Woke up at 6am to go on a walk in the morning, but got distracted for a half an hour by how HUGE our bread got overnight! Bread needs warmth to rise, and the best place is right on top of the refrigerator. The bread dough was literally flowing over the sides of the pan. SO we divided it into two pans, then went on a 30 minute walk, stopping to buy bananas on the way home (always a good thing to buy, since they're super cheap and they are only decent looking in the local pulperias every so many days). One egg breakfast with part of an old onion that wasn't disgusting yet, and Grant made the most incredible juice: grapefruit and orange with lemon grass tea. Boxed juices aren't bad, but they're super strong and free fruit is a better way to go no matter what.
I spent most of the morning at work picking sornia, my favorite job. NOT. It was kinda ironic that I was picking it, since normally my fall-back job here is to PLANT the stupid stuff. it's growing like crazy right outside of garden number 6, so I picked it and put it in a bucket and then planted it in bags. (oh look, there's the planting!). For the most part, the mosquito weren't too bad, but I can probably attribute that to the massive amounts of DEET containing liquid I pour on myself twice daily. I also found a caterpillar that I handed off to Delvin. After 2 1/2 tours and lunch I went back to the sornia and the mosquitos were really bad. it was worse because I forgot to reapply DEET after lunch, and my emergency lemongrass tea/DEET mixture isn't good for a swarm of the monsters. I worry about my exposure to so much DEET on a daily basis, but I can't bring myself to get eaten by the bugs. Fortunately for Grant, he's immune to them. I ended up with a bunch of new bites on my hands and elbows, and even a few on my hips that could only have happened through my pants. Luckily, I got called on a tour at 2:45pm. That's basically the best time to get called, since if it's a relatively interested group, it can last until it's time to leave. Perfect. The couple was great. He had a degree in Biochem, which we connected on when we talked about the butterflies alcoholic tendencies and the activity of their alcohol dehydrogenase. I love it when there are intelligent, happy people to talk to on tours. Some people are okay to talk to - I could take or leave those tours as far as conversation goes (though really, I would always take them since it's by far more desirable to be in the habitats than anywhere else). But some groups are just wonderful. They connect with me, they're interested in what I have to say. They don't even need to speak English as their first language as long as they're interested in the world around them. This is across the board, inclusive of all people from all countries I've worked with so far.
After work we baked the bread (which had morphed into 2 1/2 loaves by lunch), drank tea, wrote emails (though we didn't send any, since the internet STILL isn't back) and read. it's pouring rain outside still, but the LOUD thunder has disappeared for now.
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