DAY ONE OF RESEARCH DONE!! Funny moments...

Another post on the scholarship blog!  Snippets below -- click the title link to read the full post. <3

Note: Does not include the five minutes it took me to find the automatic sliding glass doors into the Herbarium building.

Hauser Sophomore Scholars 2013: Reports from the Field: Day 1: Doubtful Decisions around Teatime

I arrived bright and early at the Reading Room at the Herbarium to find two huge piles of books and a trolley of archival materials with my name on them.  I felt like a kid in a candy store.  (Literally.  Every person who interacted with me looked very confused, as if a seven-year-old had walked into the sacred temple of fragile artifacts.  My mother says I’ll be thankful for my youthful looks when I’m older…)

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QUOTATIONS OF THE DAY 

“Curtis wrote him again soon, undertaking to gather and preserve especially fleshy fungi.”  –Ronald Petersen, “B. & C.”: The Mycological Association of M.J. Berkeley and M.A. Curtis Petersen.

“Their correspondence is tedious in extremis, and I must vote Broome one of the most boring men in the history of mycology.” --Stefan Buczacki, in Pytophthora.