2/16/2010

More data analysis this morning. We got up for breakfast at 7, as we had a lecture at 8. It was from a woman who works closely with the national park, although I’m not exactly sure what she does. She had a lot of information, but I didn’t know exactly what her focus was. We talked about the park as a whole, including recent changes and things that don’t work. After that, it was back to the old grind. We worked on getting a good analysis of our data for a while, and then divided the introduction and discussion between the four of us to get it done more quickly. Lunch was mac n cheese, although they put peppers in it. Not sure I agree.
After lunch, we continued to work on our introduction (Colin and me). It was a slow process, as working with two people can be. Around 330, we finally got to a good stopping point, and took a nice long swim. Before soccer, we tried to get a start on our results section, but didn’t get very far. Soccer was not as impressive on my part today, but it was still really fun. It feels good to just get really worked up and tired…clears your mind. I came back and worked a little more on the methods section before dinner. We then got together and pieced together some of the last pieces of the results, then set up a preliminary draft. To reward ourselves, we all walked down to the river to just lie out under the stars. And now I have to go to sleep, because I have to be up by 5:10 to go on a 5:25 game drive.