It's been a while again

This is the Aye Aye. I'm doing my research paper on them. Notice the very long middle finger that they use to stick into trees and pull out bugs. They've been hunted almost to extinction because people in Madagascar believe that if an Aye Aye points it's finger at you, you'll die.




Whoa, a whole month has gone by without me creating a blog. Spring Break was awesome though! I built a waterfall and made trails, and shaved dogs and wrangled goats. I would love to own a ranch. The weather was awesome and the land was just beautiful. Jeff and the Mercy Ships people are just completely wonderful and I would love to work with them again. I can't believe we only have like 6 more weeks of school left. Part of me is glad that school's almost over but another part of me is sad about not having spring breaks or summer breaks anymore.

Getting a little busy

This is the Fennec Fox. Cutest little thing ever. It's about the size of a house cat and can be trained to be a house pet.





So this semester has been going really well thus far. I like the word thus, I wish more people would use cool words like that. Anyway I have 4 classes that are Animal Science or Wildlife related and 1 History class. I'm so glad that I'm actually taking classes that apply solely to what I want to do in life. I can't wait until this summer when I'm hopefully interning at the zoo. Maybe it'll even turn into a permanent job. Yay!

As far as the "resolution" goes, I have been working out pretty regularly. I shoot for 5 days a week but it doesn't always work out that way. Along with that, I'm trying to eat breakfast every morning and not eat after 9. It's a little harder than I expected it to be but I'm not doing so bad with it.

New Year

Sea snakes are highly venomous and sometimes as much as 4x more deadly than land snakes, however they are not as quick to strike. This is the Banded Sea Snake, part of the only group of sea snakes that are oviparous.





So I don't make resolutions like other people do. I figure I'll just forget about them a couple weeks into the year anyway so I just don't make them. Most of the time I'm already trying to change for the better. In December I decided that I was going to really and truly try to lose weight. So far it's been going well because this time around it feels different. I have no problems going to the gym and I actually have been liking working out. My only problem is keeping it going. After a few weeks I usually stop going, so this time I'm really trying to figure out how to work it into my schedule. Also I've stopped eating late and have been watching what I eat. I use to tell myself that I didn't want to become one of those girls that always counted calories and told other people how many calories they were eating. Those types of girls annoyed me to no end and I would usually end up telling them off. Now I realize that I used that as an excuse to not even try to lose weight when I was younger. So I have become a calorie watcher. Here's to becoming a new person!

Nocturnal Activites

Random animal fact of the day:
Giraffes have the same number of vertebrae in their necks as humans do, although each one is about a foot long.
Insomnia is a crazy thing. At least I think that's what I have. I just never feel like going to sleep at night anymore. If I had a car I'd probably be driving around Knoxville at this time but since I don't, I am reading entire books and watching infomercials. As I'm writing this I'm finishing a book that I just got in the mail tonight. Then in about 2 hours I will go to sleep only to get up sometime tomorrow afternoon. I've always been a night owl but I think as I've gotten older it's gotten worse. I don't necessarily want to make it stop though. I don't really care either way.

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So I found out some information tonight that had me walking around campus at night by myself. All of a sudden I couldn't bear the walls, too enclosed. Isn't it amazing how when you tell yourself that you're going to do something God sends something to test you? Like for instance if you say you're going to work on your forgiveness, God will most definitely send you something that tests that. But what if you don't think you can make it through? What if you're not strong enough to get over it? What if no amount of bible verses and praying can get through and make you not want to kill someone? What if you just can't do it?

A few thoughts

Random animal fact for the day:
The male Sea Louse kidnaps several female Sea Lice and then impregnates them. When the babies are born they explode out of each female Sea Louse killing her.



So as an update, I was really trying to not be bitter anymore about a certain person. It's starting to get less hard everyday. At least I don't feel the same animosity towards her as I did before. Suicide really is a disease. It not only affects the person who did it but everyone around them. And you go around thinking that there's no way someone close to you would do something like that and then it happens. Everybody always talks about the misplaced guilt and everything but you don't really understand until you go through it.

On the plus side, Thanksgiving is coming soon. I can't wait to go home. It's been forever and I can't wait to get some real food!

It's Fall Time

look at this loveliness
(too bad he's like 17)

Halloween has come and gone and I'm actually pretty sad. That just means that we technically only have the month of November left in school. I'm sad as to how fast time flies. My last year here at UT is almost over. It's been great and part of me is excited about the "afterlife" but another part is worried about the future.
Anyway I have decided to get back in the gym and start working out again. I always start and stick with it for a few weeks and then I usually taper off. The hardest part is making sure I actually eat and at the right times. Eating breakfast is my biggest setback with losing weight. I'm usually too lazy to get up early enough to make myself something to eat. And I have such weird tastes that I can start eating something and then a week later I usually can't stand it. Like Nutra Grain bars, or cereal. I like them for a while and then I just get tired of eating them. I'm just going to have to make myself a schedule and stick to it. Here's to turning over a new leaf.

18 days til New Moon!!!!!!