so im pet sitting for a woman i work with and it is a lot of trouble and i feel terrible for the poor animals. she has a big dog, 2 cats, and a bird. its one of those houses that smells like lots of animals live there and i cant bring myself to hang around there for more than an hour, so i go once in the morning and once in the evening but i feel ( Read more... )

why is it that the one man i want to impress more than anyone only recognizes when i do something wrong.

ive been working on refurbishing this table for like 2 weeks now, i thought it would take like 3 days. but such is life when you have to take into account rain days and humidity that makes watching paint dry take 3x's as long as the idiomatic expression implies. it has a turqouise top and black legs and is beautiful! though stupid bugs keep landing ( Read more... )

i just saw "An Inconvenient Truth," Al Gore's movie. Talk about depressing. Mostly a layman's review of all my climatology classes but there is this one scene in there that made me just about burst into tears...and it was only an animation ( Read more... )

i love kevin to death, but gosh darnit, i wish i had some other friends here too. you know, people to go out with, to play trivia at a bar with, play pool with. kevins friends are all home from school now, either for the summer or with real jobs down here. so he gets to go out with his friends sometimes, i guess i could go too, but its not so much ( Read more... )

haha, so i got a reply from a national park service job i applied for last summer!! it says im a finalist for the job position and they will let me know the results within 90 days! shit, ill be in St Pete in less than 90 days...i love how fast the government works :P

me and kevin are going to busch gardens tomorrow!! yayayayay!! (people are still ( Read more... )

well, i have 2 roommates planned for next year, erin and julie, one went to UVA and the other to William and Mary...why do i attract virginian collegians? either way, they are both pretty cool. got to know them at the recruitment weekend and we happen to be the only girls there without family or a husband in the area so why not live together? ( Read more... )

so house is definately out, but i do have 2 roommates and hopefully between the 3 of us we will be able to find a suitable place to live. Kevin was finally admitted to UF this week! and its with a guy who does a lot of remote work about 20 mins from St Pete so hopefully ill get to see kevin with some frequency. at least till we get seriously into ( Read more... )

terrible...terrible, terrible, terrible ( Read more... )

so it has been decided.  I will be attending USF in the Fall for a masters of science in geological oceanography.  In a matter of years you will be able to call me Master Alexa :)  right? a person with a doctors gets to be called Dr whatever, so its only fair a person with a masters gets to be called Master whatever.  Of course it will probably be ( Read more... )