I'm back from my last two field research trips in Louisiana. We found no spotted skunks of course. But did find Hispid cotton rats and an Eastern box turtle in our traps.
We got our usual visitors to the track plates: opossum and white-footed mice. On camera we got a coyote, raccoons, opossum, mice, armadillo, and a starving dog unfortunately...
Then I went over to Orlando to visit Liz and my brother Ben. That was a very nice break.
Alan and I need to go to Louisiana one more time for me to defend my thesis and to appear in court against our former landlady. Our lawyer thinks this may be in April so I need to finish up my thesis.
So then what? We have a low cost of living right now in Myrtle Beach thanks to the generosity of my parents. But there's no real job potential for me here; I'm not going into the tourist industry as a career. So we would need to move and that costs money. But one thing at a time.
