I picked a bad time to check my email, because I have a paper due in a few hours and I just found out I have been accepted for an internship in Mozambique next summer!  I'm so excited!!! I want to learn Portuguese and maybe a few words in the local languages. Turns out I know how a song in Swahili form when I was a kid. I can't believe I remember ( Read more... )

Today, Kady, Deborah and I went to


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(Hopefully with a much happier ending than the movie)

Feeling rather unstoppable as a future marine biologist. Being awarded the SCTC scholarship really hammered home to me that I am doing a good job. Someone must believe in me, to give me some money! On Thursday I spent most of the afternoon at Loyola Marymount University doing urchin dissections ( Read more... )

The bad news is that I have another kidney infection. I am completely exhausted, feverish, in pain, and have little appetite. After dealing with internists who shook their heads at me I went to a urologist today. Just wanted to make sure it actually is a kidney infection since I keep having clean urine cultures, and I don't ever care to repeat the ( Read more... )

 Sweet, I got an A!

In truth, I think he gave everyone an A. Doc mentioned "everyone did EXCELLENT work, and I don't think I need to tell you what grade that translates into." In a way, that makes it a little less meaningful, but I know I deserved it. I was one of the only people checking on the invertebrate activity pattern study, I think I ( Read more... )

I am leaving tomorrow for San Diego, and then the next day for Baja California for two weeks. There is one telephone in the town I am going to and if you call it to leave a message, you had better speak Spanish. I'll be back August 1 or so. Try not to burn the state down while I'm away, ok?

I got into CSULB. It was the only school I applied for, seeing as it was my birthday and I had a week before admissions for most of the schools around here closed. And even though I want to get the hell out of Los Angeles, I know Jeff still has some things he needs to do in his career and I didn't want to move without him. Locally, UC Santa Barbara ( Read more... )

Tonight I had my first training session to volunteer at the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium ( Read more... )