I cannot get motivated this week, and there are so many end of semester things that need to be done!  I just want to go home and sleep...

My halloween pics are posted on my facebook page.  Go there to look at them!

http://www.facebook.com/photos.php?id=1556237424
(i hope thats the right link...)

Sheesh.  I cannot get through a nightline portion about Alex without crying the entire time.  Dr Pepperberg is an amazing person and Alex was an amazing bird and all those directly in the Avian care and medicine professional community greatly mourn his loss.  And Roly is lucky that the school she works for has such an amazing scientist ( Read more... )

I just bought 2 pumpkins!  they are good pumpkins.  I believe i will carve a spider on one of them.  and I bought a fall leaf garland at the craft store, so even though leaves dont really change much here, i can have fall colors.  I wish there were better halloween decorations around here.  I cant find good lights.

so cold....

it was only 63 degrees yesterday here and it was 50 when I came to school this am.  and its about that same temp in the Forestry building (and perhaps lower in the GIS lab where I was for the past 3 hrs...)  so cold!  at least I have the gloves megaelim knit for me!

I just wrote an entire detailed post, but as always, I accidently hit the fucking page back button that is located within the arrows and lost it.  I have tried to post things so many times and had that happen and once that happens I feel like its just too fucking late to redo the entire message, so that is one of the reason there are not as many ( Read more... )

I should be making foam animals (I guess I have a reputation around the Forestry department for being artistic, so now I get asked to do things, its cool).  And I should start studying for my dendrology exam on thursday, but I haven't done a meme for a while, and I want to!

( the memememe )

Time for hurricane parties!!!!

(Also, I ordered a hurricane at the bar last night)

So, Its finally happened.  I kept waiting for it...  I was wondering how long it would take ( Read more... )

Today I bought pipes to divert and carry the run-off water from the gutters out to the parking lot.  During one really bad thunderstorm in August, my patio flooded up to my door.  If it had one inch more, it would have been in my apt.  I think its mostly because the corner of my patio is the lowest point, directly below two major gutter run-off ( Read more... )