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Yesterday I planted 80 barley plants in addition to my 40 corn plants. This means I have to watch 120 plants grow now, which will be tedious in the extreme but probably statistically wise. I chose barley because it is both mycorrhizal and should grow pretty fast. I was going to do some kind of grass, but the only one they had seeds for was Poa annua, which is non-mycorrhizal and in fact can be controlled in golf greens by the addition of mycorrhizal fungi to improve competition by bents and fescues. Exciting, no? It was between oat and barley, and barley seems to have better fungal interaction so I went for that.

They took away the mini corn that already had tassels and husks. Not brown yet (so not ripe) but still .. I wanted to feast on mini-corn.

I have worked out a quicker way to measure my plants, though, so it shouldn't take quite so long as it might otherwise to measure every single aspect of 120 bloody plants. I must be mad.

Lunch, then work.

I should also start writing this bloody thing.

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I think today is going to be a very Special day. I just burnt my spaghetti. As in it was on fire.

*sigh*

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1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next three sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, a girlie mag, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

"For all their similarities, the Roman counterpart of Artemis, Diana nemorensis, or "Diana of the Woods," was not the same goddess, at least not in origin. It used to be assumed that the Romans merely adopted Artemis and gave her a Latin name, but Diana was in fact an aboriginal Latin deity whose worship also goes back to prehistoric times. The Latin myth of the Golden Bough, which provided the impulse for Frazer's monumental The Golden Bough, is one of the indications of her indigenous antiquity."

If anyone knows what that's from, I'll buy them a pint.

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Three hours to measure and water the plants, and only the corn has germinated so I wasn't even measuring the barley. Yikes. But I am up-to-date on entering the data and most of the corn is above 30cm, a couple above 40, which is *very* exciting. Be excited.

I should go read some articles now but I'm not sure I can be bothered. I do have some photocopied already that I could start on.