My mom's taking surfing lessons on Friday so I told her I'd post these
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Thursday, October 15, 2009
When Benadryl Stops Working
I went camping a couple weekends ago and had an allergic reaction to something on the spoil islands in the Indian River Lagoon. It wasn't fun, and resulted in a butt shot, prescription sleepy pills, and oatmeal baths. (oh, and well over $100 from my bank account.)
Last weekend Joshua and I ventured to the great state of Minnesota. We encountered beautiful fall weather, cold winter weather, my brother (surprise!), manute (surprise!), meggin' (surprise!), bubba, comet, the whole ripple gang, and plenty of snow.
In the academic world, I'm starting to try to think about what I'm interested in... like what I really want to study. I think I want to study tsunamis. Or ocean-type disasters. maybe? maybe not. Technically I'm a "physical oceanography" major, but I'm working in a "biological oceanography" lab right now. It makes life interesting. I'm going to be in charge of all the Walton Smith trip plankton tow sampling next week, so maybe that will help me get excited about something as well.
-September "Lab Worker of the Month"
Last weekend Joshua and I ventured to the great state of Minnesota. We encountered beautiful fall weather, cold winter weather, my brother (surprise!), manute (surprise!), meggin' (surprise!), bubba, comet, the whole ripple gang, and plenty of snow.
In the academic world, I'm starting to try to think about what I'm interested in... like what I really want to study. I think I want to study tsunamis. Or ocean-type disasters. maybe? maybe not. Technically I'm a "physical oceanography" major, but I'm working in a "biological oceanography" lab right now. It makes life interesting. I'm going to be in charge of all the Walton Smith trip plankton tow sampling next week, so maybe that will help me get excited about something as well.
-September "Lab Worker of the Month"
Thursday, October 1, 2009
cyprids and surfing
Dear Ocean,
This week in lab we've started a chart that we're supposed to fill out whenever we work. There's columns that read "name, hours worked, description of work, etc." to help the grad student and Dr. Johnson decide on who will be Lab Worker of the Month. I hope I win. As I was writing down that I helped Holly and saved some barnacles from death, I saw Aaron's latest entry which read "Killed the rain forest to save the oceans." It also said in parentheses, (cleaned the floor with papertowels). At least someone else has a sense of humor about the whole working-in-the-lab thing.
Last weekend I was at the beach when I got a text from Holly proclaiming that her Nauplii had turned into Cyprids and she needed help transferring them all to sanded petri dishes. I eventually went to the lab to help her, but first I surfed some waves. Awesome. I always thought surfing was something I would never really be into, but after Joshua let me float on his surfboard and then try catching some waves I got hooked!! I have already added surfboards to one of my daily searches on craigslist.
The Nauplius is the one with the blue background, and then the Cyprid is the one with the orange/red background
This week in lab we've started a chart that we're supposed to fill out whenever we work. There's columns that read "name, hours worked, description of work, etc." to help the grad student and Dr. Johnson decide on who will be Lab Worker of the Month. I hope I win. As I was writing down that I helped Holly and saved some barnacles from death, I saw Aaron's latest entry which read "Killed the rain forest to save the oceans." It also said in parentheses, (cleaned the floor with papertowels). At least someone else has a sense of humor about the whole working-in-the-lab thing.
Last weekend I was at the beach when I got a text from Holly proclaiming that her Nauplii had turned into Cyprids and she needed help transferring them all to sanded petri dishes. I eventually went to the lab to help her, but first I surfed some waves. Awesome. I always thought surfing was something I would never really be into, but after Joshua let me float on his surfboard and then try catching some waves I got hooked!! I have already added surfboards to one of my daily searches on craigslist.
The Nauplius is the one with the blue background, and then the Cyprid is the one with the orange/red background
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