Nothing Ever Stays

Agraulis vanillae

2006-09-22T15:37:00.000-07:00

Day 2:
At this point, the caterpillar is physiologically instructed to molt one last time into a chrysalis (pupa) from which the adult butterfly is assembled , literally from scratch, by liquefying and transforming the caterpillar parts into the adult parts of the butterfly.

Agraulis vanillae

2006-09-21T10:07:00.000-07:00

Day 1
How long does it take for a caterpiller to turn into a butterfly? Let's find out!

art is fun

2006-09-17T16:21:00.000-07:00

Ever gone to an art musseum and thought " I could do that". or my cat on nip could make something more interesting well then have I got a site for you, go to www.jacksonpollock.org and have fun.

Ready ...sumo

2006-07-07T11:43:00.000-07:00

So last night Ben and I are having a quiet evening at home, when around 10pm we hear yelling, screaming, and cheering. So I proposed we investigate. As we walk down the drive way out to the street we realize that the commotion is coming from behind Wallies Bike Shop. With further inquiry we come to discover that every first Thursday after farmers, the group of bikers that ride around, meet at Wallies and Sumo. The object of the game is to nock your opponet off his bike or just make him put his foot down and stop. This went on until around 11pm when a winner was declared. It was the funniest thing I have seen in a while.

My new home

2006-07-03T11:27:00.000-07:00

Well it'’s been about two weeks in our new place and even thought there have been ups and downs (5 broken windows), all and all I love living at work. The commute is hard, being such a long walk across the parking lot, the view is horribly gorgeous with all the trees, birds and the creek behind the yard, and between work and my neighbours, I'm surrounded with wretchedly cute animals.

My new room mate is kind of a nerd, but he's cool. And although I have never shared a room in my life, with this guy, it hasn't been that bad. Unfortunately I think he snores, and sometimes he talks in his sleep. Regardless I love living here.

happy birthday

Sun rise

2006-05-30T22:55:00.000-07:00

2006-05-28T23:49:00.000-07:00

Too many Kittens

2006-05-28T23:23:00.000-07:00

They are very cute!!!!

Happy Mothers Day

2006-05-15T23:22:00.000-07:00

I know this is late but to all those mothers, thanks for life. Recently I have a new respect for mothers. I have become the care giver of 2 kittens that are about 4 weeks old. I have three words "4 am Feedings" OMG!!!! They are cutest thing ever but I have never felt so tired in a long time. So if any one wants a kitten, or knows someone who wants a kitten, or has some ideas as what to do with kittens, please let me know. I already tried to make them Ninjas but that didn't come out so good. Happy belated Mothers Day

2006-05-09T21:46:00.000-07:00

Big Sur was.......

2006-04-20T21:04:00.000-07:00

Over easter weekend I went camping to San Simion State Park against my own free will. I have nothing aginst camping or beautiful San Simion but I perfer not to camp in the cold rain for educatioanl purposese. I'm currently taking Zoo 323, Ornithology, and find it very enjoyable, I don't mind getting up at 5:30 every wednesday for a 5 hour feild trip, but I don't perfer to go camping in the COLD RAIN. So this was the plan: leave Friday night and camp in the cold rain. Saturday get up at 6am and go briding in the cold rain until 6:30pm, then study for the test. Sunday (Easter) get up at 5:30 am and take the 4 hour feild test in the COLD RAIN! The waether not only make being there a "joy", but because of poor lighting it was hard to distinuish a westeren blue bird form a cliff swallow or a trukey vulture form a red tailed hawk, ( I guess I need more practice). Sunday at 11am the test was over and the class was dismissed to pack camp and leave. 11:20am Laura and I leave San Simion park, I thinks that's a packing record. So we are driving down the 1, about ten minutes out of San Simion and that's when it hit us, literally. Out of the right corner of my eye I see a ball of feathers take flight. He flys over the hood of Laura's black Ford Ranger, inches form the hood, and just when I think he's going to make it he smacks into the lower left hand side of the windsheild. Laura and I look at each other in disbeliefe and began to laugh uncontrollably. You see right before we hit the bird of unknown species we were talking about how much we hated this trip. Making statements like, " The rain dosen't cancle the trip, Dr. V cancles the trip", and " mountain lion injuries don't cancle the trip, Dr. V cancles the trip." and so on and so forth. ( Dr. V being the instructor) So to hit this bird was sweet revenge. we thought about stoping to pick it up but it took of Laura's will power not to drive off the road with laughter. All in all It wasn't that bad, but the class seems to be cursed because every lab it rains. What are going do?

I'm an Elk

2006-03-14T09:43:00.000-08:00

On feburary 21, 2006 I became a member of Benevolent and Protective order of the Elks, and I'm having so much fun! I love being an elk they have one of the best bars, they serve dinner almost every night and I have never met a funnier group of men in my life

Kitty doomy doom doom

2006-01-29T23:00:00.000-08:00

Oh my gosh, I just saw the funniest thing. Check this out, it's so hilarious. You'll love it if you've ever seen Invader Zim. Even if you haven't... just check it out.

Not again!

2006-01-23T13:15:00.001-08:00

So a couple nights ago I'm in bed minding my own business when at about 3 am I wake up with the most excruciating pain in my left shoulder. Now I'm half asleep and I don't know whets going on, all I know is that I have to get up and go to work in a few hours, and I want to sleep. Then I realize that my shoulder is dislocated, again!, and I cant get it back in considered just going back to sleep and dealing with this later but that was not goign to happen. So after about what felt like twenty minutes i get my shoulder back in, I think this was friday night, and all I can say is that my shoulder still hurts.

oph

2005-12-23T20:20:00.000-08:00

Many of you who know me are fully aware of my occupation aside from being a student, and so many of you have heard the bizzar stories that have come form the pet hospital. But some of the haps that occur here need to be shared with the world. For example tonight Doc is out of town and the other 4 people who live on the property are away as well. So lucky me, being the only trusted employee left in town, gets put on fire watch. What is fire watch you might ask? Well although it has been explained to me many times all I have gotten out of the story is that it involves unlocking the door for the firemen in case there is a fire (and some how this involves a cell phone). Personally I think doc feels better knowing that someone is on the property while she is away.
It's amazing the small community that has been created here, there isn't a thing that any of us wouldn't do for Doc. There have been many times when I am tired, dirty, and all I wish to do is to go home, and Doc has asked a "small favor" that I, without thinking, always say yes, even if that means staying an extra hour doing whatever, and half the time I'm off the clock. We never ask for anything in return, we work for very little and we put in long hard hours and never will you hear one of us truly complain.
So the question remains why do we stay? Doc has a wisdom that is seldom found in this day and age, her knowledge of animals and life amazes me every day and she has a generosity that compels you to come back and give more than you knew you could. You see, Doc is 84 years old and Monday thru Sunday she's here before you come in at 8am and doesn't leave until well after you do at 7pm. She will come in to check on critical cases at all and any hour of the night. If Doc can give this much then there is no reason we all can't. In that last 48 hours I have worked 24, and in fact am kind of working right now, and tomorrow I will work another 10 or 11 hours, come in on Christmas and all of next week, and at the end of each day I always ask "Is there anything else I can do?."

2005-12-11T14:01:00.000-08:00

"… but the tigers come at night,
with their voices soft as thunder
as they tear your hope apart
and they turn your dream to shame. "
I Dreamed a Dream
Les Mis

Les Miserables

2005-12-10T17:56:00.000-08:00

My favorite play is Les Miserables, I saw it London on by 20th birthday. The web site http://www.lesmis.com is for the same play I saw. I have the sound track and I have to say it is the most depressing and beautiful piece of music I have ever heard and I can’t stop listening to it.

Jessica's Birthday party

2005-12-05T20:32:00.000-08:00

DD's can have fun too

2005-12-04T09:14:00.000-08:00

Last night was my room mates birthday so I did what any friend would do I took her and our friends out and got them drunk. Jessica, my hot room mate, wanted very simple things this year. 1 to get very cute , check, 2 to get very drunk, check, 3 to shake what her mama gave her, check! I was the DD, designated driver, and I had a great time watching all my friends and my brother get stupid dumb drunk. Jessica seems to like the floor so I have many shots of her just lying around. Jason, my brother, sings like an opera singer when he gets drunk. Matt well if you thought he couldn't get redder. And lastly,Ben,if you thought Ben was weird before look at him drunk. All in all it was a good time partying till 2am, one question I have right now is, why at 9am am up?! Any way stay sassy!

Get the service plans

2005-11-29T21:21:00.000-08:00

So with finals just around the corner everything that can go wrong does, and worlds collide. I have umpteen pages for icthyology to print out and of course my printer takes a dump on my handouts and says NO! with the furry of Poseidon. So I do what I always do, I call my mom, aka manager at staples, and take in my crap printer and get me a new one. Now if I had not bought the service plan with the printer I would have had to buy a new printer but because staples kicks ass I got a new one for free. So the moral of the story is to always buy the service plan.

2005-11-28T23:50:00.000-08:00

Sometimes I feel like I want to scream and take my truck on a long drive off a short cliff, but then I remember that I have finals next week and if I'm dead I can't take the test and if I don't take the test then I can't pass the class........Sigh...............So I keep going .............I would like to go to some place far away where everything can be explained by keebler elves, marshin farts, and unicorn fairies ... Yes.... That would be nice.

today

2005-11-25T22:47:00.000-08:00

Today was just like all other days I got up, went to work, came home, and studied.. Tomorrow I will do the same