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I’ve received some interesting emails recently. Including one from mum who said that, with respect to me thinking about different job opportunities,

I am just concerned that you are currently in a really stressful situation, in constant pain, poor and liable to make a decision without thinking fully through the consequences.

Meanwhile, Rusty, one of my ex-volunteers, is starting a Masters on the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, which is damn cool.

Here is the webpage we put up www.auburn.edu/ivorybill today, and the article http://www.ace-eco.org/ documenting the sightings, recordings, cavities, and feeding sign during the last year. To tell you the truth, I knew nothing about this when I chose Auburn as the place to do my Master’s work, but I can assure you that it has been a very pleasant surprise to find myself in the middle of this project.

One from the editors of Ecology…

Your manuscript will appear in Ecology 87(10) — the October 2006 issue — at pages 2411-2417.

Karin taunting me…

> I got it!
>
> I just cut that section that I didn’t write today! which means I am back on schedule
> Great! Love it! Works every time!
>
> I am an idea’s lady!
> Hope you are on track too!
> Karin.

And one from Ben entitled “Bikespirational”

Hey Tom, Andy put me onto your blog (I’m that bigjogger guy) just thought I’d give you a hoy-hoy thought you might be interested in my latest transport.

Not quite skilled enough to head into fixieland, but I was with Andy on Saturday, and (partly due to your adventures in bikes) decided to pick up a dodgy old bike to ride to the Station rather than spending up to an hour in traffic

a local bikeshop owner told me that he couldn’t sell me anything 2nd hand as it’s risky and I might sue him… he then proceeded to see what was ‘on the roof’ and magicially producted an old (but still Alloy) mountain bike…

it has what appears to be somewhere in the region of a quadrillion gears most of which slip when exerting all but the lightest of pedal efforts…

it’s reduced a 20 min walk into a 4 min roll/pedal which make catching the train worthwhile, oh the kicker, it was $100 and they wacked new tubes in it…

I’ll strip it down at some stage and paint it flat olive, good fun.

And lastly, on from Nick asking me for money.

I will be travelling to Costa Rica on a Volunteer Community Development Program. To undertake this program i must raise the participation fee of $3,500. This is where you come in. Your kind, generous and tax deductible donations would be greatly appreciated in helping me to reach this target.

Nick didn’t put any payment details in his email, so I couldn’t transfer my $3000 donation, but this site gets nearly 200 visitors per day, so maybe some free publicity can be my donation.

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