I got "yelled at" today for not marking down what I had fed the animals yesterday morning. It was more just telling me I need to really make sure I mark down what I feed and to which animals. So besides causing chaos by not marking down what animals I feed(what can I say? I'm just a rebel at heart. Ask grandpa Micky, he gave me coal for Christmas) I cleaned the windows of the tanks with these floating magnets. You put the magnet that goes in the water in this fuzzy sleeve/pocket thing and wrap a towel around the other one and stick them to each other, one in the tank and the other on the outside. You then wipe the inside of the window off by moving the outside magnet around. Very clever I know and know I didn't come up with it ;) So I got the magnets out and I didn't realize they were so strong. I was holding them and they suddenly clapped together skinning one of my fingers. That really sucked be it was worth it because while I was cleaning the window for one of the tanks something priceless happened. :D Those females who have short hair I'm sure have been called a man before. This doesn't bother me. But at least I was given a gender. I now know how the "its" feel. I was a "nothing" three years ago and now I guess I've progressed on to an "it". I was cleaning a window and a mom with kids walk by and I hear the mom say, "Kids, do you know what the man *short pause* woman *shorter pause* person is doing? They are cleaning the window with magnets so that we can see the fish." I couldn't help but laugh a little. I was called a man multiple times while cleaning the windows but that was the only massive gender confusion I got :) Other than that magnetic fun I got to spend a good portion of the day driving to the airport to pick up some new fish with one of the works, his name is Noel. Sadly this isn't my Noel but an older gentleman. My Noel is stubbornly waiting six months before showing me his face in person, jerk.... ;) The ride wasn't bad and before I knew it the day was over.
After work I bought some Tim Tams which are famous Australian cookies. They are pretty freakin awesome. Maybe if it's not too expensive I'll send a few packets home.
Today was kind of a crazy day because the day started out with only 3 of us and ended with a ton of people running everywhere. I did both the morning and afternoon feeds by myself so I'm hoping that I marked down what I feed and to who because I didn't get my "yelling" today until after I finished feeding. They got a new huge ray and so that showed up half way thru the day. After they put it in the big tunnel tank a few of us went to release a turtle. Dad, I'm sorry you paid for 26 weeks because after two weeks I'm starting to think that marine biology isn't something I want to do when I get back. Aunt Tara, you can celebrate because that means I probably won't be living on one of the coasts. Maybe it'll change as I get to work with more animals and different animals but so far I don't think this is something I really want to do for the rest of my life. It's a lot of fun and I'm learning a lot but I think I like things that don't swim more. I know that I don't like being out on the ocean. Bleh!! I found that out the rough way. I shouldn't have been surprised because I got sick on our cruise but when we went out to release the turtle I very nearly puked. At first I was thinking it was so cool and I felt like a pirate with the sea breeze and the waves, but after a minute of that I was ready to be on land again. It was cool tho because I was able to see some humpback whales and a sea turtle on our way out. Humpback whales are migrating thru the area right now so that was really cool. We didn't get close to them because the dove down deep to get away from our boat but it was still cool :) All the same I was very glad to get back into the little channel with flat water. I don't think I'll be doing that again anytime soon. I had intended to stay late today and take pictures but no way that was happening today, not haver the boat ride anyway. Tomorrow I'll get pictures for sure. Just you wait.
Tim Tam Slams! Love ya Kaiya, keep up the good work :)
ReplyDeleteHey pirate sister,
ReplyDeleteYou would make real lousy pirate...don't go into that line of business.
Just so you know, they sell Tim Tams here in the states on occasion. I have had them before actually. And it sounds like Laura has too. So don't worry about sending us any of those, find something better. ;-) Clay says a koala bear would do. Heh hee. Sounds like fun times at UWW though, glad you are enjoying it even if you do not really enjoy the slimy water logged critters.
Keep having fun. Love ya.
Clistan.