RAWR.

So in a week I will be on a plane to Costa Rica. Shit yes. This has been taking up a majority of my time lately, but I think everything is taken care of at this point, so now I just get to be busy with all of the other fucking things I have going on. Ha.

I'm working on a redesign for MAGANRORD since we're getting a bunch more attention these days. This awesome journalist, Matt Baume, came out and let Logan and me show him around and talk about birds for his piece about the three main islands in the bay. Check it out. He's also been giving us some love/links in other articles of his on various sites, so it's pretty damn awesome. We've gotta keep the momentum going.

I'm also super busy/stressed trying to plan for school. So much shit needs to be done before I even register for classes and I have all of these meetings I have to go to for course planning and transferring and financial aid and such. I'm just trying to get this shit done, and if that means being mad focused and hectic then so be it.

That's sort of just scratching the surface of all I have going on, but really, who wants to hear me bitch about projects and commitments and such? Let's just say, updates here have been lacking for a reason. However, I hope to have a giant one full of a billion pictures of birds and nature and tropical paradise in a couple of weeks. So stay tuned.

Bird Nerd to the max:

My species list for yesterday:
1. Red Tailed Hawk
2. Red Shouldered Hawk
3. Brandt's Cormorant
4. Double Crested Cormorant
5. Brown Pelican
6. Western Gull
7. Ring Billed Gull
8. Snowy Egret
9. Great Egret
10. Black Bellied Plover
11. Unknown Species of tiny, tiny Plover
12. Unknown Species of medium-sized Sandpiper
13. Killdeer
14. American Coot
15. Unknown species of Tern
16. Crow
17. Common Raven
18. Black Crowned Night Heron
19. Mallard
20. Tons of little tiny songbirds that I have no idea about

Not bad for hanging out at a coastal pond for half an hour.

Best. Conversation. Ever. (also the most surreal)

(9:12:37 PM) Marie: i all of a sudden became an adult with like...aspirations and shit
(9:12:46 PM) Marie: ambition and motivation and all of that jazz
(9:12:49 PM) Marie: it's fucking weird
(9:12:56 PM) Charles: thats not adult
(9:13:03 PM) Charles: thats white kid bullshit
(9:13:04 PM) Marie: haha
(9:13:11 PM) Marie: no way
(9:13:16 PM) Marie: white kids are jaded little fucks
(9:13:40 PM) Marie: who think that cynicism equals authenticity
(9:13:45 PM) Charles: hey!
(9:13:51 PM) Charles: GETTING CLOSE TO HOME
(9:13:59 PM) Marie: YOU RESEMBLE THAT STATEMENT
(9:13:59 PM) Marie: ha
(9:14:15 PM) Charles: I've been an adult for far to long
(9:14:24 PM) Marie: yeah you have
(9:14:26 PM) Charles: almost as much as I've been rebelling from it
(9:14:30 PM) Marie: i'm not gonna be that kind of adult
(9:14:33 PM) Marie: i don't ever want a car
(9:14:34 PM) Marie: haha
(9:14:44 PM) Charles: the tattooed world traveler kind?
(9:14:47 PM) Marie: i just wanna go run around and study anipals
(9:14:49 PM) Charles: wait, I rule
(9:15:03 PM) Marie: and eventually settle down in a northern european country
(9:15:10 PM) Charles: Finland
(9:15:14 PM) Marie: that would be awesome
(9:15:20 PM) Marie: anywhere with good social services really
(9:15:23 PM) Marie: and awesome art
(9:15:27 PM) Marie: music etc
(9:15:29 PM) Marie: and good nature
(9:15:36 PM) Charles: you're going to end up knocked up by a viking
(9:15:42 PM) Marie: haha i think i'd be ok with that
(9:15:55 PM) Charles: I'm sure
(9:16:46 PM) Marie: I've been talking to a lot of visitors at work and I swear, the happiest ones, the ones that never seemed stressed or like assholes are always from like denmark or finland or sweden or the netherlands
(9:16:57 PM) Marie: even the germans seem pretty chill compared to americans
(9:17:54 PM) Charles: dude
(9:18:00 PM) Charles: I think I have to take a shit
(9:18:05 PM) Charles: because of you
(9:18:09 PM) Marie: exciting
(9:18:10 PM) Charles: you make me shit
(9:18:10 PM) Marie: haha
(9:18:35 PM) Charles: you know I get the trots when hippies are around
(9:18:40 PM) Marie: hahahaha
(9:18:56 PM) Charles: no but really
(9:18:58 PM) Charles: good, go
(9:19:01 PM) Charles: be happy
(9:19:04 PM) Marie: I will
(9:19:05 PM) Charles: fuck a iceman
(9:19:07 PM) Marie: haha
(9:19:10 PM) Charles: it'll be grand
(9:19:11 PM) Marie: it's like a 10 year plan
(9:19:14 PM) Charles: make me the god father
(9:19:20 PM) Marie: dude I will
(9:19:26 PM) Charles: but don't leave that nord to me
(9:19:33 PM) Charles: or I'll make it so fucking metal
(9:19:47 PM) Charles: it'll shit hippies and burn down churches
(9:19:50 PM) Marie: and I'll name my kid Bas in honor of my long lost viking bff
(9:19:54 PM) Charles: yeah
(9:20:31 PM) Marie: haha
(9:20:34 PM) Marie: hilarious
(9:20:42 PM) Marie: you can teach my kid to burn down churches
(9:20:44 PM) Marie: i'm chill with that
(9:20:55 PM) Marie: i've seen like every black metal documentary that exists
(9:20:59 PM) Marie: those guys are pretty cool
(9:24:55 PM) Charles: maries gonna have babies
(9:25:06 PM) Marie: hahaha
(9:25:09 PM) Marie: tiny vikings
(9:25:20 PM) Charles: they'll end up like toki
(9:25:24 PM) Charles: kinda pussy
(9:25:32 PM) Charles: but still cool
(9:25:34 PM) Marie: hahaha