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Saturday, April 7th, 2007
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Sunday, February 11th, 2007
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About two weeks ago I gave a tour of Santiago Park to 20 3rd graders. And it actually wasn't so bad. The kids were incredibly well behaved. They always raised their hands when they had a question or a "statement".
We had four stations set up throughout the park for them. One of them was the artifact station where the kids informed me that not one of them knew what an abalone was. After that we went to the wildlife viewing facility where they actually were able to keep quiet for 5 minutes straight. The point was for them to heighten their senses and pay attention to the noises that they usually ignore. Like the train passing by... And oh the excitement that a ladybug caused! I won't even mention the gosh darned squirrels. The kids weren't nearly as excited to see a scrub jay caching an acorn but I was enough for all of them.
We then used them for child labor at the "Restoration" station. 10 plants in 30 minutes isn't too bad. The group before them had been excited and disgusted about earthworms, and I was able to get them all concerned for the earthworms survival. They made little homes for them in the soil.
And now to my favorite part of this story.
We play a game called "Oh, Deer!", but I frequently refer to it as "Predator, Prey" out of habit and because they are vocab words for the day. The kids are lined up, and one among them becomes the herbivore. They can be a bunny, a deer, or whatever else they can come up with. The rest of the kids are habitat. The habitat then has to run to the safe zone before the deer can tag them. Once the deer has tagged them they become deer. This is repeated until you have all deer and no more habitat. So now is when the kids are asked what is missing in this system. "What do you need to lower the number of deer?" or "How do you keep the deer population under control?"
My two favorite answers:
"We take a break?" Asks an exhausted child.
And
"The deer kill themselves?" A wide-eyed girl asks with a sad look on her face.
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This recieved some very concerned looks from me and the teacher and a hug from the teacher.
Oh children.
At the end, when asked what their favorite part of the tour was one child responded, "the mourning doves."
These are the good things about my job... And I have to keep remembering them amidst all the horror that is a city job.
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Lovely picture from a recent hike: http://picasaweb.google.com/amaris/SantiagoParkNaturalistFiles/photo#5030350775653013106
(Not dinner friendly)
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Monday, January 8th, 2007
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Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
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Thursday, October 12th, 2006
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| Time: | 3:58 pm. |
| Mood: |  frustrated. |
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I know this seems to be the only sort of entry I make these days, but oh well... Anyone on my friend's list a Microsoft Access Guru? I need to design a database for the Park Naturalist program and I know quite a bit about Access, but I have trouble reading the forums for some reason. Even though I know some Visual Basic, coding is a bit tough for me. I don't like the interface.
For example... One of the tables is called DailyLog and has entries about the days events. I want this all to be switchboard interface and as simple as possible for the user.
So I want them to be able to click on something that says Enter a Daily Log and up pops a form where they can enter ONE log and not navigate through the rest. I have this done. Pretty straight forward.
Next, I want an option for Edit Daily Log. Now there are several ways of doing this part.
1. Form window with a list of entries in a combo box where one could be selected and then hit a button to get that entry to pop up in edit mode with no option to navigate through the other entries
2. Have the user manually enter a date and staff initials. Would be easier to implement than 1, but then the user has to know what the date is. And doesn't mean that it would only be one entry. Date is not a unique field or whatever.
3. Open all entries and give the user the option to navigate through all and maybe figure out some intuitive way of using the filter option.
And I'm sure there are more, but I want to be able to do 1. I don't want to give the user too much of an option to screw up other entries (like they could in 3). But I can't for the life of me figure out how to do it. I think I can get the combo box to show up... but then it has to be creating a query and opening the form and I just have no idea... And I guess I need to make a completely separate but identical form to the "Enter Daily Log" form in order to implement this, right? Can you get a query to open a form somehow? I can only get it to open a table but I know there's got to be some way.
So yeah... Just the start of my troubles and I'm sure none of that made any sense, but it was worth a shot.
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Monday, September 11th, 2006
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Hey folks, just thought I'd update ya'll on what I've been up to these days. I have an internship at UCI in the School of Medicine working on a cute little cnidarian called Hydra. I'm also working for the city of Santa Ana as a Park Naturalist Assistant (technically my title is a Park Maintainance Assistant).... Aaaand living with Jared in Irvine. Sooooon we get to have puppy living with us too. Yay!
And it would have been really nice if I coulda posted this from my Dashboard Widget but nooooooo....
Back to moina culture!
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Thursday, March 30th, 2006
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Anyone ever sold stock before and had to report it on their taxes? Where the stock was a gift? With reinvesting dividends?
I need help... :-/
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Friday, February 3rd, 2006
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Does anyone here have Adobe Photoshop CS2: Classroom in a Book?
I need the files off the cd... and soon...
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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006
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Saturday, December 3rd, 2005
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I never update this thing, do I?
My heart hurts. :-/ I miss people. And its only going to get worse when I move, but at least I'll be near family.
Love you all, I really do. Sorry about the quiet, just sorting my life out.
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Saturday, October 22nd, 2005
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*proud* Hehe, sorry, bragging.
http://imt.miracosta.edu/IMT125onlineju/1HOMEWORK/Midterm/Dana/
Reviews from classmates:
- I think only one phrase accurately sums up that website. "Those film scrolls rule!" Of course with your great image powers you could have made a really nice background image, instead of the white.
- I enjoyed your page layout, especially the film-like menu bar at the top of the page. One thing I might add that would be more supportive on your index page, is if you express more information. Remember that your introduction page is just as important as your whole site, and it is the key that will attract your viewers attention initially. Aside from that, I loved your easy to manage tool bar in addition to the info provided. Great job!
- Excellent job. I love the scrolls of film that you used for your links, menus, and other misc. things that you put in your website. My sister is in photographer too, and she loves your photos. :p
- You have the best layout that I have even seen. I love that film-like menu bar very much. Do you design it yourself? That’s fantastic! Also you have the clearest and easy-to-ready HTML code. You must be an experienced webmaster. I wish I could be as good as you in the future. Overall, EXCELLENT job!
- Rally professional looking page. I liked using picture as the menu. You could have used black color as the background, also the photography page was fantastic. Really good job
From the prof:
Catherine -
What an excellent site! Love the film metaphor, great images (I need one of a stag for a poster... do you have one?), the frameset for Photos works really well... the elements page is really cool... kudos for trying styles.. everything works perfectly.
Overall - Awesome!
Note to Glenn: Wanna go find some "stags" to take pics of? It would be good for reputation... :D
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Monday, August 29th, 2005
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*blush* I love folk music.
Cat Steven's has the most soothing voice...
And Josh Ritter has some pretty darn cool lyrics.
"Say the west is a story we made up to erase
Conestoga wagons left tracks you can see from space
From the Northwest passage to the Great Divide
Oh everybody's looking for the other side
I'm still waiting for the whiskey to whisk me away
And I'm still waiting for the ash tray to lead me astray
I twist the culdesacs into one way signs
I ain't going round in circles on the other side
So at night I sit and I watch for stars to stay
They wink and then they're gone down the Milky Way
When you're left in the middle of the Midwest sky
Oh everywhere you look is the Other Side"
I just wish I'd discovered my love for folk music sooner. Oh oh! And Ritter will be playing at the Fillmore on Oct 1st! Whee!
Oh... And I should be packing...
<_<
>_>
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Friday, August 26th, 2005
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Please tell me this is the last Friday night for awhile where I stay home doing laundry.
Back in the Bay Area on Monday. Did anyone miss me?
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Monday, August 22nd, 2005
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Thursday, July 28th, 2005
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I'm sure all of you are tired of my rants, but now here's a rant about ranting!
I'm tired of finishing a book and then thinking about how badly it sucked. I'm tired of complaining about the barely sixth grade reading level of many of the bestseller's out there. But I really don't think that it should be that easy to read a book, let alone write it.
I'm not going to mention which writer in particular bothered me so much because I don't want to spark a debate or hurt anyone's feelings, because (s)he is rather popular. But (s)he goes off on these rants on society and tries to be intellectual about it, and fails. Of course everyone knows who big brother is and who orwell is and repeating it dozens of times in your book isn't going to make you look any smarter! Rawr!
Word of the day: Rant
(Note: I also was not very impressed by the last book I read by Vonnegut, and that makes me worry a bit. I'm too picky...)
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| Time: | 6:41 pm. |
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What a let down. What a waste of my time and my energies. If only I had known that all of that time, money, energy, and everything else would lead to NOTHING in terms of a career. That companies would tell me that I had not enough experience.... (Four years of experience just isn't enough experience to get above $15 an hour!) I wouldn't have bothered with the sleepness nights, the headaches, the tears, the emotional trauma, and everything else. So now, what do I have left to do but pay money in order to get certification for SCUBA, CPR, teaching, etc... And take the GREs so that I can pay more money and spend more time getting a degree that will get me NOWHERE. Education is over-rated. Those self-educated "saps" (or, really supposed saps) really have it right, don't they?
I am not in the right mindset to look for a job.
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In Socal right now folks, so I've been a bit distracted. Just to let you know why I haven't been on AIM and haven't been responding much when I am on AIM.
Call me, its a more effective method of getting in touch with me. Just a tip.
Mostly this post was just to check out a new feature I found on my laptop. So many things to learn about macs...
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Okay, I've already written this entry twice, only to lose it once because the computer did not have the correct date set, and the second time because I lacked a mouse and pressed an incorrect keystroke...
I still lack a mouse, so I'm going to write this in notepad to avoid further problems.
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To date I have inadvertently injured myself on the following random objects:
An ice cream carton. I split my lip open.
A quarter. It fell on my toe and hurt like hell.
A keyboard. It also fell, but this time on my fingers and felt as though they had been jammed in a car door.
A dryer. I cut my hand.
A gum wrapper. I cut my hand directly prior to a midterm and had to try very hard not to bleed all over my exam.
A martinelli's bottle. I got my finger stuck between the bottle and the cap and was screaming in pain as my friend had to twist the cap in order to remove it. (Though I found out that I am not the only person to have injured myself in this manner.)
A rooster.
Anyone else have any interesting injuries?
...Or remember any other embarrassing ones of mine?
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| Time: | 4:34 am. |
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Idea:
Since I've always been kinda drawn to tattoos but been too afraid of the permanency and taboo of tattoos, I've come up with an idea...
Tattoo the places I've been on the bottom of my feet. That way it can kinda be symbolic of stepping upon the soils of the many countries I've been to.
Now... this led to an even more ingenious idea... What if I tattooed the leaders of the countries (at the times that I visited them) on my toes? Sooo much fun would ensue. Hours of play time, a lifetime of playtime with my toes. Though I'd have to be picky because I only have 10 toes to fill up.
Any thoughts?
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"The testis is the engine of evolution."
(Short 1997; Hales et al. 1999) from Aitken 2001.
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