Head out to field with a friend of visiting researcher and have fun describing what I do and appreciate the help my first day back in awhile! Also first day out with new askari/field assistant. Learn quickly that he doesn’t really speak English, but have fun describing things using non-verbal cues (i.e. lots of gesticulating and smiling). At lunch learn that I have 6 mail slips in the mail slot, some of then dated 27 June. Guess those care packages did in fact arrive in Nanyuki! Spend the afternoon doing some data entry and organizing samples. Feels so good to do some stretching after being laid up for awhile. After dinner officially submit the OSU post-doc.