Thanks Em for urging us to write more often! However, you have to tell US more about your life too, otherwise it just ain't a fair deal.
So here's my update: life is going swimmingly. I still love my job and my co-workers (2 of which are also my roomies). The Pacific Northwest is insanely wonderful- I'm actually thinking that I may move to Seattle next year and take classes at the University of Washington to prepare for grad school/ vet school. It's just a matter of figuring out finances- AmeriCorps makes it all so easy right now!! I'm realizing how much I hate money- loans, loans, loans and if I do end up going to vet school (which is my current plan) it'll mean adding a LOT more money to that pile of loans. *sigh* However, if it means doing something that make me feel alive and happy, then it's worth it.
Ummm some things I've learned in the past few months:
1. Natural hot springs are totally awesome if not a wee bit stinky. We went to some in Olympic National Park and they instantly tarnished Valerie's rings!!! (She's one of my co-worker/roomies). Sooo weird but awesome!! We hiked in 2.5 miles.
2. Hooded nudibranchs smell like watermelons. No really. They do. We went night-seining and knew we'd caught them first by their scent!
http://ptmarinesciencecenter.blogspot.com/2009/11/hooded-nudibrachs-and-their-dance.html
3. Dead Orcas are exceptionally stanky. Ok- I can only vouch for a flipper (with flesh still on it) and a mostly clean skull.. but EW. Blubber is also very, very stubbornly oily.
The pectoral flipper looking gnarly (aka AWESOME):
Most of us from the Marine Science Center, holding catscans and x-rays of the flipper (so when they articulate the skeleton they'll know exactly where all the teeny tiny bones go!). From left to right: Heather (AmeriCorps), ME, Sue (volunteer), Julia (AmeriCorps), Valerie (AmeriCorps), Chrissy (Marine Program Coordinator):
4. Salamanders are equally as cute in the NW as in the Midwest.
5. It is indeed still possible at 23 to get a butchered haircut (NO "please give me a 1 inch trim" will never, ever, ever mean "please lop off 4 inches). I'm grieving.
6. How wonderful it is to have friends that are spread all over the country and world! You guys are great!
I miss you all tons and tons and tons and want to hear all about your lives!!!
-Jess
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