A super duper fast update
Just so everyone doesn't think we're dead.... I have been inexcusably incommunicado lately, but there's a reason - well, several reasons, actually! Husband and I (and a field crew of 8 additional people) are headed to the Peruvian Amazon in exactly one week (Maya is going to her grandparents' house). We will be gone for a month, followed immediately by a job interview for me to be promoted to a tenure track position, which will be HUGE if I get it. Cross your fingers that I don't come home with half my face eaten off from leishmaniasis, which would make for one hell of a memorable job interview :) Thus, I am simultaneously trying to prepare for a brand new field research program with all brand new equipment (that I don't know how to work well yet) *and* prepare a job application, which is due before I leave. Oh, and I have to organize everything with the house, the child, and the cat to be without my attention for a month. Even the little things are star