island is pronounced i-land

Right now I'm hunkered down in lab 3 because I can't figure out where ichthyology is supposed to be meeting.  Or if it is supposed to be meeting.  This mornin' I had some close encounters with the college kind which were, as per usual, lame and made me want to go back under my big warm rock where there's peanut butter and those good trader joe's chocolate truffles. 

On the bright side, islands are full of birds!  Just full of them!  Here is a baby Glaucous-winged gull.  The ones here right now are not this cute because they have lost their speckly down and have resorted to following their parents around making soft peeping noises.  I saw one try to eat a piece of red algae yesterday. 


For those of you who DON'T live in the northwest (not that you will ever read this), I am living on San Juan Island in the San Juan Islands.  That's right.  I live on the one that the rest of them got NAMED after.  The ORIGINAL ONE.  It is shaped mostly like a pointy pork chop, or like a elephant seal with a disproportionately fat body and skinny head upside down.

Right now I live in an awesome house with some people named Winter, Beth, and Scottie who are all older and more cool than I am.  They listened to Neil Young last night and ate curry and watched a horror movie from what I cold tell as I hid on my bed.  I ate chicken flavored top ramen and ate trader joes vanilla yogurt with mango chunks for dessert because I couldn't find the can opener to eat some canned pears.  They have 2 cats and a bunny named Roy.  The fatter cat--Feldspar, I think?  Came and sat on my bed this morning as I got ready to leave.  She is the softest thing.  Actually the bunny is the softest thing.  They have crates and crates of records and all kinds of yummy food and i suspect they cook a lot.  Winter is an artist and there's all these awsome paintings/collages on the walls and in crates.  Apparently there's an art studio, but I'm not sure where and I'm afraid to use any supplies. 

It's sunny outside right now.  It's already thursday.  I'm tehtered to my computer waiting to hear if I can switch my classes so that I take the Pelacic Ecosystem Appretinceship.  I think I might head into town.  Fo to ACE harware and look for a doodler that will magically make me be able to plug in my computer back at the house.  Maybe I'll swing out to visit my old eagle friends at Hunt's Point.  I wonder if they've migrated inland. 

If and when I have internet, I will attempt to keep all of you (the one of you) caught up on my fascinating life.  I wish I had a camera to document things I see.