Archive for July, 2008

Fighting the Angries

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

I would like to begin this post by professing my undying love and devotion to Cesar Millan. Check out how he got to the States (click the link). Pretty crazy. Also recently added to my list of Subjects of Undying Love and Devotion: Gary Oldman. I saw The Dark Knight this [...]

Would kill for a cupcake.

Monday, July 21st, 2008

Some thoughts:

The AJC posted this article today. I’m inclined to shake my fist with the other angry biologists in the article. Is it really a good idea to put giant aquatic creatures in a tank when we know so little about their behavior/biology/physiology? My other beef with the GA Aquarium is that [...]

Joy to the world

Friday, July 18th, 2008

Josh found this picture somewhere out on the internet, and it makes me so stupidly happy for some reason. I have to share it. This is the very definition of joy–forgive my anthropomorphism, but this is definitely a gleeful turtle.

This picture now graces my desktop, simply because it makes me smile.

Coping mechanism

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Hoo boy, work has been ridiculous lately. Too much work and not enough of us to do it. Now that my group is down to two people, I’m getting really annoyed at being on call every other week. On average I get called once a day, but last time there was one [...]

Red and cute and AWESOME

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

Two things we did this past weekend:
Painted our dining room.
I’ve been wanting to paint our dining room RED! for awhile. Not just a little red, but RED!. So we scrounged up some free time this weekend, bought the paint, and started painted. I wish I had a before picture, but I forgot [...]

Post-California recap

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

It’s kind of been an eventful week since I last wrote. Where to start?
I spent most of last Friday in San Francisco–my last full day of my trip. We got out of class at noon, so I headed up to San Fran to check it out. I went first to Fisherman’s Wharf, [...]