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I never got to meet you but have fun...bye

watches you ride off in the sunset

You are my idol...just going off to Italy...*sigh* Will you have email? Can we stay in touch? I would love to talk to someone who is actually there. I'm very interested in living vicariously through you...then when I do go, I'll have someone to go out drinking tequila shots with...

No, no webcast of the radio show yet...yet....I'm going to work on it...I'll let you know if we do...And the Naked Chicks on Radio thing...well, there were 3 times in particular that I'm thinking of that would qualify, I suppose. However, according to the FCC...nope..we're always clothed, all the time... And NOTHING has EVER happened in the bathroom at work, either...(shhh, Catie...don't tell on me...)

Please stay....at least in touch...you're incredible!

I'm very, very sorry about your mother but the type of offense wasn't the point. There's no reason to take offense at something I said that had absolutely nothing to do with you and leave a comment on my page telling me that I said something "stupid".

Well I'm certainly glad everything worked out! That sounds great, Italia it is!!

And to finally answer your question, yes I check me email. That was totally funny.

Sorry I've been so aloof. Finals

You are sooo amazing! You have completely succeeded at your studies and still shared it all to help someone else to succeed as well! Not to mention carry on the legacy! Will that be pulitzer or just plain cookie! You're awesome!

you lost me

Nice Winged Migration critique. What I appreciated about the film was its perspective. I agree that the footage was overly focused on a limited range birds (birds that people kill with guns?). Im also aware that the birds were trained to become comfortable with the glider. Even so, one of the best ways to get people out of their shallow, anthropocentric shells is to show them a world from another perspective. I like the fact that Winged Migration glorified some of the garbage birds rather than lending its entire documentary weight to the standard plumage birds.

Id be willing to wander the Rockies and wander its watersheds. I spent three months wandering giardia-free Chile. Im into water.

that sounds like a delightful weekend. i'm envious

Wow thats awsome about the seminar! Congratulations!

As for you're question, parasitology is something I am interested in. That is to say, I havn't actually had much of a chance to study it yet.

The schistasomes I may get a chance to study this summer sound pretty amazing. They have a triple host life cycle, starting with a marine snail. Eggs hatch in the snail, and then snail is eaten by fish. Worms develope in the fish, and actually cause the fish (physiologically? psycologically?) to start swimming on it's side! This of course makes the fish an easy target to spot by predatory birds, which just so happen to be the necessary final host for the schistasome. I think thats pretty fascinating!

I studied meteorology as one of the wayward paths of early college (and so that I could take a class entitled severe and unusual weather patterns and go storm chasing). Anyway, you Canadians are always sending us your cold upper air. Could you please cut it out?

there is no doubt - my wife is the master

but unfortunately - not the mater of the universe...

"I HAVE THE POWER!"

prioritize... for me, that is the only way I keep my head above water...

thanks for the words of encouragement!

and as far as organization, i make almost daily lists, that i promptly lose and remake constantly while forgetting what i was supposed to do in the first place that i didn't do because i was busy making a list. then again, my system isn't the best...

good luck writing
what's your process? are you very organized or very haphazrd? i pretty much have to set aside huge blocks of time - and i write in bursts. sit down, pound out some - then wander about & think ... sit down & write some more..etc

enjoy the rain, my friend

ack!
that was a wasp? i thought it was a yellowjacket. i dont know the difference between them tho.

i think the grossest of all is that i still have that little fuckers body in a hello kitty tin, along with the monarch wing - right next to me. i didn't know yellowjackets and wasps were the same.

maybe i should lay off animal planet and start watching the discovery channel

thanks

Are your questions bigger? I had no idea questions came in sizes. Perhaps they only look bigger because they're closer to you; perspective can be a tricky thing you know.

Mine was taken in the Black Rock desert, which is in northwest Nevada. In the middle of it is a dry Pliestocene lake bed, rouhly 10 miles wide by 60 miles long.

During winter rains, the lake bed turns into a mud pit. The photo was taken in August, but those tracks were likely made in February or March.

Before I moved out of the country, I used to get together there once every year with about 10-15 of my friends for a long weekend. We would set up a disgustingly opulent campsite: multi-room pavilions, oriental rugs, moroccan cushions, you get the idea. Also a large, fully functioning kitchen. Then on Saturday, we held a cockktail party, followed by a gourmet feast, followed by swing dancing under the stars to the sounds of Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman.

Roughing it can be such a trial.

I have never ask anyone before.