Currently Listening The Lost Christmas Eve By Trans-Siberian Orchestra see related

Happy Belated Thanksgiving and premature Merry Christmas to you!

I am so ready for Christmas break that I cannot even begin to explain.  I spent all of Thanksgiving break working on presentations and reports and such...I didn't even go home :(   I am so extra-time-deprived that I'm making an entire list of things that I want to do over break that I don't have time for now.  It's already a page long and I just had to start a second column.

Mmm, and I'm listening to Christmas music right now and counting down the days 'til finals are done!  Ah yes, which reminds me- after Friday, December 22 at noon I will be DONE with CHEMISTRY!! *filled with glee*  I am switching my minor from chemistry AND german to just german.  Organic chem pretty much solidly made up my mind that I hate it and could hardly endure another semester of it. 

Next semester should be a lot nicer than this one.  I'll be taking two 400 level bio courses (animal behavior, and cell bio) and german 352 and sociology of gender.  That sociology class was basically my last choice but it was the only one that fit and filled one of my last gen. ed. requirements so... one does what one must...  But I found a friend to take it with me, so it might just be endurable.  I don't want to stretch it and say fun.  Maybe I'll actually have time to have friends again...  One can hope.

Well, time is escaping as I type, so I'd best say ta-ta!  Best of luck with your day's endeavors!

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Currently Listening Who We Are Instead By Jars of Clay see related

So I'm pretty much in need of an update real bad like.  So basically school seems to be royally kicking my butt.  It's so hard to stay on top of all these classes!  18 credits in biology/chemistry is kind of like death-on-a-transcript.  I told myself when I signed up for classes and signed on to work during the year that I could just NOT have a social life...who needs that anyway, right?  Wrong.  I have tried, but I just can't do it.  Hermitage is just not for me.  I can't stay holed up in my room in front of the books or computer.  I've even seriously considered changing like my life direction to include working more with people (and not so much with animals) because I just like us so much.  Probably I won't do anything drastic like that in the career choice department though.  I wouldn't even know what to do.  Sometimes I wonder if it's bad to think that it doesn't really matter what I choose to do because no matter what, it's just a life that will be over before we know it anyhow.  Whatever I'm doing can turn out well.  However, this concept probably doesn't apply to my genetics test tomorrow...*cringe*  I'd better do a little bit more cramming. 

Ciao!

So I pretty much haven't updated in a long time.  Since last post, about my dog, we've, um, gotten some answers to his whereabouts.  Someone shot him.  And threw him into the woods at the end of our driveway for us to find when we started to smell something awful (it was an absolutely detestable experience.)  We know who it was and why, but I'm sooo not even going to go there.  It makes me sick to even think about, so I don't, nor do I speak of it.  I just don't want to relive it every time I have to explain.  Therefore, moving on... 

Right at this very moment, I'm on a huge research vessel with the EPA (that's Environmental Protection Agency) for like 9 days in the middle of Lake Michigan and then heading to Lake Huron and ending in Detroit.  We collect all kinds of water, different types of plankton (tiny water animals), and benthic sediment (mud from the bottom) samples.  I must say, it's been one of the more interesting things I've done for work so far (understatement of the year!)  :)  This is my third day out here.  I have to work a 12 hour shift every day, starting at noon and going until midnight!  At first I almost really didn't like this whole thing because I had NO idea what the heck I was doing, but now I've basically gotten the hang of  everything and they even let me do a zooplankton collection by myself   I got called a "real scientist" today too!  Yeah, I'm a nerd, but I've come to accept it :)   Ugh, I DID get pretty sea sick yesterday though.  We had to go crosswise into the waves and the boat was just pitching back and forth.  It was only for like an hour though and then once we left the sampling site we got back on the waves' good side again.  There are some of the most amazing sunsets out here though!  I'll put up some pictures when I get back (i forgot my camera cable...)  It's super much made me appreciate God's creative genius.  :)  However, I've got to be going...the morning rolls around soon and I'm NOT ready for it yet...

Take care!!  (and if anyone feels like it, you can email me out here...it get's sorta boring and lonely during my off shifts )

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In Mourning

My dog ran away last thursday and he hasn't come home yet.  We're pretty sure he's not ever coming back.  I'm still in denial.  I've been house-sitting all week too, so I haven't even been home yet but I'm afraid when I do and he's not there it's going to be horrible.  It just won't be home without getting out of the car to the please-pet-me-whining and nuzzling and sticks being thrown at my feet to throw for fetching.  I'm going to stinking miss him like crazy.  I never imagined that I'd get emotional over a dog.  *grieve and lament*  This is (was) Sparky: