Photos!

Let's see if my computer can handle video chatting and uploading photos at the same time.

(Note, afterward: Definitely not.)

Obligatory "on the road" photo.  I can't even remember where this was along I-75.

My cabin: a lot better than the student cabins that I remember!

The view from my cabin.  Not too bad, I suppose.

This is along the Grapevine Point trail that starts near the western edge of the main camp.

Some sort of daisy-looking flower.  I have no idea what it actually might be.

Some sort of yellow flower.  I also didn't know my camera was capable of taking photographs like this.

And when I got back to the main part of camp, I saw this little chipmunk, and I have no idea how or why it let me get so close.  Next goal: a photo of a thirteen-lined ground squirrel.

Summer?

I don't think summer actually exists here, but then I haven't been here very long as of yet.  It is currently 56° outside with occasional wind gusts and patches of rain.  Not many are at the library right now.

Instruction

Just had my first instruction session of the summer!  Not a particularly taxing session, mind you, since there were only about 15 people in the class and all I was supposed to do was show students how to get to some databases.  But I still had to take a little time and prepare some material so that at least the names of the databases to use would stick.  That counts, right?  I'm counting it.

Beginnings

Welcome to my corner of the Intertubes. Here you will find a recounting of my adventures as the solo librarian for the University of Michigan Biological Station in Pellston, Michigan (part of that nebulous region of "up north"). In no way, shape, or form is this like anything I have done before.

• Solo librarian? I've always had coworkers I could refer people to.
  
• Eight weeks in a camp? I spent four weeks here in the Spring 2007 semester, but other than that, my existence has always been in some sort of urban setting.
  
• Lots of bugs? Definitely not.

I don't promise good prose or even much excitement here, but once I download the pictures from my camera, perhaps there will be some half decent photographs!