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| Shorter's campus is beautiful. Mature trees doned with lush, green foilage are set against a backdrop of staley Ionic pillars. Lovely brick buildings cast shadows over well kept plots of grass, shrubs and benches. Cast iron gates bear witness to the eons of Shorter's past. They seem to welcome students, both new and old alike; much the same as the warm, inviting stare of a loan officer.
A statue of a young woman with perky nipples and a tight crotch fitting dress sits near the front of campus, inconspicuously, but nobody knows what she is mentioning. Maybe she represents a pagan symbol for fertility, or maybe birth. The archway under which she passes is one of two things; it could be door to the future or a gate opening into hell. I cant place my finger on it just yet. I will however continue my research and devlop a hypothesis o the actual meaning of the statue. Please stay tuned.
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| Im thinking about joining the Navy as a hosptal corpsman. My Pop the former Marine said that if I want to join the service that I would have to run with the Marines or be a Marine, otherwise I won't get my inheritence. I cant say for sure but ibelieve that joining the service for a few years would be a good thing. I like herpetofauna and all, but I just cant say for sure if its my lifes calling. You see, people like to ask me medical questions about this or that assuming that I am a medical doctor because I have three years of Biological Studies under my belt.. I get excited when they ask me these things. I begin to spleal about mutations of receptor proteins, I know the antibiotics they have been prescribed, I know what species of bacteria they are infected with.....I like that sort of thing, medical problems and the associated sciences. Fiorillo is going to hate me, I know it, as is Dr. Adams. But thats just the way things work you know....After a stint in the Navy, maybe I can go back into ecological science. I'd feel bad if I didnt serve at some point. | | |
| Fio, this is what I think about you leaving.....Of all the herpeparichthyoevolutinary biologists in the halls of academia, you take the cake. Yes, when it comes to your teaching habits, you tend to late, lethargic, distracted, tired, sick, hungary, illprepared, or way to prepared (at least compared to the students you are to teach), boring, detailed, confused, derailed, unaware, coersed, and economically poor, but when you act as a herpeparaichthoevolutionary biologist that12.51 percent of the time, you usually do a pretty good job. It's gonna be a sad day when you leave, but its changes that constitue evolution, and in a way your leaving will either make or break those of us who have adapted to your presence. Any move will put you in a place far better than the squabbling halls of Shorter, and you need to do what's best for yourself and your delightful fam, another similarity to what you have tought us as being evolutionary concepts.
Well, to you I say good luck, and God speed.
Kody
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| I had an interesting call at work today....
Caller:Sir maybe you an help me.
Me: I'll do my best.
Caller: WELL I have this tree or a bush, I dont really know what it woud be called and it is completly swarmed with small bees and flies. And I dont know what to do.
Me: Ma'am what kind of tree is it?
Caller:My landlord says its a persimmon tree.
Me:Do you know if its Japanese or American?
Caller:Honey, I dont know. Im not what you would call a country girl.
Me: I understand. Well, ma'am are there flowers on this tree.
Caller:Yes, well there not really flowers, but are like balls or round things with some kind of powder on them. See, another thing what could that powder be?
Me: Now Im not a botanist or anything, but what i beleive is thta these are pollinating insects that are simply pollinating the tree.
Caller:Oh no, should I be worried, should I call 911 or an exterminator?
Me;(Chuckles)Ahh, no ma'am I dont believe that to be necessary, they should go away after the flowers die.
Caller:I have never seen them before could they have been blown in by the hurricane?
Me:(in complete shock)Well, its possible, but I couldnt tell you without knowing the species.
Caller:well, ok , thanks honey.
Me"Your welcome ma'am.
Caller:Bye
Me:Bye. | | |
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