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Jun. 14th, 2008 01:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ruSo. OMG you people.
My advisor and I came to the realization that I need to be in the field, particularly in the south, like, now. I have to, otherwise I run the risk of missing the prime time for my grass, lest it move into its taxonomically useless fall phase.
So what does that mean for me? It means a mad scramble to try and get permits (great timing on my part too--everyone I need to talk to is either on vacation or in the field) while planning a massive trip along the Atlantic coast. Considering that I've never gone on a road trip by myself before, and I'm notoriously bad at following directions, you know I'm absolutely thrilled.
I'm going to do this in two legs. If all goes well, I can do the trip south at the end of this week, during which I'll hit Georgia and Florida. Then I'll come back, and a couple weeks later, hopefully with Eien-chan in tow to help navigate, I'll go to Maryland, stop in DC for a couple days to root through the Smithsonian's herbarium (which I am admittedly really looking forward to. You know it's going to be awesome), then go to New Jersey, and, assuming I can get the permits and it can be planned, go to southern Pennsylvania. Then next year, with the bulk of my collection done, I can pinpoint hit other areas, like Louisiana and Massachusetts.
But right now, my focus is almost entirely on the south trip. I hope I can get everything done by Thursday. If not, I'll have to push it back a week, and with Florida and Georgia's growing season ahead of us, the risk increases that I'll get there, but what I find will be useless.
Good God, I hope I can do this.
My advisor and I came to the realization that I need to be in the field, particularly in the south, like, now. I have to, otherwise I run the risk of missing the prime time for my grass, lest it move into its taxonomically useless fall phase.
So what does that mean for me? It means a mad scramble to try and get permits (great timing on my part too--everyone I need to talk to is either on vacation or in the field) while planning a massive trip along the Atlantic coast. Considering that I've never gone on a road trip by myself before, and I'm notoriously bad at following directions, you know I'm absolutely thrilled.
I'm going to do this in two legs. If all goes well, I can do the trip south at the end of this week, during which I'll hit Georgia and Florida. Then I'll come back, and a couple weeks later, hopefully with Eien-chan in tow to help navigate, I'll go to Maryland, stop in DC for a couple days to root through the Smithsonian's herbarium (which I am admittedly really looking forward to. You know it's going to be awesome), then go to New Jersey, and, assuming I can get the permits and it can be planned, go to southern Pennsylvania. Then next year, with the bulk of my collection done, I can pinpoint hit other areas, like Louisiana and Massachusetts.
But right now, my focus is almost entirely on the south trip. I hope I can get everything done by Thursday. If not, I'll have to push it back a week, and with Florida and Georgia's growing season ahead of us, the risk increases that I'll get there, but what I find will be useless.
Good God, I hope I can do this.
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Date: 2008-06-15 12:10 am (UTC)Also, damn, I can't imagine many people who get to go on ROAD TRIPS for their theses. This is so exciting <3