There are a lot of things I want to say, but none of them I want to broadcast throughout the internet. I am too old fashioned! So I will stick to my paper journal for those things.

Life is good! I have collected a bunch of the needed samples from various wells and springs here on the Sev, and I will be looking at them under the microscope today! Hopefully I'll find some pretty cool shist. (Shist is a rock. ...And that was a really lame geo joke.) There are these really cool things called'bloodworms' that seem to be in a lot of my samples... They look like huge nematodes and they are blood red.



Apparently they have segmented bodies so I guess they are not really that similar to Nematodes. Anyway, they are the larvae of chironomidae flies, and the reason they are red is because they have hemoglobin!! I think that is so cool. This allows them to live in low-oxygen environments, like the muck at the bottom of a spring or drinker. COOL!

(This is not my picture or finger. No way would I touch that thing!)