And thank you for all the supporting comments on my "I feel alone a lot of the time, and sometimes the people I regard as friends are better talkers than they are listeners" thing. It helps to know I'm not the only one who feels like that sometimes.

On my way out to the field site to see if errant student has shown up. (Funny how "errant" used to mean something good, like Knights Errant, and now it more often than not means someone who isn't where you expect them to be). And then I call other student back. And this has just become a big clusterfudge.