damn my life is glamerous!

As I write this blog I have recently returned home from another oh so glamerous day in as a grad student.

I have in the past year been a cold, wet grad student, a sweaty, filthy grad student, a bug-bitten, ichy grad student and a grinding room/lab bound grad student. But as of today I have reached a new high (low?). I am now ...... a fecal sludge filtering grad student.

Hold your groans and looks of disgust!

It is here that I must point out that it has been dried, ground and soaked overnight in ethanol, so really as clean as bovine feces can be.

And you may now commence with your general revulsion.

Now Brian has pointed out to me that I have a job that only certain people could do, and I suppose this is very true, I mean most people that see pictures of my trailer get this look of horror and say they could never live there. and even a fellow grad student who also has to do fecal work looked at my sludge and said that it was gross. While I am not saying it is a barrel of laughs, it really isn't that bad.

But then I always have been kinda weird like that.

And so tomorrow brings another day of filtering fecal sludge, but really if this is the price I pay for the coolest summer job in the world, complete with government issue trailer, cows, a quad and when I am really lucky a truck, I say which way to the sludge!