Still in Flint. Still working 4 days a week. Class 2x week. Not sure when I'm moving. Hopefully soon. I'm going insane feeling so unsettled. ---- Umm I just wandered off and cleaned up my room for a...and relaxing. I need to rework my list of universities I want to apply to, or rather actually make a spreadsheet of them, listing pros and cons. ---- but for now, I need to go and visit my grandparents
Well, I had an interesting week. A week ago Thursday an eighth grader and I found a live bat flopping around on the sidewalk outside my classroom. It appeared to be injured - one wing seemed fine, but... Wish me luck getting my shots moved! p.s. To top it all off, I missed my cousin Robert's wedding ceremony while I was at the ER getting shots, but we made it to the reception in time for dinner.
...in South America come out in vast numbers - upwards of 2 million in a single flock I believe, and each evening at dusk as the swarm emerges, various forms of predatory bird come out to snack on the bats. The bats form these huge cyclonic swarms that make it almost impossible to track them as individuals - which means that for any individual bat the chances of being singled out and devoured are pretty...
From my friend tara's MySpace. Tara is the traffic voice for a number of mainstream stations 'round here and so has to look at all the DOT cams during drivetimes. A couple of days ago, she found this:...between Salt Lake and Park City..... Or maybe he's a little vampire that had to duck into one of those camera shelters to get out of the morning sun on his way home from partying in Park City ..
...items I aquired in the last little bit. So, for starters, another 2 additions to the family. I'm sure you all remember Bruce and Dick: Now, add MORE to the obsession! I HAS MOAR BATS AND ROBINS! And call it synchronism... but originally, I just got the bat, and that same day my auntie gave me the small robin as a gift. Even nature demands they be an inseparable team. Their names...
The World of Bats program will be presented at the Clearwater Countryside Library , Sunday, Oct. 26, 2 p.m. Cyndi and George Marks of the Florida Bat Conservancy will give this interesting and informative presentation on The World of Bats. Living bats will enhance the program, which will include a slide presentation about bats around the world to illustrate their unusual diversity, unique behaviors...
...domestic cats and mountain lions, but black. No, they weren't panthers.* Black is just a really common colour in my dreams. There was a sudden flurry of wings and the cats were gone, replaced with bats. No sooner were the bats circling above my head did they burst into flame - fire is another common element (no pun intended) in my dreams. The fire dropped to the ground and formed dogs. Oh, look...
...breaking the rules. I am apparently not alone in some of my thinking, but I won't get into the details as the email wasn't meant for the masses. Though I doubt anyone but me will ever read this blog, one never knows. All is relatively quiet here on the home front. Not too many bats in the belfry, only that blasted agent of the adversary pissing in the back garden. Oh well. Keeps me on my toes.
Well, next week is our zoo trippp~ I've never been to Chester Zoo before so I'm looking forward to it. I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THE BATS OMG. Matt told me they have biggg fruit bats there, so thats so awesome. And the reptile houseee. Since we're doing our assesment on the rats, we basically have a day out to wander and study the different animals. I can't waittt. Yes, I'm totally getting into this course...
