Dancing Around the Four Sides

I'm sorry to hear you're having trouble sleeping. Hopefully the hot-flash cycle will ease off! As for Chango, if possible you might want to take her to the vet. It could be nothing, but there are any number of things which could cause a behavioural change like that, from failing eyesight to an infection lurking somewhere.

In re: collecting methods -- I'm not surprised at their barbarity. Some collecting consisted of literally killing and eating the last specimen of something. D: Usually by 1940 methods were considerably more sophisticated, so Steinbeck's experience was obviously with a ham-fisted moron.