Day 13 - A Mirage...

Woke up at 5:00 a.m...my God was that painful..showered and reread my oral until 7:00 - I was falling asleep, so I napped then woke back up at 8:00 - practiced until 8:30 and ran off to the lecture hall...I was number 3!!!

Well, it went fabulous! I hardly looked at my notes and got a nice hearty round of applause after.

My topic was on Marine Pollution and its effects on Marine Mammals. My favorite lines being "a false sensation of satiation..." (say that 10 times fast)...and then "we claim to be an empathetic and responsible species, then it is time we start showing it by taking action against our past regressions and cleaning up our aquatic environments..." and on and on...I was very happy with myself and am glad I worked hard to pull off a fab oral :)

But, all that hard work has made me sleepy and grumpy for the rest of the day...listening to all the other orals was like pulling teeth...my eyes were heavy, I was thirsty, hungry, figitty...

We decided to go have a pizza supper down by the lab at the picnic tables all together - what a terrible idea! The mosqitoes, black flies and fire ants were everywhere! I was ready to scream!! Help me! I want to go home! Haven't these people heard of insecticides!

LOL! As I just finished preaching on how terrible organic pollutants were and how they invaded our waters and slowly killed off marine mammals...

Well, after running back to the residence, I am prepared for a night of review...the exam is on Sunday and I haven't even begun to review.

Oh yes, the picture above is a mirage that we saw last night on the boat, the fog was so dense around the trees on some little islands that the trees were reflecting off the fog...how cool is that!

xxx

A