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When I was in college I took a geology summer field course, which was de rigueur for going on to graduate school. I was a student at William and mary, which couldn't afford a program like that, so I went to the Indiana University field camp, which was very well respected. Of course most of the students were from Indiana, but there were a scattering of the rest of us as well. IU had a permanent camp with solid-sided buildings in the Tobacco Root mountains, even though it was only occupied in the summer. One thing that struck me though was that there were four students who were married at the time. It wasn't usual for undergraduates to already be married and I didn't know anybody who was then. But that wasn't the interesting thing. The four married students spent their spare time during the course fucking each other, even though each of them was married to somebody else who wasn't there. I really wonder how long they all stayed married afterwards. So that was a cocktail party tidbit I suppose, although I never went to cocktail parties. Years later, married myself, I went on a 2-month cruise on the scientific research vessel the JOIDES Resolution. Many of the scientists on the ship were married to people who weren't there, but the only people I knew who were screwing while on the ship were both married, and not to each other. who knew that soap operas were so realistic? Once again, I wonder if those people are still married to their spouses from the days when they were on Ocean drilling Program Cruise 123.