ooo, an entry!
this is going to be a fairly long post, so don't read if you're not intersted...which i know most of you AREN'T!
i'll start off with saying that i got into UCF.
but i am really waiting to hear back from UF, and i've actually started thinking about library science, possibly. maybe become an archivist, or the impossible dream of a curator. idk, just sounds like fun.
i also have an interview with publix on monday, my parents are really proud and im just glad to have them off of my back. then sandy (my aunt's friend) called last night and she stopped by to look up ticket prices to fly out to colorado over spring break, and unbeknownst to me my parents had agreed to let me go out to colorado with her at the end of march. i'm happy that i get to go, but if i do get hired at publix, it'll be a bitch to say, "btw, i need a week off next month." maybe i'll try to get out of going to colorado. omg, i can't believe i just said that.
i got these pictures a long time ago, but i've just been too lazy to post them. they're from the suncoast primate sanctuary which was previously the chimp farm up in tarpon springs. someone took it over and renovated it and they take in abused, neglected or unwanted primates. you'd be surprised how many are bought over the black market and turned into personal pets, but then they reach sexual maturity and they become really aggressive and the owners don't want them anymore. some owners go as far as having the animal's nails and teeth ripped out. it was really sad because some of the monkeys had to have their food pre-mashed for them because they couldn't chew, they no longer had any teeth. the sanctuary also had snakes, goats, a chicken, some dogs, alligators, and a retired dancing bear. they also brought out their two year old chimp named Bobby and let us play with him.
two large boas whose owners actually helped build their little containment home at the sanctuary. at least someone loves their pets.
this is Otto, their 500-something pound gorilla whose left lung is nonfunctional. he's also the original gorilla of the samson luggage commercial, or something like that.
orangutang
this is cheetah who stared in one of the early tarzan movies, and actually out lived the actor he costared with. Cheetah is 75.
cheetah again.
squirrel monkey!
some more monkeys...
AND THIS IS BOBBY! (the star of this pic post)
they let Nina and I feed him. it was so weird because he was so human and he loved to play like a little kid and his hand felt like little kid's and he had the whitest teeth i have ever seen.
bobby getting his hair groomed by phil.
bobby playing with lucky, the guard dog. it was so cute because lucky is fairly old, but he plays very nicely and gently with bobby, who likes to pull on lucky's hair and ride on his back.
and then bobby jumped onto my back as we were walking around finishing our tour!
he was so cool, i was really depressed when we had to leave. but when Nina and i were walking out of the gates, Cheetah and some of the other apes were clapping for us. or clapping that we were leaving. but i fondly like to think it was the first reason.
these are just two pics of me at the Gaylord Palms ICE!show, which was completely lame. if you didn't go, you can release that long sigh of disappointment you've been holding. i'm just glad we didn't have to pay, because ticket prices were $20, and it was absolutely ridiculous.
weird teeth picture.
i also redid my layout, LOOK AT IT!. went and saw Chronicles of Narnia again with my sisters. loved it even more the second time. Chronicles comes out in April and Harry Potter: GOF comes out in march. i need to go preorder them.
k, now i'm off to IMAGO to help bag magazines.
i'll start off with saying that i got into UCF.
but i am really waiting to hear back from UF, and i've actually started thinking about library science, possibly. maybe become an archivist, or the impossible dream of a curator. idk, just sounds like fun.
i also have an interview with publix on monday, my parents are really proud and im just glad to have them off of my back. then sandy (my aunt's friend) called last night and she stopped by to look up ticket prices to fly out to colorado over spring break, and unbeknownst to me my parents had agreed to let me go out to colorado with her at the end of march. i'm happy that i get to go, but if i do get hired at publix, it'll be a bitch to say, "btw, i need a week off next month." maybe i'll try to get out of going to colorado. omg, i can't believe i just said that.
i got these pictures a long time ago, but i've just been too lazy to post them. they're from the suncoast primate sanctuary which was previously the chimp farm up in tarpon springs. someone took it over and renovated it and they take in abused, neglected or unwanted primates. you'd be surprised how many are bought over the black market and turned into personal pets, but then they reach sexual maturity and they become really aggressive and the owners don't want them anymore. some owners go as far as having the animal's nails and teeth ripped out. it was really sad because some of the monkeys had to have their food pre-mashed for them because they couldn't chew, they no longer had any teeth. the sanctuary also had snakes, goats, a chicken, some dogs, alligators, and a retired dancing bear. they also brought out their two year old chimp named Bobby and let us play with him.
two large boas whose owners actually helped build their little containment home at the sanctuary. at least someone loves their pets.
this is Otto, their 500-something pound gorilla whose left lung is nonfunctional. he's also the original gorilla of the samson luggage commercial, or something like that.
orangutang
this is cheetah who stared in one of the early tarzan movies, and actually out lived the actor he costared with. Cheetah is 75.
cheetah again.
squirrel monkey!
some more monkeys...
AND THIS IS BOBBY! (the star of this pic post)
they let Nina and I feed him. it was so weird because he was so human and he loved to play like a little kid and his hand felt like little kid's and he had the whitest teeth i have ever seen.
bobby getting his hair groomed by phil.
bobby playing with lucky, the guard dog. it was so cute because lucky is fairly old, but he plays very nicely and gently with bobby, who likes to pull on lucky's hair and ride on his back.
and then bobby jumped onto my back as we were walking around finishing our tour!
he was so cool, i was really depressed when we had to leave. but when Nina and i were walking out of the gates, Cheetah and some of the other apes were clapping for us. or clapping that we were leaving. but i fondly like to think it was the first reason.
these are just two pics of me at the Gaylord Palms ICE!show, which was completely lame. if you didn't go, you can release that long sigh of disappointment you've been holding. i'm just glad we didn't have to pay, because ticket prices were $20, and it was absolutely ridiculous.
weird teeth picture.
i also redid my layout, LOOK AT IT!. went and saw Chronicles of Narnia again with my sisters. loved it even more the second time. Chronicles comes out in April and Harry Potter: GOF comes out in march. i need to go preorder them.
k, now i'm off to IMAGO to help bag magazines.