Man, I'm so tired. I've been playing racquetball with Wes, and he keeps beating me like everytime (sorry piece of crap.... joking). But I'm going to get better and one day I'll beat him. I'm just taking a break from doing meaningful stuff to jot down some thoughts. Still trying to finish up the Salamander paper (hopefully I'll look back, read this ( Read more... )

I might have found a grad school and the Gators pull off the unbelievable and win another National Championship!!!!! This is so freaking cool, I have my football jersey and my gator beanie stuffed animal and am so ready for next year already. Whoahoo! I love football.

So Friday, after work, I came home and checked my email. What did I find? I received an email from Dr. Dodd, saying that he had talked with Dr. Thomas Pauley from Marshall University in West Virginia. Dr. Pauley is interested is having me come to grad school under him according to Dr. Dodd!!!!! I was like totally speechless!!!!! A professor ( Read more... )

So I've finally gotten back to West Palm Beach after spending Christmas with my family up in Trenton. I went up on Thursday Dec. 22nd. Hanging with my cousins Brook and Brad (with Brad's fiance Leslie).  Me and my mom tried to get me a front grill guard from Southern Custom, but yet once again they messed things up, so I'll have to find a place ( Read more... )

Well this past week my old boss Kevin Enge came down to West Palm to give a presentation on doing herp trapping in the south FWC region. The meeting was on Monday and it went really well. After the meeting I helped him set up some turtle traps down at the South Florida Water Management District retention pond to remove some red-eared sliders ( ( Read more... )

Yeah, so all my pirate stuff is here!!! I have a spyglass (not so cool), a replica pistol (really absolutely amazing!!), replica pirate sword (well maybe not, but it's a cutlass from BudK Knives), my skeleton keys (they're close to authentic cause there real keys), and some pirate shackles (that I made myself!!!!). One of my friends at work, Pam, ( Read more... )

So this week was the first week that I opened up the herp arrays out on Corbett. I caught some stuff, but nothing absolutely amazing (narrow-mouth toads, garter snakes, cricket frog, leopard frogs, peninsula newt, amphiuma, and tadpoles). But it sure has kept me busy! On monday I worked for like 14 hours and tuesday was about 10 hours. Holy moley, ( Read more... )

Yeah so here's the deal. On Friday Jennifer and Jaime forwarded me this email about a Herp Field Technician position at the Talladega National Forest near Talladega, Alabama. The position is everything that I wanted to go to grad school for; the effects of forestry management practices on herps. The professor's website looks really cool and she is ( Read more... )

Things were starting to look good. All my paperwork was going through fine for my new job down at Corbett, my new roommate even called to invite me to go tailgating with him (although it is the same weekend that I'm coming down to West Palm Beach, so I don't think that will happen), Brook broke up with her piece of s#$% boyfriend......but when I ( Read more... )

I decided that this weekend I would go to church on Sunday. So the preacher was talking about worrying in religion, about how we could worry all we want, but we would have to put our faith in God. You cannot worry about everything, God will help you and watch over you. Perhaps this is why I am reluctant to totally accept God into my life, I'm ( Read more... )