something else cool

My buddy just started a search engine/web site for all green products. Kind of a cool idea, good for him. anyway if you are looking to buy something that might have an organic alternative look for it here. www.greencrawler.com

In other news...

Also, I sent the latest draft of my paper to the publisher's last night. Cross your fingers, knock on wood, or engage in whatever luck giving superstitions you might hold, that I will not have to do anymore revisions and that it will be excepted by academia as more than a cute attempt by an undergraduate to get her name in lights.

Black abalone Haliotis cracherodii, and the physiological affects of Withering syndrome

What it is doing outside, is basically happening in my sinuses right now.

Tomorrow I give my thesis to the Fishery Department. I feel kind of nostalgic and bittersweet about it. The faculty and staff, with a few exceptions, have been great to work with over the past 4+ years, and some I will genuinely miss, despite the department's overwhelming love for salmon and whales. Which is funny considering those faculty I admire most have nothing to do with either.

I find it interesting how detached from my pure marine biology intentions I have become over the past few years. From that seminal class of Patrick Christie's that introduced me to the idea of science for humanity's sake rather than science for science's sake, (which is very similar yet in opposition to the art for art's sake debate coming from my sister's side of academia) I have had a hard time relating to the importance of issues like withering syndrome in abalone and the invasive tunicates of my internship.

I have a difficult time separating myself between issues that are dreams and perhaps out of my logistical reach, and those that while are within my designated field and realm of familiarity, but with little passion.

Yeah...forgot all my passwords, but I will try this again

Wow I write about weird stuff when I am really sick, perhaps that is why I am writing now. I don't really have anything to say now, but I am supposed to be writing two essays in Tagalog, and well it is 1am and I have not started. But now that I have re-activated this, you can continue to be creepy and follow along with my literary consciousness if you want, as I no longer remember my Livejournal name/passwords either. P.S. I wish I had a different car, I am really excited for "Across the Universe" to come out, and I hope my cold goes away before my thesis presentation on Tuesday...