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Skriven 2008-12-27 09:25:06 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av Ruth Haffly
Ärende: RE: down the hatch!                                          [1]
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Haouli Maka Hiki Ho  Ruth!

-> Hi Hap,
-> 
->  hn> Mele Kalikimaka Ruth!
-> 
-> Hope you're enjoying your white one.  It's brown and warm here.
-> 
A bit too white actually! Spent Christmas
and most of the week so far staying in from
the weather. The roads are HORRIBLE, with 
no side roads plowed at all. Right now the
roads are a mass of frozen slushy ruts that
are like roller coaster tracks and you can't 
seem to get out of them! The main roads are 
far more heavily travelled and have been 
somewhat beaten into submission, but 
none of the residential streets have seen
any help at all. 

-> ->  hn> efficient method. When there's a larger
-> ->  hn> population on site, there's a meal plan.
-> 
-> -> So they should vet the potential grad student's cooking ability before
-> -> accepting. (G)
-> 
->  hn> With today's population that might limit the
->  hn> grad students severely!(grin). Although I'll
->  hn> admit several dropped into the kitchen
->  hn> while I was there to watch and ask questions,
->  hn> so there is hope!!(g)
-> 
-> So maybe you ought to hire on as a cook/instructor?
->
(grin) That would be interesting! A lot of the 
kids are going to school on Mom and Dad's 
dime however and have no interest in doing
for themselves. They will run up to Pelican 
market and buy a day's worth of "stuff" and 
repeat the process the next day; mom and dad
are footing the bill and money has no meaning to 
them, so they can't see it as a self sufficnient
sort of thing. Just one more "bother" in their
day! Right now there are only two grad 
students at the dorms, Amanda, and 
Sukrit, a nice young man from Thailand.
That's the total population of the housing
area right now. Sukrit is from a well to 
do, highly placed in the military, family.
He is learning to cook, but has little 
knowledge of what he's doing most of
the time. He found out that you can 
catch crab off the marina dock (about 2 miles
away or so) with no license as long as 
you do it from the break water...so he's
been catching crabs and loving em...
his first "bait" for the crabs was
fresh chicken breast from the 
store! Amanda has since clued him
in on using "lesser" cuts of meat 
for crab bait! (grin). His family,
father mother and several of
mother's friends came over 
for Christmas holidays and they
are spending the holidays in 
Yosemite, seeing snow for 
the first time! 
 
-> ->  hn> In the summer the area is full with
-> ->  hn> tourists and vacationers, in the winter
-> ->  hn> it's pretty isolated and very quiet.
-> 
-> -> I presume most of the students like the winter months better. They can
-> -> use the time to write up research done over the summer.  Research like
-> -> what group of tourists get lobster red in the sun while others go only
-> -> to shrimp pink?  That is marine life related, isn't it? (G)
-> 
->  hn> Summers are not like the beaches in the Southeast,
->  hn> or Hawaii (grin). Winter's tend to be a bit sunnier,
-> 
-> Beaches in the southeast don't compare to HI.  The water is murky & the
-> sand is more of a tan than white.
->
Yup, I've been there (grin)
 
->  hn> summers are often cool and foggy. It is north of
->  hn> San Francisco which is renowned for it's cool
->  hn> foggy summers! Actually most folks perfer
-> 
-> I lived south of SF for a winter-it was a wet, grey one thanks to El
-> Nino.  Didn't get a chance to experience summer--got there in early
-> September and left in early March.
->
There's a marked difference in th weather patterns
south of SF, and Monterey is very different than
the weather patterns north of the city. 
 
->  hn> the summer "field" season, there's LOTS of
->  hn> activity and extremely interesting folks to
->  hn> meet and listen to. All sorts of very VERY
->  hn> interesting research projects going on. And
->  hn> there's always a huge crop of undergraduates
->  hn> running around learning "stuff"! (grin). You were
-> 
-> Sounds like an "interesting" time. (G)
->
Very much so!
 
->  hn> quite right about the winter being the time
->  hn> to write up and evaluate the data gathered
->  hn> over the field season though! Most of that
->  hn> is done behind closed doors and it's much
->  hn> more quiet around the labs then!
-> 
-> As if everybody is in hibernation.
->
Good analogy! Although they do
continue to have meetings where
different folks discuss what their 
current project is and how it's going.
 
-> -> Somebody could make money opening up a small eatery specialising in 
just
-> -> breakfast and lunch.  Probably not as much during the winter but make 
up
-> -> for it over the summer.
-> 
->  hn> I suppose a "roach coach" might do fairly well
->  hn> during the summer, but it's a long drive out to the
->  hn> labs and there's nothing else around to make the
->  hn> trip worth it.
-> 
-> So the students have to learn to cook or otherwise scavange food for
-> themselves.
->
Precisely! With the drop off in field
work, Amanda has even managed to
put on some weight...she's not very
happy about that ! (grin) But she's 
still in good shape, just heavier than
she wants to be. 
 
-> ->  hn> Amanda tries to get into Sebastopol at least
-> ->  hn> every other week.
-> 
-> -> Did she when she first got there? I seem to recall you having to work at
-> -> her to stop working long enough to get a meal together.
-> 
->  hn> GRIN, nope, when she first got there she
->  hn> was her typical self...working about 18 hours
->  hn> a day, 7 days a week, and thinking that she
->  hn> was not working hard enough! (grin)...I am
-> 
-> And eating whatever she could put together with little thought so she
-> could get back to the books.
->
Yes, or not eating for a day at a time because
she "forgot" or there "wasn't time!"
 
->  hn> very pleased that she's finally getting to
->  hn> the point where she sees the real value
->  hn> in having that "off" time! Now she volunteers
->  hn> with the Humane society at the shelter
->  hn> every week and is getting involved with
->  hn> things OTHER than the lab! She even
->  hn> takes days off now and again! YAY!!
-> 
-> There's hope for her yet!  Is this her last year here?
-> 
Nope, I think she'll be there for a couple 
more, more than that if they offer her a 
"post Doc" position.
Chat with you soon!
hap 
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