Heterotrophic Bacteria

Today was my first brush with the academic community. I was sitting in a former professor's office by 8:45am. Dr. Thomas e-mailed me late yesterday evening to ask if I would like to do research with him again. We have allready worked together on two projects,both concerning bacteria. Yum.

Dr. Thomas in Blowing Cave

Yesterday my sister's wedding was the only bothersome event in my life, now I have a grant proposal to write and what seems like yards of paperwork to do. I'm supposed to convince an orginization called SURF that they should pay me a couple thousand to study "Heterotrophic bacteria as a function of the depth at which it resides in a cave," specifically Blowing Cave, under Cushman AR. The problem lies in the fact that I couldn't--at first--recal what the heck heterotrophic meant! Besides worrying about hair appointments, I now need to relearn freshman biology.

So, you can all guess what I will be doing today, right? I'll be hammering roofing to a friend's house, and helping paint the inside. Hopfully my next entry will have a few pictures of Mary's wintertight house and the beautiful view from the bluff in her back yard. I can worry about heterotophs tomorrow.