Or adventures down South, as the case may be

Hopefully I'll have frequent enough access to the internet to use this blog for my month down south.

Flew from Boston to Atlanta yesterday. Studied for boards in the airport for a few hours (yuck), then got picked up by 2 SCWDS grad students. (SCWDS is the Southeast Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study, the group with whom I'm spending this 4-week externship). Emily & Jess are nice girls. We drove for a looong time. There's not a whole lot in central Alabama.

(I tried to post a map in there, but it didn't work. Go to google maps and type in directions from Athens, GA to Memphis, TN. You'll get the idea.)

We spent the night at a hotel on Beale St. in Memphis. Got a beer at Silky O'Sullivan's (dueling piano bar with goats that live out next to the patio). I forgot that one can still smoke in bars that aren't in Mass or NYC. Ew.

Breakfast soon, then heading northwest into Arkansas.

Among my goals for the week in Arkansas-- not to break my streak of never having entered a Wal-Mart. Wish me luck.