Well, I was thrown back into real life again and I don't like it right now. Real life at the moment consists of checking all of my job websites and the paper for something that meets a minimum requirement of having to do something with plants and something that pays more than a job I could get without a college degree. I didn't spend 7 years of ( Read more... )

Well, my summer job is almost over....sadness setting in......depression flaring up......becoming reclusive.......no longer showering ( Read more... )

I went to the Weber County Fair Friday and Saturday. It seems to get more lame as time progresses, although, this year was better than last ( Read more... )

Well, the job hunt is not going very well. I may have to settle for something out of my field for a bit before the right opportunity comes along. Not something I really wanted to do ( Read more... )

I had an OK week at work. Nothing spectacular happened. I wasn't working with Bracken. He always makes work fun and his sense of humor is the best. Plus he even laughs at my jokes, in case you don't know, I tell some pretty lame ones. I saw something cool though, well something that I think is cool. On two sites I saw a mass exodus of flying ( Read more... )

I'm beginning to feel pretty worthless lately. I feel like I wasted a bunch of time going to school. There aren't many jobs available for a botanist around here. Well, I can't say that, there are a lot of jobs for botanists around here, it's just that each employer would like you to have either a master's degree or years of experience. Both of ( Read more... )

Crap, I've been cranky again....I'm tired of being in a bad mood on the weekend ( Read more... )

Work was pretty cool today. It is fun having my friend Chris back on the crew. He had been in Guatemala for 3 weeks. We spent a good 45 minutes searching for fossils on one of our sites today. We found some nice specimens of horn coral. Some of them could have substituted for a baby's arm if there happened to be a tragic accident and the baby's ( Read more... )

I've decided that updating my livejournal is pretty fun. I probably will get distracted in a while and lay off for a bit, but as of right now it's pretty fun ( Read more... )

Got back from Craters of the Moon today. It was a lot better than I expected. A lot of it seems different from when I was a kid, although I'm sure the majority of it is still the same ( Read more... )