They're not only into nuts!
Sep. 7th, 2006 11:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rosephileAs seen just now on the KARE11 (nbc) news...
Flags put near graves in a cemetary in Eau Claire, WI have been disappearing by the dozens, and no one had any idea who might be stealing them...until a groundskeeper saw faded fabric high-up in a tree, which turned out to be a tattered flag. SQUIRRELS have been taking the flags and using them for nest material.
BWAHAHA! Oh my god, so glad I happened to catch that!
In other news, got to leave lake class (I'm calling limnology that from now on) early since she didn't make us stay after doing our first lab. I've done about 10 pages of reading (all in that book) so far, but am supposed to read one of my four books for Saturday's class by Saturday...we'll see. Hope it isn't too boring!
I've got a growing feeling that something, or LOTS of somethings, are creeping up on me. I can think of several possibilities, but this is more like a *feeling* that...just, something bad is coming. No, please. :/
Flags put near graves in a cemetary in Eau Claire, WI have been disappearing by the dozens, and no one had any idea who might be stealing them...until a groundskeeper saw faded fabric high-up in a tree, which turned out to be a tattered flag. SQUIRRELS have been taking the flags and using them for nest material.
BWAHAHA! Oh my god, so glad I happened to catch that!
In other news, got to leave lake class (I'm calling limnology that from now on) early since she didn't make us stay after doing our first lab. I've done about 10 pages of reading (all in that book) so far, but am supposed to read one of my four books for Saturday's class by Saturday...we'll see. Hope it isn't too boring!
I've got a growing feeling that something, or LOTS of somethings, are creeping up on me. I can think of several possibilities, but this is more like a *feeling* that...just, something bad is coming. No, please. :/
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Date: 2006-09-08 04:52 am (UTC)NO NEGATIVE THOUGHTS!!!! stab the negative thoughts!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Date: 2006-09-08 04:58 am (UTC)Yeah... :/
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Date: 2006-09-08 04:59 am (UTC)but sometimes they're okay. my grandpa used to feed one every day. it would come up to him and he'd feed it pecans.
but my grandpa was just special. :)
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Date: 2006-09-08 05:07 am (UTC)grad or undergrad? - just curious
eek. an entire book?
"Hope it isn't too boring" indeed.
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Date: 2006-09-08 05:16 am (UTC)Undergrad. Forever. :( Haha...it's my fifth year in college, and I've likely got two more after this one before getting my BA (this new school said BS in the brochure, but it's BA. This may turn out to be a good thing, as long as grad schools don't care that I won't have taken organic chem, biochem, or calculus...all prereqs at my old school.
Yes, an entire book, but it's not a textbook, thank god. This class has four books (it's Intro to Urban Teaching, which I signed up for 'cause it was still open, and someday--when I'm 50-something, maybe--I'd like to be a teacher) but none are textbooks.
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Date: 2006-09-08 05:16 am (UTC)No bad thoughts. I am thinking good thoughts for you. :)
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Date: 2006-09-08 05:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-08 05:21 am (UTC)I have this strange thing where I really enjoy squirrels. Ew..not in a "reaaaaaalllly ENJOY" them, just that I like to feed 'em and watch 'em....
Now I sound like a freak. Here's the story: when I lived in NYC, squirrels and pigeons were often the only "wildlife" we had. (Besides all of those freak-ass dustbunny dogs on rhinestone leashes).
So, sometimes when I needed to just space out and be "in nature". (As close at Union Sq. Park qualifies as nature), I'd buy a salt-free pretzel or a bagel, stand in a quiet-ish area of the park, and feed the squirrels. There was this one reaaaaallly tiny little dude who'd eventually come over and sit on my palm and eat the crumbs out of my hand. Sometimes, he'd just sit in my palm and look at me.
My little squirrel buddy. *sigh*
Any. Way.
*good vibes your way*
No whammies, no whammies!
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Date: 2006-09-08 05:29 am (UTC)yeah, i miss that man.
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Date: 2006-09-08 05:35 am (UTC)That squirrel story is so cute....just...I'm slighly awed, even though city animals can be practically domestic, because I've never had a wild animal eat from my hand before. Oh wait, unless you count the couple of loose donkeys in South Dakota (that had to have belonged to someone--who ever heard of wild donkeys in South Dakota?!) who ate candy out of our hands.
Not much wildlife in LA either. I got excited when I saw a non-sea gull-or-crow bird. Even squirrels are less-common there, though the ones that *are* there have tan tummies rather than white, and are pretty cute.
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Date: 2006-09-08 05:45 am (UTC)I don't have a concentration to my bio degree, but I'm guessing yours is something in ecology? Or are you not a biology major? This Urban Teaching thing has me confused.
"won't have taken... ...all prereqs at my old school"
Well, I guess you could always, of your own free will, take calc, organic, and biochem. But then I'd have to call you a masochist :-D
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Date: 2006-09-08 05:54 am (UTC)Aha! But I can't! This school isn't big on science (hence the BA, not BS...I think bio is actually the only science major they have) and they don't offer organic chemistry!! Score. I could still do the biochem and calc though...um...YEAH, that probably won't happen. The one thing I'd sort of miss out on would be that I'm kind of curious about/wouldn't mind taking physics, and you've got to take calc first. No big loss though, I don't want to take it THAT badly (oh, I'm also interested in astronomy, maybe that's why I don't hate physics--chem's really the subject I feel closest to hatred for).
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Date: 2006-09-08 06:29 am (UTC)Awwww, I love squirrels. The ones in our garden are always stealing our cherries though.
Eh, but anyway, one just HAS to love them. Too cute.
more like a *feeling* that...just, something bad is coming. No, please. :/
Uh-uh naah, stay away from S., something bad! You hear me?
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Date: 2006-09-08 06:33 am (UTC)btw, it's also "dishonest" in my last email and not "unhonest"... *sigh* I remembered that when I was falling asleep and didn't feel like getting up again to tell ya.
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Date: 2006-09-08 01:02 pm (UTC)Good times, good times.
Biochem I aced. General Chem, I aced.
Orgo? Had to take BOTH over due to abject failure. I swear to God, it was like the Professor suddenly started to speak Klingon when Orgo rolled around.
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Date: 2006-09-08 01:21 pm (UTC)'K, here's the deal, I "accquired" them from "places" online, and I don't have a DVD burner. I could burn the files to disc though...and you could watch them in Quicktime or Windows Media?
Does that sound cool?
You'd have to send me your address though...(since we ARE dating, you shouldn't be too squicked out at that? ;P)
*sigh* I'm supossed to send 'em to
Thanks fer liking my Shower!House icon. It's teeny, but it's the first one that I made like, all by myself.
Oh, and thanks for liking my squirrel story. I really love it, it's a nice memory.
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Date: 2006-09-08 01:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-08 01:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-09 03:25 am (UTC)Should I wait 'til you e-mail me and add my address to my reply, or should I not count on that and just do it now? ;) Oh, and you're not the first one from around here to get my address, you know. :) ;)
In which Sam is OnIt! for a change
Date: 2006-09-09 01:15 pm (UTC)Unpredictable, no?
Send me your address!
Do it!
Wait, OTHERS have your address? Who are these OTHERS and what have you been hiding from me?
*taps foot, impatiently*