[Artemisia] You know you've been in Artemisia when...

[L.J. Richards]

Therisa,
just gotta love it!  my most remembered blooper was when working for an 
attorney who took in a partner with whom I did not see eye to eye.  (I 
really did try to scrunch down to his eye level but it was difficult - he 
had such a short mind....)  In getting out his brief on Friday (due at 
courthouse for filing before 4 p.m. Friday) because he waited to do it as 
usual, I corrected the typo on the original - filed in the clerk's office, I 
corrected the office copy, was interupted by a phonecall, forgot to do the 
rest (6 ccs - this, kids, is before computers....).  The word was "suit" - I 
typed an 'h' instead of a 'u'.  He was tee-oed, everyone else, including the 
judge, thought it was funny.  There is more to the story but that should 
suffice for now.

Bronwen of I.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "drchelm" <no1home at onewest.net>
To: <artemisia at lists.gallowglass.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 12:09 AM
Subject: [Artemisia] You know you've been in Artemisia when...


>
> There's a place on the Snake River, not too far from where Coronation was 
> at, called Thousand Springs.  It's where the Snake River Aquifer 
> discharges out of the basalt-sided cliffs in the canyon of the Snake River 
> near Hagerman, west of Twin Falls.  Let me digress briefly on this 
> aquifer.  It is the largest basalt-hosted aquifer in the world, and also 
> the most prolific.  The bulk of the snowpac that falls on the Beaverheads, 
> Tetons, Grand Targhees and Yellowstone melts and gets sucked out of the 
> forks of the Snake River and into the aquifer.  That's a lot of water, 
> folks, and since most of the world's french fries are grown using this 
> resource, the aquifer is pretty important, not just to folks in Idaho, but 
> to fast-food lovers everywhere.
>
> So what does this have to do with Artemisia?  Well, I'm getting there. 
> Patience, bubula, patience...
>
> As you may or may not know, I spend most of my days at work thinking deep 
> meaningful thoughts about the rocks that host the Snake River Aquifer. 
> That's a lot of rocks, all of the East Snake River Plain, in fact.  You 
> may find it hard to believe that a big boring pile of basalt with some 
> water in it captivates my days, but hey, it beats working for a living... 
> ;-)
>
> So what does this have to do with Artemisia?  Well, I'm getting there. 
> Patience, bubula, patience...
>
> Now, lately, things have been looking kinda glum around our house.  There 
> was a death in my family recently, and though it was not a great surprise 
> at the end of a long illness, it still managed to throw me for a loop, 
> enough so that I was not able to get to Denver last week to give a paper 
> on that big boring pile of basalt.  I really wanted to give that paper. 
> It would have been a show stopper.  I have evidence that not too long ago, 
> the Big Lost River had an entirely different route than the one it has 
> today.  Now, this route I've found cuts south across the plain, UNDER the 
> Craters of the Moon, where there is no water today, and then southwest to 
> the Snake River.  The place where this abandoned river channel meets up 
> with the Snake River is at Thousand Springs, where the modern aquifer 
> cascades out of the cliffs and into the river.
>
> So what does this have to do with Artemisia?  Well, I'm getting there. 
> Patience, bubula, patience...
>
> If the hypothesized abandoned river channel is real, it has the potential 
> of rewriting the geologic history of the East Snake River Plain.  I really 
> wanted to give this paper at the meeting in Denver.  I won't have another 
> opportunity to present this research until next May. To stay productive 
> until then, I need to churn out my results and get them published.  Since 
> last Wednesday, I've taken my presentation materials and converted them 
> into 50 pages of a draft journal article.  I gave my collaborators copies, 
> which most have read.
>
> So what does this have to do with Artemisia?  Well, we're finally there. 
> Here's a quote that everyone noticed from the draft article:
>
> "...there may be channel deposits in the subsurface extending from the 
> town of Arco, under the Craters of the Moon, and westward towards the 
> discharge area of the Snake River Aquifer at Thousand Eyes."
>
> I'm never going to hear the end of this at work...
>
> ttfn
> Therasia von AwesomeTypos
>
>
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