutely nothing in them) and crashing about in woods that are mercifully free of poison ivy, but plentifully supplied with prickery underbrush, streams & wetlands to wade though, and the occasional tick infestation. And for some reason I am aparently completely incapable of seeing ticks-- I will carefully check for them before showering, and find none, and then still manage to be covered in evil little bites. Sometimes I'll find one a day or two later. Sometimes they just vanish (clinging to the insides of my pants, perhaps?) It's very confusing, and the day I get lyme disease or whatever I will be most upset.

But whatever the drawbacks (including having to scrounge a phone cable to plug in my computer, as the one in the telephone is permanently attached) I still by far prefer this to sitting in an office and answering phones.