katycat | Loudoun County is so pretty.

OMG LOCO I AM GOING TO MISS YOU.

Tonight was Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship Holler (as in down-in-the) Abandoned House Tour Night with the summer archaeology class. I tagged along to take GPS points (and pictures)! I was last there almost exactly two years ago, when I was taking the class. Not a whole lot had changed .. but I may post some side-by-side pictures tomorrow, a couple of the changes are definitely interesting. (That qualifies as internship work, right? Maybe I'll post it to the LAF blog, too.) To whet your appetite, here's my photo gallery from May 31, 2007.

So then I came home and took a shower and realized that I'd had a dead gnat in my eye for half the night and no one told me. D: No ticks, though!

And then I used my brand-new GPS interface cord to pull the location data off my eTrex! OMG. DNR Garmin can save data as Google Earth shapefiles! IT IS AWESOME AND IT IS MY NEW BEST FRIEND. Because I do have ArcGIS but I don't have any shapefiles to project the data onto for *context* unless I go to Reston and get on the county network to grab some. (Although it does make it pretty obvious that either my margin of error is bigger than I thought or I need to fiddle with the coordinate system in DNR Garmin and redownload. My money's on both, actually.)

Anyway, watch for an actual update on my Real Life at some point .. later.