There's a Mosquito on your face!

Yeah, all my friends get bitten by bugs at my study site. I always feel so bad. I do go by myself, but whenever I say, "oh yeah I gotta go do my people watching activity sometime soon," usually its something just to do at the moment and someone comes with me. But get they mosquito bitten in the process. 

A friend and I smoked there today. I actually never really see anyone smoke a cigarette there too often (or I'm blind and can't see that far) but I do see the leftover butts on the ground meaning that people do. 

It's been cold, hot, cold, hot outside; I hate it. Just stay cold or just stay hot. For awhile it was just tons of rain, but then as soon as I go out to conduct another study it's extremely hot. I walked by it going to the tailgate and it's just like, ugh sweat, gross. I should have gone in the rain. It's gorgeous to watch rain hit still water. Plus I could have seen if more or less people go when it's raining with umbrellas or not. 

Today though we saw families with children probably camping out from the tailgate fishing there. They had their fishing poles and the lines in the water. There were a couple of adults and quite a few young children running around every now and then standing trying to fish until the attention span reached a plateau. They had lawn chairs and coolers which is why I figured they are camping out still from the recent game (which was really depressing). Are there actually fish in there? Either way I kinda doubt you could take them but I don't know. I feel like there's little to no fish in there. I'm usually wrong but hey. I mean it's just so dirty, I don't feel like fish would be in there. .  There's a whole trash can floating in there with plenty of trash and grime floating around. I'm not about to go pick it up though... I'm horrible. I apologize. 

Does anyone pick it up? I feel like someone does, otherwise there would be way more stuff in it. I never leave my trash anywhere though. not even that cigarette butt; I threw it away. I'm not completely horrible but let's not throw trash, much less recyclable items into the pond. 

Still there's always the usual visitors that sit and talk or eat on the picnic tables, or the benches, or on the grass near the pond. A lot of people like the side with them bridge I've noticed. There's a dry concrete area that struts out from the ground sort of underneath the bridge that people like to stand on. I have yet to go to the other side. I haven't even walked across the bridge. I definitely have some bucket list items for my site.

QM