TEN random things about me:
10. I’ve seen 216 species of birds in North America.
9. It takes me an insane amount of time to write one email.
8. I sing when doing laundry and dishes.
7. My hands are always sweaty, and I still bite my nails.
6. Every Sunday I read PostSecret.
5. It’s getting to be four years since I’ve seen most of my extended family.
4. Part of me always wishes I were in a foreign country.
3. I have to be lying on my right side, in the fetal position, with one hand on either side of the pillow, to fall asleep.
2. Much as I claim to be an outdoors enthusiast, I’m terrible at biking and swimming. (edit: No more!) I also own no Nalgene products and am therefore not a true field biologist.
1. I make $125 a week and think it’s a lot of money.

EIGHT Lasts:
8. Alcoholic beverage: Punch at Mokyi’s NYE party
7. Phone call: Stan
6. CD played: “Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs, Eastern Region” (…Okay, that doesn’t count. “Guapa” by La Oreja de Van Gogh)
5. Book: “The Robber Bride” by Margaret Atwood
4. Cry: The day after watching “Babel”
3. Food: Quiche
2. Movie: “Pan’s Labyrinth”
1. Hug: A guy at the station when I burst into his lab yelling that I’d gotten into grad school

SIX things I love to do:
6. Get paid to work outdoors.
5. Break a sweat.
4. Read Washington Post discussions.
3. Receive emails.
2. See neat things in the field (like this today, so cool!)
1. Stay busy and savor the lack of pressure here.

FIVE things I want to do:
5. See the western United States.
4. Teach.
3. Be published.
2. Stop living in mortal fear of the fact that some people won’t like me.
1. Reconcile my career path with community service. I don’t think I could forgive myself if I ever thought studying birds was more important than helping people. And I don’t care if that sounds saccharine; I never want to be like the distinguished birder who, in his quest to see the quetzal of Guatemala, was completely ignorant that the charming Mayans he passed in the rainforest were fleeing a civil war.

FOUR of my favorite items in my bedroom:
I live in a 7-person dorm now, so um…bed, journal, Chapstick and flashlight?

THREE things I do every day:
3. Drive an ATV. Oh, and apply sunscreen.
2. Stare at jays staring at me and hope they're building a nest somewhere.
1. Cook dinner and usurp the crossword.

TWO things I am trying not to do right now:
Revise a paper and fill out a FAFSA for next year, neither of which is urgent.

ONE thing you regret:
I’m with Jess here: At the moment, nothing.