8:31 p.m. - 21 February 2007
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If I am making an entry, I'm clearly not dead. I also have not been updating as often as I once was. That has a lot to do with no internet and nothing new to report.
Right now I'm hanging out at the library and catching up on my e-mail and stuff. I also had some mail to send out.
One thing funny though, I got an e-mail from my dad about wolves killing a moose. Now, I don't know how other states outside of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming feel about wolves but they are clearly a 'hot topic' mostly becuase Wyoming is trying to remove to wolves from the Endangered Species list. This will only happen if they come up with a plan other then total elemination.
Anyway, so this e-mail had three pictures of a wolve pack attacking an adult moose. They tag-line for the e-mail said "this is what the wolves are going to our wildlife". Something like that.
this may sound like crazy talk here, especially with all the anit-wolf people around, but the wolves and the bunnies and the bugs and yes, even snakes and sharks have been on this planet a lot longer then humans. Preditors, such as sharks and wolves don't kill 'pretty' like humans with a gun. Any documentry on the Animal Planet will tell you that. Very rarely is the prey fully killed before the festing begins.
Sorry if this grossed any one out, but this is the truth of the story.
So what does this have to do with my wonderful state? Well...people are worried that wolves will kill off all the wild game and then attack their livestock, or livestock then wildgame. The general public kind of forgets that preditors, large or small, help to keep the things they like (birds, butterflies, flowers) in balance.
In short, this whole issue is a big giant mess! The stats of wolves killing livestock vs. wildgame don't matter and one 'red-neck idiot' said the wolves will even eat children! Never mind the fact she is living in a logging town that when it was settled wolves were all over the place and never bothered any one.
What bothers me the most on this issue, and you can even apply this theory to many other issues, fears outweigh reality and facts. People don't want to accept that maybe they are wrong about anything. I know I've been wrong on many accounts. If I thought I was wrong I went and checked my facts.
Ok, enough of the soap box.
I've mentioned this to several people but I'm going to say it again. I'll be heading to Texas this summer for an internship at a zoo. I have never been to Texas and don't know what to expect. I know I won't have to worry about finding housing. I am going to have to worry about finding a real job once I'm finished with the internship. I have promissed myself one thing: If I do not have a job working in a zoo by the end of a year, I will go back to school and get a teaching certificat. I have a science degree and that is where the big push is right now so I know I won't have a problem finding a job once I'm through with that. But I'm going to try the zoo thing first.
Oh, and I got a promotion and a raise at work.
That's where I'm at right now.
~*~Dream Dancer~*~
