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[bmccasland]

I wonder if I could pass for a biologist
.
What kind of biologist?
I collected data for a stream study in 2004. Can i put that on my resume ?

Have a college degree? Or two?
Do you know what NEPA is?
Want to live and work in a banana republic? Be fustrated by local politics and Federal politicians? Come on down!

[Aggie_Ama]

I tried to tell my husband to humor me and take a gander, he is a saltwater fisheries biologist by education but he tells me when you have been out four years wihtout working you are no longer a biologist. So I guess I am now married to a botanist?

[Blueberry]

Have a college degree? Or two?
Do you know what NEPA is?
Want to live and work in a banana republic? Be fustrated by local politics and Federal politicians? Come on down!

Don't you want to hire a lawyer? I know what NEPA is And I'm used to finding ways around road blocks (politicians and politics)

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Well, it's a Saturday, 27F, no wind, and SUNNY....
DH and I are going to try a bike ride! I think we'll have to keep it pretty short, maybe 12-15 miles or so, since it's cold and I am out of shape from a whole winter of almost no riding. It's supposed to creep up to 32-35F this afternoon....we'll see. Keeping hands and feet warm below freezing is always the challenge.

The "passing for a biologist" thing reminds me of that episode of Seinfeld where George is at a party and tries to impress a girl by making up the story that he is a marine biologist. Then they go on a date at the beach and this whale comes up and becomes beached and the girlfriend frantically urges George to do something!, ...since after all he's a marine biologist.

[Duck on Wheels]

I wonder if I could pass for a biologist
.
... ?

or two?

[uk elephant]

I'm just stuck here in Wales working all week-end. Too much needs to be done to be able to go visit BF. And he has too much work to get done to be able to come visit me. Trying very hard to stay motivated to get lots done for the remaining two weeks before we are together again so that I will have time to do stuff with him when he is here.

And I am a biologist, seeing as I am working as one at the moment, but I don't know what NEPA is and would rather not have to deal with politics so I think I'll pass on that job...I'll just get back to that manuscript I need to finish and those lectures I need to write. there is nothing worth watching on tv and I don't know anyone in town to go to the pub with so I have no excuses for not working.

[Zen]

My degree is in photography but I know where Nepal is

[Selkie]

Lisa, I hope you got out on your bike today!!! You deserve it, after the winter you've had this year.

Yesterday, I noticed that the crocuses are coming out. Several lawns in our neighborhood get carpeted in them -- my annual sign that spring will get here before long.

February is half over, too.

Happy VD everyone!

[uk elephant]

Despite this being the coldest winter in ages with more snow than in many many years, the daffodils are already poking up here... makes me hope that spring is just around the corner. I'm looking forward to warmer weather and longer days soon when I can have time to enjoy it!

[uk elephant]

Got my manuscript sent back to my advisor. One thing crossed off the list that has been weighing on me for a long time.

Think I will celebrate with a bowl of rice pudding. Mmmm......

[bmccasland]

Don't you want to hire a lawyer? I know what NEPA is And I'm used to finding ways around road blocks (politicians and politics)

Have enough of them. DOJ nicely provided us with some extra ones. OK, it has this thing to do with a little law suit about the levee breaches post-K.

Got my manuscript sent back to my advisor. One thing crossed off the list that has been weighing on me for a long time.

Think I will celebrate with a bowl of rice pudding. Mmmm......

Congrats on getting the manuscript out of the house. I would have gone to the pub with you. If you were looking for a bad influence to not get things done, come here... It's CARNIVAL! Parades almost every day! Especially on weekends.
Rice pudding? You sure you don't have some southern blood? That sounds yummy, especially warm, with rum sauce.

I have an Army Captain flying down this week to do some damage control on a refuge where she didn't coordinate with the Refuge folks like she was supposed to. So we're field tripping to look at their levees. Hopefully she isn't flying back out on thursday - I plan to corrupt her. There are Mardi Gras parades to attend. Need to get the chickie out of the green suit, into civies, and make her wave her arms in the air, begging for beads.

NEPA - National Environmental Policy Act
http://www.nepa.gov/nepa/regs/nepa/nepaeqia.htm
if you want to read the act.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa...tal_Policy_Act
If you want the Wikipedia version.

It's why I go to work. Or something like that.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Elephant, sounds like you got a lot of good work done today. That's satisfying.

No we did make it out today- the wind made it too cold again. We have hopes for tomorrow though, to get on our bikes for a short ride.

Last night the power went out all over our region for 2 1/2 hours...never found out why, but it was rather annoying. One second you're happily working on your computer and stuff is humming all around you...and the next second you're hurled into total blackness and silence, left to thoughtfully contemplate all the freshly fragmented brain cells on your hard drive and to formulate your blind Journey of Danger downstairs to the kitchen drawer where the flashlights are.
I made tea in the open fireplace though, which was fun in a 'frontier' sort of way. Water boils VERY quickly over red hot coals.

I put up 3 online blogs these past few days, which was fun. Ah, the boundless enthusiasm of the newbie blogger...
Heck, the music related one actually even serves a purpose!

[Biciclista]

ok, since this IS thread drift; I present to you:





note photos are on my own website

[Zen]

At least it's not lunch time.

[Biciclista]

yeah, really.