Howdy, folks. I just got back from a weekend-long field trip down to the south-Texas coast for my Quaternary-Geomorphology class. It was all very education, and I got to see another portion of the post-apocolyptic wasteland that is the great state of Texas. It was about what I expected, actually. Just picture any normal beach, and then add about a dozen off-shore oil rigs spewing out various chemicals, endless mounds of garbage and toxic waste barrels washed ashore from said rigs and/or pirate ships, lots of fat and ugly people with huge cars burning things, and enormous flesh-consuming insects of numerous varieties. The army corps of engineers was also out there pushing around piles of sand with bulldozers for seemingly no purpose what-so-ever. In fact, out professor pointed out a number of previous army-corps-made inlets and channels and what-not made in the past few decades that have since filled with sand and become completely worthless.

...Did I mention the bugs? I actually have about 45 mosquito bites covering my arms and legs and trying to sit through a three-hour long class without scratching or fidgeting today nearly drove me to complete and utter madness.

On the plus side, I got a free beer cozy and a small, plastic pig today from the office of graduate studies on account this is "graduate student appreciation week!" HOORAY!!!