It's been over a year since I've done anything with this journal. It mostly boils down to this: making journal or dairy entries is not something that I usually think to do. So I'm thinking of repurposing this blog into something a little more focused. I have an idea of something to write about, a hobby of mine, but it's a 1 AM type of idea, so I ( Read more... )

As in, I finally found one. It took literally a month from the time i started seriously looking until i found this place, which also means, unfortunately, no Houston trip this summer. This disappoints me, but i kind of figured that's the way things would go. Anyway, it's a studio/efficiency unit a little further from campus than i was at the other ( Read more... )

Right now, I'm sitting on one of the most uncomfortable chairs ever constructed--one that I commandeered from being a decoration in the corner--because in an attempt to improve my chair, I destroyed it ( Read more... )

So much for regular updates, I guess. Then again, not much happened last semester worth mentioning ( Read more... )

So here it is three hours before i have to go to the airport, and i had pretty much given up on being able to kill me a treesnake, when guess what slithers up to my porch? I walked out to go to the office and waste time on the computer, and i happened to look down and see a snake sitting right by the door. It was about 12 to 18 inches long, skinny ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is my last full day on Guam. I finished up everything i'm going to get done on the WSSV project down here as of this afternoon (this consisted mainly of making copies of literature i had found). That leaves tomorrow to tie up any loose paperwork ends and pack all my crap up. My flight leaves around 6 in the morning, so you can imagine how ( Read more... )

The last trapping run was anticlimactic to say the least. A couple of setbacks meant that Rob and i (Lisa had hurt her back and had to sit this one out) went down to the bay on Sunday instead of the intended Saturday. He had a lot of other things to do, so we decided to forgo the drop nets; we probably wouldn't have caught much anyway due to the ( Read more... )

More damage to the truck, though i don't think this one was my fault. I was driving to the bank today to cash a paycheck, when the truck in front of me stopped suddenly. I slammed on the brakes and stopped about a foot from his back bumper, so no collision, but right after i had stopped, the brake pedal got really soft. I could still stop, but i ( Read more... )

Tonight's trapping was underwhelming. On the hand catching end, we did catch a new species (new to us anyway), but we didn't catch many specimens of anything. It was even worse with the crab traps (or hoop nets/rebar traps/drop nets; i think i call them something different every time i mention them). Last week, we lost one (or it was stolen), so we ( Read more... )

Today, i figured out how to get my broom to stand upright. My productivity is through the roof ( Read more... )