Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween or Samhain or All Souls Night...Whichever you prefer to call it.

I pulled the last of my substrates yesterday, so the field aspect of my field work is officially 100% complete. It was kind of sad really. I came to know these places quite well over the summer. They were country. They were an escape for me, an escape from the dreaded, natureless city. When it came time to leave, I realized that it didn't seem right to just turn my back and walk away, never to return. It felt as if I needed to say goodbye or something. Dave felt the same way, I believe. We stood there for a while, looking out over the swamp, soaking it all in in a sort of melancholy silence. The warm sun, cool fall air, and the breeze passing through the dried poofy cattails -- I miss it even now. Even the few remaining dragonflies came to bid us farewell. It was the end of another subchapter in my life. I'll miss that swamp.

In any case, today was all unpacking and cleaning. And now that I have all of my data, I'll be analyzing the next couple of weeks away. Hopefully I can find something significant. Statistics are so overrated.