Summer wind come blowing in...then right back out again.
What happened to summer? Wasn't it May, like, yesterday? And now it's September.
I'm just going to stop apologizing for so infrequently updating this journal. If I do it more often, then I do it more often, but I'm going to stop feeling guilty about it. All my fannish stuff has moved to Tumblr, most of my real-life updates are on Facebook, and although I still like LJ for posting fic, AO3 is rapidly becoming the first-choice archive (I still like getting comments on LJ, though). Anyhoo.
Update on my life: things are fine.
I am now a fully-qualified, 100% trained docent at the Columbus Zoo & Aquarium! Yahoo! In August I undertook three more weeks of training on the remaining two regions of the zoo (Shores and North America) and yesterday I completed all my mentoring hours. Now when I come to the zoo, I can go anywhere in the entire place and be a docent. I still have a strong affinity for the gorillas, but the North America region is a lot of fun. It includes two different kinds of wolves, river otters, moose, reindeer, polar bears, brown bears, wolverines, grizzly bears, cougars and bobcats, bald eagles and bison.
My final hurdle will be next February, when my first year is up and I stop being a provisional docent and become a regular docent. I'll get a nice new red lanyard to replace the provisional white one!
It's been a weird summer for the outdoor club. The extreme heat put the kibosh on several of our planned hikes, though we did get a fair amount of kayaking in. I participated in an introductory SCUBA class a few weeks ago. One of my fellow docents is a SCUBA instructor (and a volunteer diver at the zoo's aquarium) and he taught the class for me. It was really fun! I don't think SCUBA is a hobby I want to pursue, but I'm glad to have had the experience. Fall is a better time to hike anyway so I am planning a number of outings for this month and next month. October is particularly peak hiking time because fall colors.
This Saturday Rachel and I are going to an all-day Indiana Jones marathon. I hope we don't have to watch Crystal Skull.
Other than that it's been reading fanfic, reading regular books, going to work and to the gym, blah blah blah.
For those of you who are fans of Mr. Cumberbatch I'm downloading and watching the BBC/HBO miniseries "Parade's End" which he stars in with Rebecca Hall and which is currently airing in the UK. I'm assuming it'll air on HBO at some point. It is really quite brilliant. It's very challenging and complex and I love things that aren't afraid of characters who are difficult and full of contradictions. Benedict is brilliant as usual (his ability to totally exude a different person with each role he plays never ceases to amaze) and Rebecca Hall is astonishingly good as a character who is difficult to like but somehow is making me root for her.
Peace out, homies!
I'm just going to stop apologizing for so infrequently updating this journal. If I do it more often, then I do it more often, but I'm going to stop feeling guilty about it. All my fannish stuff has moved to Tumblr, most of my real-life updates are on Facebook, and although I still like LJ for posting fic, AO3 is rapidly becoming the first-choice archive (I still like getting comments on LJ, though). Anyhoo.
Update on my life: things are fine.
I am now a fully-qualified, 100% trained docent at the Columbus Zoo & Aquarium! Yahoo! In August I undertook three more weeks of training on the remaining two regions of the zoo (Shores and North America) and yesterday I completed all my mentoring hours. Now when I come to the zoo, I can go anywhere in the entire place and be a docent. I still have a strong affinity for the gorillas, but the North America region is a lot of fun. It includes two different kinds of wolves, river otters, moose, reindeer, polar bears, brown bears, wolverines, grizzly bears, cougars and bobcats, bald eagles and bison.
My final hurdle will be next February, when my first year is up and I stop being a provisional docent and become a regular docent. I'll get a nice new red lanyard to replace the provisional white one!
It's been a weird summer for the outdoor club. The extreme heat put the kibosh on several of our planned hikes, though we did get a fair amount of kayaking in. I participated in an introductory SCUBA class a few weeks ago. One of my fellow docents is a SCUBA instructor (and a volunteer diver at the zoo's aquarium) and he taught the class for me. It was really fun! I don't think SCUBA is a hobby I want to pursue, but I'm glad to have had the experience. Fall is a better time to hike anyway so I am planning a number of outings for this month and next month. October is particularly peak hiking time because fall colors.
This Saturday Rachel and I are going to an all-day Indiana Jones marathon. I hope we don't have to watch Crystal Skull.
Other than that it's been reading fanfic, reading regular books, going to work and to the gym, blah blah blah.
For those of you who are fans of Mr. Cumberbatch I'm downloading and watching the BBC/HBO miniseries "Parade's End" which he stars in with Rebecca Hall and which is currently airing in the UK. I'm assuming it'll air on HBO at some point. It is really quite brilliant. It's very challenging and complex and I love things that aren't afraid of characters who are difficult and full of contradictions. Benedict is brilliant as usual (his ability to totally exude a different person with each role he plays never ceases to amaze) and Rebecca Hall is astonishingly good as a character who is difficult to like but somehow is making me root for her.
Peace out, homies!
