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Professor Diana Carter Engelwood looked at the five graduate students who had volunteered to help her with the sea turtle project at Sapelo Island.
Vicky and Todd Ingram were a recently married couple both of whom she'd taught since they were Juniors. Sam Lacey was a big black fellow from Jamaica and one of the rising stars in the Marine Biology program at UF. Tracie Toles was also big, unfortunaely not in the right way but she was Diana's good right hand and had been with her on Sapelo for the past three summers.
That left David Lucas. He was an inigma to her.
He had moved into the program late but showed a real zeal for learning. His marks though were erratic, a briliant paper, followed by a dismal test score or the other way around.
He was quiet in class with few friends that she knew of and she'd been surprised when she got his email saying he would join the Sapelo field trip.
"Ok Guys, the quarters are up there, so let's get going!"
She waved at the launch that brought them outas it headed into the sound. They wouldn't see it again for a week.
The big house was a weathered storm beaten clapboard affair with only the bare essentials for survival much less any real comfort.
A generator that provided a source of electricity was it's only acknowledement of modern times.
On the wide porch they stopped and she assigned them rooms. Vicky and Todd the big bedroom upstairs. Sam and David each with a smaller upstairs room. Tracie had the spare room downstairs and Diana would sleep in the little bungalow that stood right next to the main house.
"OK guys let's get unpacked, I'm going to fire up the generator."
This is a story of obsession...
A closed thread for Chanaud and I, and before anyone says...not another thread for Ari?!...know that we are giving up "EuroRail" because we have become OBSESSED!
Vicky and Todd Ingram were a recently married couple both of whom she'd taught since they were Juniors. Sam Lacey was a big black fellow from Jamaica and one of the rising stars in the Marine Biology program at UF. Tracie Toles was also big, unfortunaely not in the right way but she was Diana's good right hand and had been with her on Sapelo for the past three summers.
That left David Lucas. He was an inigma to her.
He had moved into the program late but showed a real zeal for learning. His marks though were erratic, a briliant paper, followed by a dismal test score or the other way around.
He was quiet in class with few friends that she knew of and she'd been surprised when she got his email saying he would join the Sapelo field trip.
"Ok Guys, the quarters are up there, so let's get going!"
She waved at the launch that brought them outas it headed into the sound. They wouldn't see it again for a week.
The big house was a weathered storm beaten clapboard affair with only the bare essentials for survival much less any real comfort.
A generator that provided a source of electricity was it's only acknowledement of modern times.
On the wide porch they stopped and she assigned them rooms. Vicky and Todd the big bedroom upstairs. Sam and David each with a smaller upstairs room. Tracie had the spare room downstairs and Diana would sleep in the little bungalow that stood right next to the main house.
"OK guys let's get unpacked, I'm going to fire up the generator."
This is a story of obsession...
A closed thread for Chanaud and I, and before anyone says...not another thread for Ari?!...know that we are giving up "EuroRail" because we have become OBSESSED!