Recap: The day is done

First-

-time interviewing a college professor (for an assignment, of course, since I don't interview adults just randomly). Prof. Dave Rizzo, actually, who happens to be the discoverer of Sudden Oak Death disease and is an almost celebrity at some points (CNN coverage and all). Half an hour interview and some chat afterwards and let me have a geeky moment (ha) and say that plant virology is very awesome. (No, the oak disease is caused by a..an almost-fungi, this isn't completely related to the topic at hand.) It covers plant genetics, biochem, microbio, and ecology. And depending on what you do you might get to learn stuff such as meteorology. I am no saner nor insaner than normal, thank you, and I'll go and do something productive now except I should mention this:

I brought along my recorder/mp3player today because I can't write that fast so I thought a recorder would help (if allowed, which he did, which was very nice of him), so last night I was thorougly cleaning out the stuff there because I have no idea how long the interview will last or what format I'll need to record it in (some format takes up more space than others but is necessary if, say, the room's noisy). And I found some very interesting things. 1. I found the another track of Lucy, in LA, sounding even MORE drunk than the last clip and this time with Kate saying "you're going to be SO embarressed by this in the morning" in the background (such subtility, Kate. AHEM). 2. I found a track that's over an hour long.

Yeah, I was, to say the least, surprised.

What seemed to have happened was that when it didn't stop after the first clip when I pressed 'stop" but got on a new track somehow. I didn't know it was on, so (remember?) I appeared to be playing with the recording during this entire thing so there're some very bad distortions, where my fingers touched the microphone. I'll be trying to straighten that out eventually but...over an HOUR track!
That would explain the state of the battery the next day. Huh.

In response to Lucy's comment:
Yes, why on God's green earth indeed. Hem.