And the winner is...
By far, Jessa has the best updates of any livejournaler around. She's got photos and great stories and cute one-liners. I love her updates as much as I love her!
I saw an AWESOME documentary on hiking the AT. The cameras were right on the trail following different hikers and interviewing them. It was good advice to listen to, plus it gave me good visuals of what the trail is really like. I missed part of the show, but I saw the trail from Tennessee to West Virginia. It was really cool and really inspiring. I'm slowly accumulating all my items I'll need. I've got a list and am always comparing brands to get the best (and lightest-weighing) things I need. Now I am also thinking I should get a dog...a big one...and that way I would have a hiking companion. I'd have to account for carrying dogfood...but that's alright. I think it would be great protection, love, and motivation to have a hiking dog with me. A lot of the people on the trail had one...which was cool. And Jessa's photos of Macy just reinforce my idea also. She's got an awesome dog! I want one of those.
So I've been talking with Dan the last couple weeks. I would like to move in with him in like February. There's that awesome fish study job in CT. And there is all the comfort of Dan and being taken care of. He wants me to move now and find a po-dunk job for the winter. But I've got a job here...and Pioneer is better than some crappy filler job. Why can't I just work here through the winter and then move? He doesn't like that idea. So we try and work things out between us, but I will admit it is hard when we are both in different states. You can't mend a relationship from long distance. I really really want to try, but it seems he isn't as willing. I don't know what to do really. I know what I want, I just can't reach it.
Right now I am reading Madame Bovary...which is alright. I like books written back in the 1800's, so I naturally like this one. And this one was pretty risque for it's time and got some criticism...so it's fun to read now and see what people didn't tolerate back then...since nowadays, this story would be no big deal.
I'm also reading A Million Little Pieces by James Frey. I would recommend this one also...it was written real recently. It's James' story of going to drug and alcohol rehab at age 23 for six weeks and what he deals with. It's gross and sad and hopeful.
Pioneer is still marvelous. I've learned PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) this week. Oh yeah! Who knew this stuff was way cooler in practice then in class? So now I'm doing PCR and gel elecrophoresis up the ying yang. And isolating RNA, making complimentary strands of DNA, shelling corn, counting kernels, and maintaining my 10 experiments (Count them...10!) in the greenhouse. It's a lot to juggle, but I'm awesome...so I do it quite well!
And so you all know...I cleaned my 30 gallon and 20 gallon this week...and they are so sparkly. I am so proud of myself...I did a great cleaning job this time, and I also added new shells and terra cotta pots to the tanks, so there are new obstacles for the fish. I gotta enrich their lives, you know! The two ten gallons will be cleaned tomorrow.
Hasta luego!
And I still enjoy hanging out
I saw an AWESOME documentary on hiking the AT. The cameras were right on the trail following different hikers and interviewing them. It was good advice to listen to, plus it gave me good visuals of what the trail is really like. I missed part of the show, but I saw the trail from Tennessee to West Virginia. It was really cool and really inspiring. I'm slowly accumulating all my items I'll need. I've got a list and am always comparing brands to get the best (and lightest-weighing) things I need. Now I am also thinking I should get a dog...a big one...and that way I would have a hiking companion. I'd have to account for carrying dogfood...but that's alright. I think it would be great protection, love, and motivation to have a hiking dog with me. A lot of the people on the trail had one...which was cool. And Jessa's photos of Macy just reinforce my idea also. She's got an awesome dog! I want one of those.
So I've been talking with Dan the last couple weeks. I would like to move in with him in like February. There's that awesome fish study job in CT. And there is all the comfort of Dan and being taken care of. He wants me to move now and find a po-dunk job for the winter. But I've got a job here...and Pioneer is better than some crappy filler job. Why can't I just work here through the winter and then move? He doesn't like that idea. So we try and work things out between us, but I will admit it is hard when we are both in different states. You can't mend a relationship from long distance. I really really want to try, but it seems he isn't as willing. I don't know what to do really. I know what I want, I just can't reach it.
Right now I am reading Madame Bovary...which is alright. I like books written back in the 1800's, so I naturally like this one. And this one was pretty risque for it's time and got some criticism...so it's fun to read now and see what people didn't tolerate back then...since nowadays, this story would be no big deal.
I'm also reading A Million Little Pieces by James Frey. I would recommend this one also...it was written real recently. It's James' story of going to drug and alcohol rehab at age 23 for six weeks and what he deals with. It's gross and sad and hopeful.
Pioneer is still marvelous. I've learned PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) this week. Oh yeah! Who knew this stuff was way cooler in practice then in class? So now I'm doing PCR and gel elecrophoresis up the ying yang. And isolating RNA, making complimentary strands of DNA, shelling corn, counting kernels, and maintaining my 10 experiments (Count them...10!) in the greenhouse. It's a lot to juggle, but I'm awesome...so I do it quite well!
And so you all know...I cleaned my 30 gallon and 20 gallon this week...and they are so sparkly. I am so proud of myself...I did a great cleaning job this time, and I also added new shells and terra cotta pots to the tanks, so there are new obstacles for the fish. I gotta enrich their lives, you know! The two ten gallons will be cleaned tomorrow.
Hasta luego!
And I still enjoy hanging out