November 29

Today was yet another adventure. The schedule was back to normal; no more tracking. Of course, I was lucky (haha) and my normal was 4:30 am chum. Which actually is better than having it in the evening. Anyhow, we went out and towed some boogie boards that are painted like a seal and an orca.... nothing. Again.

Then we chummed. We saw nine sharks which was really cool.

You know what wasn't cool? Getting off the boat and back to the harbor at 10 am and not getting picked up until 12pm. True story.

One of the vans broke apparently and this just so happened to be the day that they took the other van out of town so we had to wait for it to get back. I have really good luck if you haven't noticed.

For the two hours that we waited we literally laid on the concrete ground and slept. We looked like homeless people. For real. Especially since we all had on crap clothes for chum. It was actually a really nice sleep. Surprisingly I wasn't angry about the pick up situation because honestly, sleeping it what I would've been doing back at Boland.

I'm reasonable sometimes.

I have also found that people here have a hard time telling when I am being serious and when I am being sarcastic. I have struggled with the all my life and I think it's off putting to people in charge. Oops.

Also I feel as though people are confused about my presence here. I am too. But not really. My rationale is how do I know what I want to do with my life if I don't try lots of things? So, I worked in a wet lab and tried lab research. Then when I was in France I did computational work. And now, in Africa I am doing field work.

When I was working the wet lab I thought it wasn't for me, but now thinking back I think I really enjoyed it. Especially compared to computational stuff and way more than this field work. But I would've never appreciated the joys of wet lab work if I didn't tried the other two.

I know, if I truly enjoyed it I would've known from the beginning and fell in love.

Good joke. That's not how I work.

I work by process of elimination.

Why did I major in Chemistry?

Not because I loved it but because I hated it the least.

I think the same reasoning will be used to decide the type of research I pursue for the rest of my life.

Anyhow, this afternoon I was back at the aquarium. My first time this week. That was weird. We had a short shift because the field specialist, Brahm, had to get picked up for a meeting.

Now I am in my room, watching Criminal Minds.... just like home.

Yesterday I watched Space Jam and it was the best day of my life. Seriously though, I had been wanting to watch that movie for FOREVER.