tuesday notes
Yesterday was the first day I was assigned a field task in 3 weeks. I spent the day unloading soil samples from one sea-land, and transporting them to another newer sea-land. For those noit aware a sea-land is named that way bc it's a storage box that can be transported over sea or land, you know those huge metal boxes without windows, ventillation or lighting that you see stacked on top of eachother on barges. Yesterday was something like 95 degrees with 92% humidity and I am now no longer acclimated to such weather. Every time I bend over sweat would just pour from my forehead then down and off my nose. Way to spend a 10 hour work day. On top of the opressive heat, the 'evil oven box' as I referred to it was leaky and so all paper and wood materials were water damaged and moldy. The cheap particle board shelving was warped and had green moldy stuff growing in whispy strings from under each shelf. And the place was literally crawling with spiders. I would see probably 20 spiders at a time hiding under a shelf or between the storage boxes. I am still picking brown boogies out of my nose from the dust - dust from soil samples potentially contaminated with U-232 and tar. Nice!