i had a great time in atlanta. we drove down and went to some fish stores on friday and then to the confrence of saturday. i got to hang out with jake and teresa whom i have known for a long time and its great talking reefs. The confence was really fun too, i heard some great speakers. after the confence we went to some of the rockin parties that ( Read more... )

yesterday work kind of sucked. the novelty has worn off of alot of the tasks and now it is just getting repetitive. I guess i know that i dont want to work in an aquarium when i grow up (atleast not the little columbia one). I am waiting now for my friends jake and teresa whom i have known for a long time through the columbia aquarium club, we are ( Read more... )

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pictures:
 1) the awesome sea turtle that was fun to feed
2) gorilla that confirmed to me that humans evolved from primates
3) big-ass turtle
4) his head was scary as hell, it looks fake

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I enjoyed my project thoughoughly. I am not got to pretend like anyone else might have enjoyed it, but i loved it, and i guess thats all that matters. Today i got an orientation with a nice girl who is one of the senior aquariasts there. We then prepared food and fed everything, worked with algae cultures and artemia cultures, medicated some tanks ( Read more... )

I drove down to columbia today and checked into my hotel. I dont think i am in a very good area of town, there are some sketchy people here. I hope that my liking of working at the aquarium will make up for the boringness of being in an area i dont know well with none of my friends from home. On friday morning i am driving down to Atlanta with some ( Read more... )

i liked the following peoples last words ( Read more... )

I am usually not into poetry, but i really like stephen crane. he is really cynical and has a amazing mind. Here are some of his stuff that i really like. Enjoy, let me know what you think ( Read more... )

I got to hang out with chelsea tonight.
god damn that girl is cool as shit.

i got up today and had nothing to do. I decided to go to some fish stores that i dont really go to alot. I drove out to shelby, gastonia, and belmont to check out a couple stores, came home with a couple new corals. I really liked driving down 74W towards shelby, it was like i went through a time machine once you begin to leave the inner city of ( Read more... )

losing today was very emotional. We were down most of the game but then we came back and tied it up but lost by one. It really was a crappy ending to a good season. That being said, i had the time of my life this lacrosse season. This years team made going through the last 6 seasons worth it. Its a damn shame it could not have turned out better.

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