Finish up in field, spend rest of day processing samples in lab. Encounter the largest engorged tick I've ever seen!

Coordinate travels home.

Middle of day interjected with great surprise: package! Yeah! Only took 17 days! Thanks mom and dad!

Good news on the Kenyan political front

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/29/world/africa/29kenya.html?_r=1&8au&emc=au&oref=slogin

Trying to coordinate plans with a field assistant to go and check out their experimental plot, maybe help with some ant ids.