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Today I received a beautiful thing in the mail, which came in a brown box... FILLED WITH CHILI BAMBOO SHOOTS!!

Oh HOORAY! I AM VERY HAPPY! THE BEST MAIL EVER.

My stir-frys will be EPIC from now on... Chili Bamboo Shoots + Broccoli + Soy Sauce + Brussels Sprouts + Bean Sprouts + Pumpkin + Zucchini

I think I get about every major vegetable with that!

On a side note I also have mostly finished my carbon paper for my geophysics class. It was pretty hard working in a group with that many people. The discipline barrier can be quite large; for example, at one point we are looking at a south facing slope. A forester, hearing south facing slope, would think "this aspect means more radiation, leading to dry climate, low vegetation." A geophysicist thinks, "perpendicular intersection of cap rock with the underlying bedrock, slippage of soil, low vegetation"---- we get the same end, but have two different means. So then you go along wondering, why are they talking about this perpendicular rock, and they're thinking, why are you talking about radiation and in the end everyone's kind of confused about everything. I ended up just doing a model for decompostion of stream wood, standing dead wood, and (with a lot of help) wood lying on the ground. The distributions turned out to match the ideal distributions for the stand types and I think that my carbon balance is within the acceptable range for our (bad) sample size, so I'm going to go with that for now.