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it's been a while... but now i have to vent......

why is it that I'm the voice of reason, and that I have all the logic... it's simple.. if you have responsibilities, take care of them...i'm not passing judgement, i'm just calling it how i see it... i feel like i am the only one with my head screwed on correctly...aarrgg... everything was so much better, and now it's all gone to shit...maybe things are different... but i don't wanna be the one to have to fix things... if i do, then it's all gunna go to shit cuz ya'll ain't gunna like what imma tell you... you're so caught up in thinking that people are judging... but maybe it's not all the people that are wrong, maybe there is something wrong with you... i hate that i'm one of the younger ones, and i have to be the one to show it to your face... i don't care what you think, you know what i say is true... gahhhh... you people have given me great advice before and have been there to support what i think is right, and i am trying to be there for you too, but sometimes you make it hard... i feel like you guys are wandering off the path, and i don't think you mean to, you're just on the path that makes you feel good... but that's the thing, it can't be all about you... take a look around.. everything you do effects the lives around you... just do me that favor, take a look, and really investigate what is happening... tell me if you think i'm wrong, then tell me why i am wrong, and i'll show you i'm right.. logic is on my side... evidence is on my side... ya'll have gone completely nuts...and out of control......

wow... it's been a month and three days since i've updated... a lot has happened in those three months... so here's the run down:

Cabrillo: July 30th had marked my one month at cabrillo... and within that time i learned how to clean tanks, set them up, and help kids do their research project.  I had begun to get close to those who I had worked with... it was fun... i got to really learn about the people i work with... most of them drama issues... so once again drama has surrounded me... one of the dudes, Alex, had left and we had a going away lunch and dinner... lunch was at the aquarium... and dinner was at Rock Bottom in downtown Long Beach... lunch ended with 2 of our aquarists and both of my supervisors playing dodge ball... it was entertaining to watch... that night, was the dinner... long story short, i watched one of the aquarist and my direct supervisor get drunk.. it was funny... and i even joined them in a couple of drinks... dude.. they had 5 pitchers of beer to themselves... FUN TIMES... haha.. and of course my supervisor, who's only like 2 years older than me, unloaded all the drama that was goin on in his life..... yeah... anyway... then we tried goin to Gameworks... but of course they were carding and had a cover charge LAME  but yeah...me and my supervisor had become close after that night..hahah... and it was sad to see Alex go cuz he was nice... kinda girly... but nice... oh yes... and the update on the jellyfish... below is the life cycle of the jelly fish...

we have the planting stage called polyps... ALMOST THERE!! hha.. but yeah. that's excitement for my facility... other things... oh we have pipefish babies that are cool... they're getting big... anyway... so my internship officially ended the 20th of Aug... and it was sad... my head supervisor brought me cookies on his last day of seeing me... my supervisor/ coworker, Andres bought me lunch   and i bought donuts for the whole lab and my volunteers...and my favorite volunteers, except one, came for my last day and worked with me.. it was fun...good news is, even tho i'm not working there, i'm kept on payroll... and until a position opens up, i'm not paid... but i can cover any shifts that need to be covered... and i get to keep my keys fun times.. my last day was sad... so sad in fact, i was sposed to be gone by 1 (after lunch) but was delayed until 130.. but didnt end up leaving til 4 becuz i wanted to go to a beach sane (where you go out into shallow water and collect whatever you can) we got some pretty cool stuff...a leopard shark a horn head sculpin and dwarf perch...and a lot of cool other things... that was fun... and i got to goof off one last time with my volunteers... imma miss working with all the lab assistants and my volunteers...

social: dane's brothers came down...we went to dinner, and played games.. fun times....Allison's bestest friend/ twin came from maryland... allison had a party... we got loads of drunk and i had a major hangover at the children's place and even threw up... haha.. fun times... me allison and diana had a reunion trip to disney that was tons of fun... short, but fun... we've had an ice cream party... we went to go watch a movie together.. this summer i've seen dukes of hazzard and the forty year old virgin, both funny and worth seeing... allison's birthday and jean's birthday has just passed... for allison's birthday, we had a present party... and i made her a cake... and we watched half of a cinderella story... all tons and tons of fun..

that's all i've got... i've been busy doing all of that.. mostly work... yay! school starts next week.. i'm excited! the boys are gunna be here by the end of the week... i'm ready! MY MOMMY'S COMING TOMORROW... WOOOOT :excited: ok... i'm done now... you can go back to ur lives now...

bye! love you all...

jenn

so officially ended my 3rd week of my internship at the cabrillo marine aquarium... and so far... it's pretty cool... i love bein the nursery...and the weirdness of bein the newbie is fading... so.. i'm having fun... taking care of fish... trying to create fish... and just overall working in an aquarium... some pretty cool things have happened in the past couple of weeks... i experienced my first grunion run and milking a fish... yes... i said milking a fish... well not really milking... just squeezing the sides of the grunion to extract its eggs or milt (semen)... anyway.. that was cool... and way fun.. it's fun running after those squirmy lil bastards... haha... another cool thing was that we have black jellies in our possession.. the cool thing about them is that before 1999, they were only mentioned in literature in the past century 4 times... so that means they're pretty rare... and because the ones we have were washed up against the harbor, it means they're pretty beat up and ready to die... but we can extract their gonadal tissue (reproductive cells) and through a process called in vitro fertilization, get some baby black jellies that we can put on dispay in our aquarium... so i got to take part in making black jellyfish babies... here's a pic of one of the jellies we got:

but yeah... other than that we are waiting for our pregnant pipefish to give birth, he's due any day now... yes... i said HE... the pipefish are cousins to the seahorse, which means the males carry the babies... so it's cool... here's a picture of him:

yeah...work's fun... we have these baby sea horses that are soo cute, but one is sick which is kinda sad, and i hope he's gunna be okay... but yeah.. other than the animals, the people are cool... a bunch of marine bio freaks like me, that i can talk to about classes and teachers, cuz they all went to Cal State Long Beach, and i can go to for help with this stuff.. i'm excited...and i'm totally ready for school to start...as odd as that sounds... i've been working 7 days a week, and i'm exhausted... but it's all worth it, right? but anyway... there's my update... i hope ya'll are doin well... and ur summers are eventful and what not... kay... byeee

my adventure at the ER

prologue:

so growing up... i practically grew up in the ER, mostly cuz me and my bro have chronic asthma, so when we couldn't breathe, or had a really bad reaction to something, that's where we went... through those experiences i've learned, the ER is a happening place, lots of people, with problems... and that you could be there for HOURS.. so.. the point is, when you have to go to ER, be patient, don't panic, help is coming...

story:

date: Jun 2, 2005

time: 9ish

setting: my apt, alone-- my roommate had gone to the movies, chatting on aim with nate and allison-- nate was helping me connect the PS2 to the TV, over aim-- pics sent, insructions, the whole bit

so, in the process of tryin to figure out how to get the PS2 to show up on TV, i lean back on our circular glass coffee table-- why i didn't just sit on the floor, i denno-- and CRACK, the table breaks right in the center, and my hand encounters a sharp piece and a laceration in my right palm occurs... i run to the sink to wash it and see how bad it is... decide it's a big chunk, so i call allison, tell her i need to go to the ER and that i will explain why when she gets here... i grab my phone, keys, and purse, walk to turn off the tv and run out the door... doin all this nonchalantly by the way... allison gets here, with megan in the passenger seat and then asks me how to get to Kaiser, i tell i don't know but she should cuz she took diana during the xacto knife incident... but of course she forgot... so megan calls 411 and gets directions... we're on the freeway... all the while everyone is calling me and allison, because apparently word gets around fast that my hand went through the glass table... haha... so we get to the hospital, while im talkin to anthony, and allison pulls to the front and asks if i want to get out... i say no, one...because i'm on the phone... and 2 because my hand was not bout to fall off... so i finish my conversation, we walk in to the ER which has maybe 15 ppl waiting in the waiting room, and no one in line-- YESSS--.. soo the RN comes to the desk, tells me to fill out stuff... of course i can't cuz it's my RIGHT hand that's cut... so megan and allison fill out stuff for me... i go into the back room, where i wait about 10 mins, listening to the kid next door cough up lord knows what and refuses to have his temp taken... and he nurse comes in to take my vitals and temp... and tells me that as soon as a room comes up i'll be helped... i'm thinking great this is gunna a while... i got back into the waiting room where a line has formed with about 10 ppl... and i decide that i prolly should call my mom, who yells at me for joking about my injury, after btw allison has yelled at me cuz i wasn't being "serious"... haha.. any.way.. i go back inside, while allison walks out to talk... while talking to megan, about 15 mins later, my name is called...GOOOD... hhaa... so we go into the room... i sit on the bedbench thing... and megan decides she wants to play with the controls, so she does... and like me is very nosy so she looks through all the drawers and cabinets...haha...

so after 15 more mins of waiting... my dr finally walks in... omg this guy was frikin hilarious... totally monotonous, stiff, lurchlike...soo funny... he walks in...looks at me megan and allison, asks me what happened... i ask him how is nite is going... he looks at my hand... and has no emotion... soo funny... so he walks out to get whatever kit he needs... me and allison look at each other and totally lose it... soo funny.... he comes back... fixes the bed thing so that i'm comfortable and then asks me how old i am, i tell hiim 20, and he was like you look younger than 20.. GREAT... starts unpacking stuff, i tell him i'm allergic to latex, so he has to go find some nonlatex gloves, comes back and preps my hand for sewing... totally drenches my hand in saline and iodine... i tell megan and allison that i hate needles, so he tells me when he's ready to stick the awful thing in my hand, and they get up to hold my other hand and distract me while i'm being worked on...so the needle goes in... i turn my head and i close my eyes, feel in the stinging... and slowly feel the pain subside... i open my eyes to see megan and allison look at the what the doctor was doing... their faces were soo funny... it was a mix between digust and fright... they were scared for me i could see it... i told them i couldn't feel it, so it was okay... after the second stitch i wanted to see it... cuz they had already started asking questions like, why is there so much blood and why was it puffy... so i look over, see my bloody hand under the towel thingy, and i thought to myself, interesting... and he was ready to do the third stitch, so i look back over at megan and allison, and he finishes up... in that time we were joking about something, and i started laughing... he told us that we really have to calm down...so we did... and he finished... cleaned up his part... and left my bloody hand on the lil table that he worked my hand on... fantastic... told me the nurse would be in to clean me up, and i'll be out of there... 5 mins later someone comes in, thinkin it was the nurse.. it was the lady asking me if i had insurance.. WELL DUH... i wouldn't go to kaiser if i didn't have any... haha... and then she left... and 20 mins later... the pool of blood in my hand had clotted, and the iodine had completely dried and my hand was yellow... the RN finally came anc cleaned my hand up, since everything was dried up, she had to scrub scrub scrub, which hurt... that sucked oh well.. but atleast it was done and we could finally leave.. i checked out and was home in bed by 1230... we were only there for like 2 hours... record time i tell ya!...

it ws funny cuz that dr guy kept talking to megan and was really friendly with her... allison was checking out the buff asian guy nurse and was hoping that he would be the one to come clean up my hand, but he wasn't...oh well... that's my story

soe things to learn from my story: in an emergency, don't panic... try to make the best of the situation, if ur pleasant with the ER staff, they'll be pleasant with you... don't lean back on ur glass furniture... and... gashing ur hand sucks cuz now i can barely grip anything and hardly write... i'm working on it, but my hand is real sore...it sucks.. oh well... cool thing tho.. not everyone can say they have matching scars on both hands haha ok.. well.. hope to see ya'll on saturday!!

jen

First post of the summer!! excitement is overcoming ur body... i know it.. i can feel it through this computer screen...

so this week of no school, a lil work... and LOTS of sleep has been quite SLOW... haha.. tis all good...i got to spend a lot of time with nate before he left this morning... we've also spent a lot of time with our neighbors across PCH.. ya'll know who you are... i'm just awaiting the phone call from diana to give the okay to come see their apt... haha... but anyway... this week has been full of lots of tv watching and alcohol, in moderate amounts, not drunkeness amounts...some main highlights of the week include carrie winning american idol, crossing PCH multiple times, disneyland, fireworks, parade, block party, almost sleepover, animal house, hub parties, the longest yard, and the MOST IMPORTANT: NEW BED!! yessssss.... bigger and better! haha... although sleeping on the floor on top of 2 sleeping bags in the middle of my room was fun, i love my queen sized bed... it's absolutely wonderful... okay moving on...

oh... we tried very hard to look for kiki at target this week, it didn't work, first it was me and nate... but we couldn't find her, then it was us and allison, and we still couldn't find her... sad times, i wanted to see her and say hello.. haha... but it was very exciting to see adrian working at his lil kiosk.. he was wearing a hair band (cute!) hehe... anyway... yeah... i'm excited to start my internship soon, and i'm excited to go home for my bro's graduation.. it's official, my bro's gunna graduate! wooooot... lemme know if ya'll wanna take a road trip with me up north, okidae... i wanted to tell some memorable stories, but i'm drawing blanks... DAMN...haha...ok well take care...

CROSS PCH DAMMIT...

Jenn

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