So let's start with May 2010.
May 2010: Early May I went out with a local friend with the hopes of possibly finding a milksnake, but no such luck.
June 2010: Mid-June the same local friend and I headed down to the southeast corner of the state for some critters.
July 2010: July 4th weekend my fiancée and I did a repeat of the prior month's southeast trip, only for us to be rained out. A few days later we'd head over to the Silver city area to attend the NMDG&F Commission Meeting with regards to NM's asinine law pertaining to importation of "exotic" species into the state. After being laid off (company went 4 mil into red) mid-month, my best friend took me out to one of his box turtle research plots utilized for his PhD work. A few days after I'd meet up with a lurker from the Midwest for some hoggie hunting.
August 2010: Around mid-August I'd meet up with Pierson Hill and his father in an attempt to get Pierson his lifer prairie, something we'd knock out minutes after we split up to cover ground road cruising. Again, days later I'd depart for another, new in this instance, location with my best friend and my new found free time compliments of the previous month in tow.
September 2010: Climbing the walls still unemployed, September started a week long trip to the southwest corner of NM, with a side jaunt into southeast AZ. I'd start out with meeting up with Crazins (Marisa) where I'd find her her lifer mexican hoggie, we'd shortly be joined up with my best friend (Ian) on his way out to desert tort research plots in AZ. The 3 of us would feebly strike out on an obscure animal. Marisa would leave us as she had to head back north for work for a few days. Ian and I would tool around in NM, where he and I would be accompanied with TimCo (Tim Warfel) and ErikNM (Erik McCormick) before Ian left for AZ. Tim, Erik, and myself would wind up hitting our target species (found by Tim) the morning Ian left for AZ. Having hit our NM target species, we'd book it for a wonderful mexican restaurant for horchatas and then north to spend the night a currently blazed SE AZ mountain range. From there we'd head up to Silver City to meet up with Marisa in hopes of scoring her a klauberi. I'd cut the fun short as I had to get back home to do some job searching/applying to meet my requirements of unemployment (I was at week 3 of it and though I know others have had it worse, I'd go to 10 weeks, over 50 jobs applied nationally [tough market for people with BS in Bio...and anyone for that matter], and only have 1 interview).
EDIT: typos
Talk about herping ethics, you sir need to read the sticky thread at the top of the forum. 
