Sunday, August 3, 2008

Adventures in Costa Rica, or, how i learned to love the rainforest from within an air-conditioned room

Just home late last night from Costa Rica. Had a great time with the REU crew (Brenda, Shea, Mel, and Chris [see links at left] and the rest of the village. For the first time since I was 15, I spent a good deal of my time in the rainforest in air-conditioned comfort, aka, I froze my ass. Here's a pic of me deep in the jungle, working hard with the crew:


Yeah, I was down there to do stats. You perceptive bloggeroos will notice that's R I have open; trying to get the damn code to work for 4 different study designs. I do have some good stories and a few pics to post, from outside actually, but that'll have to wait. Cerveza calls, and tonight... there is no beans&rice.... or rice&beans... or rice with beans&rice...

3 comments:

Mick said...

Beans & rice huh? Rumor has it ya couldn't wait to partake of Domino's pizza when ya got back. It's not nice to put down simple fare while dining on pedestrian fodder even if ya are washing it down with micro brews.

Buck up cowboy, it coulda been worse. Ask Brian.

The Eatons said...

OMG!!! Five days!!! Big baby. I'm making beans and rice for you as soon as I get back......and I'll withhold the hot sauce. Pizza, hmmph! Don't forget that I'll also be serving seperated brown juice as a chaser.
Besides, air conditioning was probably a requirement for you. You sweat as bad as Bill does(maybe not quite as stinky tho').

Brenda, B-Dizzle, Sweet B, B, I answer to them all said...

Dwight, unlike Ellen Griswald, I do feel bad for you having to eat rice and beans for 5 whole days of your life....I feel bad that you were not down here long enough to fall in love with it. After 43 days, I can honestly say that I am truly, madly, deeply in love with rice and beans...it keeps me regular.