The Elated Skip Jack (CLICK BEETLES)

Oh, just the busyness of summer.

We're at the home stretch now.

Just a few weeks until school starts.

Tossing my children back into the care of others so I can feel my brain work.

It's not really working.

We spent the night.

I didn't.

To be clear, I did not.

But my oldest spent the night in a tent last night because we didn't go camping this summer because I don't really like camping.

I was like, you can set up a tent in the backyard.

out in the yard

he goes

so that's we're just trying to soak up the last of that oh although i'm in oregon so a lot of our um plans have been set aside because the air has been so bad because oregon is on fire and continues to be on fire um it's rough i'm sorry yeah it's all right it's you know the conditions were perfect this year of dry dry grass and a hot hot summer And et voila, as they say.

I

can't believe the summer is almost over and that I'm going to have to start teaching soon.

Yeah, do you have your assignments? Dealing with all my responsibilities.

You know when you're back? I have to create lectures.

You have to put all that together.

I just submitted a paper for a publication that I worked on.

Oh, yes.

Tell us about this.

You texted the chat.

I was like, tell me more.

Yeah.

submitting something for publication is a long process it's about how isopods interact in a novel environment so an environment they've never seen before and I put them in either my student puts them in either alone or in groups of five and they react very differently when it's a little herd of them Yeah, than they do by themselves.