- I've been incredibly busy since school started, hence the lack of updates. I thought my classes would be easier this semester, but they're not. Kory is even busier than I am. I never see him anymore. Really.
- Kory's sister, Kelly, is getting married this Saturday. I only have one dress (the one I wore to Rhonda and Alfred's wedding) and no shoes to match (I wore a pair of Katrina's shoes before.) So now I have to go shopping, and I know it's going to be impossible to find non-leather, non-sweatshop shoes that match. Maybe I'll just go barefoot, I'm sure Kelly would understand.
- My society finches had babies. Two little fuzzy brown baby finches. I really don't know much about taking care of them at all, just that I'm supposed to leave them alone and the mother and father will take care of everything. But the other day both of them were sitting at the bottom of the cage huddled together and I had no idea whether I was supposed to put them back in the nest or not. I didn't have time to sit around and watch to see if the parent's were going down to feed them, so I just scooped them up and put them back in the nest. The same thing happend the next day, so I scooped them up again and they haven't come out since.
- Nishi and Koichi had been pulling each other's fur out, so I had to go and buy another rabbit cage to separate them. So now I have four rabbit cages to clean (in addition to the other hundred bird and reptile cages). I guess one more cage isn't a big deal though. I was actually worried that Nishi would be too scared/skittish without Koichi there to "protect" her, but she seems to be doing good so far.
- I really like my Japanese class. The school bookstore finally got in the cd that goes along with our textbook, so now I actually have something productive I can do while driving two and a half hours every work day. Luckily it's completely dark when I go to work in the morning, and when I leave in the afternoon there's hardly anyone on the turnpike. Otherwise everyone would see me repeating, "Takai desu ne," over and over with a funny look on my face. That's my favorite line in the lesson I've been working on. It means "It's expensive!" and the way it's said on the cd is so funny.
- You can type your name in at the top of this page and it will show you your name in katakana.
- I have three mosquito bites on my neck and they're driving me crazy! I can't see them, but I know the whole back of my neck is probably a huge red swollen mass since I can't stop scratching them. When we first started going out in the field for my wetlands class, I would try to brush off every mosquito that landed on me, but now I've realized it's not even worth it. There are just way too many of them to even bother. That doesn't mean they don't distract me though. I'm amazed at how Ferenc, my teacher, handles it. It's like they're not even touching him! He can stand there and talk to us about hydric soils for twenty minutes straight and not even show any signs of discomfort, while the rest of us are standing there waving our arms around like monsters. And no, he is not wearing mosquito repellent.
