Life is almost back to normal

My life has been slightly more mundane the last week and nothing horribly exciting has been happening. I've been back in Pretoria long enough that things are starting to calm down a little. We're still feeding elephant shrews and rock rats in captivity for another week or so before we can remove dataloggers from the animals and see if the experiment was a success. I'm absolutely buried after 3+ months in the field, but I'm slowly catching up. I've been working extremely long hours the last few days and I have one manuscript finished and ready to submit this week and two more that will go out in the next week or two.

Otherwise, I'm starting to settle in to living here. I've been watching a fair amount of rugby and I'm learning that South Africans love to have social get-togethers where they almost always braai (barbecue) an absurd amount of meat. Spring is just starting, so everyone wants to be outside and I've got at least four braais scheduled this week. I hate to say it, but I actually feel like a bit of a vegetarian in this country!