Tonight Dr. Birute Mary Galdikas graced Ellensburg with her gentle spirit, authentic grace and exigent words.  I'm sleepy, so more on this tomorrow.  But for now an illustration (which can be applied to almost ALL of the world's critters no matter how you go about defining "endangered"):


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One of my psych professors claims that there is a point in every research project when you think to yourself: "This is rediculous.  This is never going to work.  Why on Earth am I doing this ( Read more... )

...that one day, and one day very soon, I will be a real, honest to goodness adult ( Read more... )

Walker:  My take on things is: You can get as fat as you want to, but if you stop being a genius then we are going to have problems.

Me (for the sake of rediculous argument): How could I stop being a genius?  It isn't like it's something I asked for, it just happened.  I don't think it would one day just disappear.

Walker: Well you could accidentally ( Read more... )

I'm kind of ashamed to admit it, but one late late night after pizza-work (apparently my mother gets confused when I say just "work," so now it's pizza-work and school/teaching-work) I was perusing thru the various strands of interweb and happened upon "Winston's Journal."   Written by an openly gay guy, about his smooshed face cat, Winston, with ( Read more... )

Seems like everyone I know is havin' a baby. It disturbs me to think that I am old enough to have friends that can have children. I mean, I know there was the errant individual who gave birth in our early 20s....but now, it's everybody. Seriously ( Read more... )

As a waitress, I am getting quite well acquainted with E'burg's boys in blue ( Read more... )

I've recently acquired an obsession with these. Whatever.  It's not all funny, but some of it is clever.  I also find the convensions and inside jokes....comforting I guess.  So I'm a silent party, but I'm still in the "in-group."  What can I say?  Fuzz and cuteness make me happy.

So little does these days.  I always thought that being in love would ( Read more... )

I suppose if I'm truly honest with myself I've never been really good with feedback -- any kind. I'm horrible with compliments. I just don't know how to take them. What's worse, perhaps, tho is how I do take to criticism - personally. It eats at me. Mountain out of a mole-hill, eats at me ( Read more... )

My journal posts always seem to be about life's stresses and strife....how un-fun of me! I should really make little daily posts so that my existence doesn't seem so epoch-riddled.