So the first thing Melissa says to me when I get in today is "We have a situation. Digit's gone MIA."

Apparently sometime late afternoon/early evening yesterday Digit just ... vanished. She was put back in her cage after presentation. Two people verified that they saw her in the cage at 4:30. But at 7pm, the Education people still in the ( Read more... )

HOORAY this week is crunch time for last-minute Christmas presents. I have managed not to mess up, and for the most part the customers are pretty laid-back and I haven't encountered any crazies yet. (Something must be wrong.) However, I work Christmas Eve so maybe I'll get wild-eyed desperate people that day ( Read more... )

Some of the animals at the Aquarium looked soooo cute yesterday, I snapped pictures with my phone.

( Dipstick and Cupcake. But not together. That would end badly. )

Since I didn't have to work today, I can definitively say I survived working retail during Black Friday and its immediate weekend. Customers were actually not as angry/harried/rushed/mean as I feared they would be. Maybe it helps that I don't work in a gigantic technology warehouse that has a limited amount of $300 TVs and laptops ( Read more... )

Today I found a frog in a box of lightbulbs.

Miraculously (I don't know how long it was there), it was still alive!

I have no idea how it got there.

-- have been alerted to Apple's newest Nano design. NOOO FUCK YOU APPLE, WHY CAN'T YOU PRODUCE A SUITABLE REPLACEMENT FOR MY OLD NANO

[I am changing out the ice packs beneath the banana slug tanks ( Read more... )

There's a Russian warship docked in San Francisco this week "in the spirit of friendship." Sadly I didn't get to see it because I didn't realize Pier 30-32 is south of the Bay Bridge. Pity; it looks pretty cool in the photos ( Read more... )

Some of the adorable little dudes I get to take care of/clean cages of/play with as time allows at the Aquarium.

( As a warning: if you don't like reptiles, there are reptiles. )

I was going to complain about how disgusting this cold makes me -- today it is less painful, but quite a bit more disgusting -- but instead I will write about the interesting day at work yesterday ( Read more... )

Nothing kicks me out of feeling gloomy and anxious than the arrival of the Montepellier handbook. OMG, I am still so excited and I literally squeak whenever I get something in the mail. :DD I'm also pretty nervous about the prospect of spending 9 months in a foreign country but... well. I don't know how I'll feel when I actually get there. Now ( Read more... )