Carnivalling

Just as I was starting to worry about the state of the Accretionary Wedge, we’ve had not one but two calls for posts this week. Over at Geology News, Dave Schumaker will be hosting a late late November edition, and wants us to tell of our favorite places to do field work. Entries need to be in by this Sunday, and I went a little pretentious with mine…
Meanwhile. the real December edition is being hosted by Kenneth Clark at the perplexingly-named Office of Redundancy Office, with the theme of “Recent Advancements” (recent and/or noteable advancements that have directly affected your expertise, interests, or the work you do). Entries should be in by Christmas Eve, or he might just post a lump of coal instead.
In the meantime, you might want to check out the (Totally Hot) December Issue of Scientae being hosted by Dr. Isis, not least because her request for explanations why “My Science is Hotter than Dr. Isis’s Naughty Monkeys Because…” was addressed pretty emphatically in the geoblogosphere with variations on a theme of “Because we do geology. Duh”. Oh, and we have better shoes, too (Naughty Monkeys are apparently footwear of some description, but I suspect that they’re about as far from all-terrain footwear as you can get).