One great thing about working in the reptile house is computer and high speed internet access. This means that on my break times I can sit and play on the computer! Yay! This is especially good since the internet at my place is still down (sadness ( Read more... )

Well, its my birthday and guess where I am? WORK! Yep, the joys of zookeeping life. Oh well, its not like I had any other plans anyway ( Read more... )

I bought a bed!!!! I am soooo excited :) For those of you who don't know, when I moved to California, my mattress set wouldn't fit in the trailer, so I have been sleeping on a cheap air mattress since, oh, the end of February. Well, my back has finally had enough of that and began boycotting the abuse, hence I started looking around for mattress ( Read more... )

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Well, (laughs) I did something very amusing this afternoon that was worth an hour of overtime at the zoo. I got to pretend to be an escaped orangatan and run around the zoo for a bit. We have these animal escape drills every so often to test our response time and if other departments are doing what they are supposed to and such. It was amusing ( Read more... )

I love having lists like this around. It gives me titles to look for when I go to the library, or things to aspire too. Though, I do think there are some "classics" missing from this list. Anyone have other titles of must reads to add?

Beowulf
Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
Agee, James - A Death in the Family
Austen, Jane - Pride and ( Read more... )

Last night my roommate and I went to see Mel Brooks' "The Producers" and it was soooo excellent! It was a wonderful performance and everything was just great. It also helps that neither of us payed for the tickets (laughs.) Her boyfriend has a season pass to the theater, but he was out of town for the showings of this particular musical, so he ( Read more... )

I just found out that one of the wolves at Wolf Park, Ursa passed away earlier today. She was pretty old for a wolf and that was the cause of her passing. She was one of my favorites. In fact, Ursa was the first wolf to give me a kiss when I was an intern at Wolf Park. I have many wonderful memories of walks and bison field runs with her, and ( Read more... )

Well, the weather has been beautiful and I am almost done with my first month in Primates. It has been a lot more fun than I originally expected. I am enjoying working with the animals here much better than I did in the Primate area back in Utica. In fact, I am going into my second week of training with the Chimps. So far so good. The alpha ( Read more... )

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