2008

Happy New Year!

May your new year be filled with love, laughter, happiness, and good health.

 Oh yea,

                           GOOOOOOO  DAWGS!!!

Whoa...it's been awhile. 

Life has been hectic for me lately...comparing to the nice tropical vacation I just had with the parents.  Unfortunately, now back to the grind.  July and August are vacation months, people have been taking off left and right, including myself.  We all have to fill in for each other.  Life for me basically is revolved around work these days.  I am begining to like retail more and more comparing to hospital.  Sure, you deal insurance problems and ignorant customers.  But I enjoy the people I work with because of their personalities.  I have always had a good experience with retail while interning.  Nurses with attitude and arrogant doctors are just getting on my damn nerves, especially residents who think they already know it all.  Enough of me ranting about work.  So what's going on with everyone else?  A lot people have gotten married in the past few months, hopefully I will be getting invitations for baby showers soon!  Come on married people, get to "work" . 

That's all for now, til next time.

B-day

Graduation Day!

Had a great but bittersweet graduation day!  I'm gonna miss working with everyone at AMC, especially my partner in crime, RW.  Just want to give a shout out to my dawg, hope we'll get to work together again one day. 

My vacation officially starts now....!  Gotta go pack now.

3.5 more days.....til unemployment or freedom depending how you want to look at it.

I had the scariest bug encounter the other day.  The bug I tried to terminate looked like it came from the dark ages and the worst thing was it hissed at me when I tried to pick it up with a paper towel!  I nearly wet my pants when I heard the hissing noise.  The thing looked like the bug below.  I did a little research on species similar to this one. 

This is what the entomologist had to say:
It's the two-lined walkingstick, Anisomorpha buprestoides.  In the case of the pairs, they are mating, and the smaller one on top is the male.  It's a common walkingstick in much of Florida, but you do have to be careful with them.  They will spray an acidic defensive chemical from the end of their abdomen.  They often aim for the eyes, and the chemical can cause pain and temporary blindness.  Pets often experience this.  They feed on foliage, probably of various hardwood trees and shrubs.  I've kept them in captivity for a while and fed them oak leaves.  In the populations around the Ocala National Forest, the stripes are a much brighter shade of cream/white than in other parts of the state.  If you have internet access, take a look at these websites for pictures and more info:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mark.watson/psg12.htm
http://www.woodbat.co.uk/am.htm
Lyle Buss
Insect Identification Laboratory
Department of Entomology & Nematology
University of Florida

FYI:  The links don't work.