studentdriver

Good luck on your midterms! How does the student mentoring thing work?

That's so cool that a kitten appeared on your doorstep! Was it already in your apartment building or did it come in from outside? Do you think someone might try to claim it?

I think my gerbils will be ok. They're from the same litter and they lived together for 1.5 years before the 'tail chomping' incident. I think they just got cranky. I had another pair of gerbils a few years ago that I had to separate permanently; they'd been chasing each other around for quite a few days and then one of them started relentlesly biting the other one all over the flank. I also had a pair once that got along great for 3 years until one of them got old and sick and I came home one day to find that the other had neatly disemboweled his 'friend' and left him belly-up in the centre of the cage cult-style.

I've heard that hamsters are tricky to keep in pairs/groups - I gather that you had the misfortune of witnessing trauma-inducing rodent violence on a regular basis as a child?

Hey I saw your comment in the Introverts group and I thought I'd say hi. I like that you don't have a very extensive friends list - maybe that sounds wierd, but I usually don't like posting if people already have 3 pages of comments and a jillion people on their friends list.

I'm glad you like dancing - I haven't gone in such a long time but I used to love it. Good taste in movies too... although I've always skipped over 'Kiki's Delivery Service' on the rental shelf - what would you recommend about it?

Sounds like 'Kiki' is a lot more subtle than most anime. Maybe I'll give it a try some time. I hate english dub-overs too - subtitles are always way better.

About your girlfriend's eterna-project - it's easier to think something is cool when you can appreciate the end product without having to do any of the work... and once you're bogged down in something it's easy to forget what drew you to it in the first place. So definately remind her that from an outsider's perspective modelling IS way cool and she's lucky to have a cool job.

I would love to get more into to hydrogeology and geochemistry - my academic background was mostly in water/waste water treatment so I've been edging my way into the contaminated sites stuff from a less technical angle and filling in the gaps in my education as I go along. Sometimes I contemplate going back to do a master's one day, but watching my boyfriend slave away on his eterna-thesis has been a bit of a deterrent, I'm afraid. Besides, at least one of us needs to be employed!