*phew*
So it's been HELLA busy over here...so why am I writing this you ask? I am writing this because I have a midterm on Monday, and nothing says 'procrastination' like e-mail, facebook msn, and lj. Throw'em all together and you have a guaranteed guilty night. lol.
So honestly, too much stuff has been going on to give a full rundown. I'll hit the hilights though.
Lots of fieldtrips. Lots of sifting through tidepools and seine nets to find interesting little beasties to return to the lab and identify. and it is WONDERFUL. Seriously, all school should be like this. Except perhaps for the great big hike we had on thursday. :S I am still sore. 20km on the west coast trail. The purpose of the trip was to see a sea lion haulout. There were only 4 of them there, and they left after 5 minutes. >.< was still really neat though, because we ended up climbing down to the rocks and having a blast poking around in the tidepools. still though...that hike really ended up hurting. We left the centre at 8:30am and got back just efore 6pm. admittedly we stopped for about 1.5 hours at a lighthouse, and then for another hour or so at the haulout site...but still. it hurted.
There have obviously been lectures too, I also had a presentation and an assignment, but did well on both of them, so I'm happy. Also appear to be cooking with gas on my big project, Jess and I are partnered up for that one, we'll be diggine up lots of clams and catching lots of red rock crabs. No joke, we are going to be measuring how fast the clams dig. :D lol. riveting, I know. we are actually going to be stupidly busy later this week, most of the work for our project is in the set-up, which needs to happen like as soon as humanly possible. first we need to get our project approved by the animal care people though. Hopefully that'll happen quickly, and we'll be able to start collecting on Thursday.
There have been fun moments too! lol. There was a party last weekend...which was really fun on Saturday night, but Sunday morning was REALLY NOT FUN for me. ^_^;; there's the distinct possibility I was very hungover. *ahem* lol. Yesterday night was a big party for the whole town across the inlet on one of the beaches. definately fun, but sadly I got really chilled fairly early on in the night, and like a total idiot I forgot to bring some form of flashlight with me, AND I was purposefully staying really sober, so I perhaps did not have as much fun as I could've, although I still had a blast.
Anyhoo...supposedly I have this 'studying' thing to do...yeah...midterm on Monday. >.< and I haven't finished my notes yet. it is SO HARD TO FOCUS! *sigh* ah well. off I go...
So honestly, too much stuff has been going on to give a full rundown. I'll hit the hilights though.
Lots of fieldtrips. Lots of sifting through tidepools and seine nets to find interesting little beasties to return to the lab and identify. and it is WONDERFUL. Seriously, all school should be like this. Except perhaps for the great big hike we had on thursday. :S I am still sore. 20km on the west coast trail. The purpose of the trip was to see a sea lion haulout. There were only 4 of them there, and they left after 5 minutes. >.< was still really neat though, because we ended up climbing down to the rocks and having a blast poking around in the tidepools. still though...that hike really ended up hurting. We left the centre at 8:30am and got back just efore 6pm. admittedly we stopped for about 1.5 hours at a lighthouse, and then for another hour or so at the haulout site...but still. it hurted.
There have obviously been lectures too, I also had a presentation and an assignment, but did well on both of them, so I'm happy. Also appear to be cooking with gas on my big project, Jess and I are partnered up for that one, we'll be diggine up lots of clams and catching lots of red rock crabs. No joke, we are going to be measuring how fast the clams dig. :D lol. riveting, I know. we are actually going to be stupidly busy later this week, most of the work for our project is in the set-up, which needs to happen like as soon as humanly possible. first we need to get our project approved by the animal care people though. Hopefully that'll happen quickly, and we'll be able to start collecting on Thursday.
There have been fun moments too! lol. There was a party last weekend...which was really fun on Saturday night, but Sunday morning was REALLY NOT FUN for me. ^_^;; there's the distinct possibility I was very hungover. *ahem* lol. Yesterday night was a big party for the whole town across the inlet on one of the beaches. definately fun, but sadly I got really chilled fairly early on in the night, and like a total idiot I forgot to bring some form of flashlight with me, AND I was purposefully staying really sober, so I perhaps did not have as much fun as I could've, although I still had a blast.
Anyhoo...supposedly I have this 'studying' thing to do...yeah...midterm on Monday. >.< and I haven't finished my notes yet. it is SO HARD TO FOCUS! *sigh* ah well. off I go...