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I found the sea slugs at work today.
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Saturday, February 9, 2008
Friday, February 8, 2008
Escapades at work
My new job has been going pretty well. Although I'm primarily kept in the reptile department and haven't gotten much experience at all with fish, inverts, or aquarium set up yet, I'm still having fun. Handling snakes is way better than folding clothes. Working with hundreds of reptiles leads to some interesting happenings, though:
- I had 3 snakes snap at me one night. I was wearing gloves, so they couldn't have bit if they tried. I think they also realized that I was bigger than them so latching on wasn't a good idea. It was still interesting, though.
- A blue gliding tree frog leaped out of its cage onto my hand when I opened the door to the cage. The next night he latched onto the water bowl and stayed there while I took out, rinsed, and refilled, the bowl. Adventurous little guy.
- I got impaled by a large iguana's lovely claws my second night at work. Blood running down my arm and everything. To date that's actually my only injury, surprisingly.
- Last week I got bit by a caiman (nasty little alligator relative, worse temperament than gators). I was wearing gloves, so it didn't hurt, but I'm not eager to find out what that bite would feel like without gloves.
- Last night I lost a frog. I was supposed to move him from "inventory" to the show room and had to clean his cage first. Most frogs at work are slow, sedentary, and nocturnal - you open the cage and they don't go anywhere. Not so with this guy! (Actually, I think the throat was white, it may have been a girl). Anyway, so when I opened the lid to reach for the water dish, the frog shot out of the catch and leaped behind the freezer. Ohhh, boy. So, I moved the freezer a foot out from the wall, as far as it would go, sat on top of it, and started rummaging around in the random crud that had fallen behind it over the last year. Tried to catch the frog with a little net, numerous times, but unsuccessfully. After an hour of on-and-off looking, I eventualy gave up, cleaned up behind the freezer, and had pushed it back when: there's the frog, sitting in the middle of the floor. Surprisingly, he let me put a net over him, and I got him back into his cage. I put a different lid on it and a VERY heavy rock to keep him from getting out. It was quite the adventure!
Lots of other interesting and random things happen at work. Most people think I'm slightly crazy for it, but I think it's a fun place to work.
- I had 3 snakes snap at me one night. I was wearing gloves, so they couldn't have bit if they tried. I think they also realized that I was bigger than them so latching on wasn't a good idea. It was still interesting, though.
- A blue gliding tree frog leaped out of its cage onto my hand when I opened the door to the cage. The next night he latched onto the water bowl and stayed there while I took out, rinsed, and refilled, the bowl. Adventurous little guy.
- I got impaled by a large iguana's lovely claws my second night at work. Blood running down my arm and everything. To date that's actually my only injury, surprisingly.
- Last week I got bit by a caiman (nasty little alligator relative, worse temperament than gators). I was wearing gloves, so it didn't hurt, but I'm not eager to find out what that bite would feel like without gloves.
- Last night I lost a frog. I was supposed to move him from "inventory" to the show room and had to clean his cage first. Most frogs at work are slow, sedentary, and nocturnal - you open the cage and they don't go anywhere. Not so with this guy! (Actually, I think the throat was white, it may have been a girl). Anyway, so when I opened the lid to reach for the water dish, the frog shot out of the catch and leaped behind the freezer. Ohhh, boy. So, I moved the freezer a foot out from the wall, as far as it would go, sat on top of it, and started rummaging around in the random crud that had fallen behind it over the last year. Tried to catch the frog with a little net, numerous times, but unsuccessfully. After an hour of on-and-off looking, I eventualy gave up, cleaned up behind the freezer, and had pushed it back when: there's the frog, sitting in the middle of the floor. Surprisingly, he let me put a net over him, and I got him back into his cage. I put a different lid on it and a VERY heavy rock to keep him from getting out. It was quite the adventure!
Lots of other interesting and random things happen at work. Most people think I'm slightly crazy for it, but I think it's a fun place to work.
Friday, February 1, 2008
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What do you do when someone dislikes/resents you? Do you ask for forgiveness...or pray for God to allow you to forgive them for disliking you? Or both? I think usually we just stop associating with that person and move on.
What if it's a close family member?
Maybe this is just practice for if I ever have teenage children of my own; if it is, I don't think I do well with family disliking & resenting me, and I'll be in trouble then.
Jesus declared new siblings and parents for himself; somehow I don't think that's the model he had in mind for us.
So what do we do? How do we reconcile within ourselves an irreconcilable relationship?
What if it's a close family member?
Maybe this is just practice for if I ever have teenage children of my own; if it is, I don't think I do well with family disliking & resenting me, and I'll be in trouble then.
Jesus declared new siblings and parents for himself; somehow I don't think that's the model he had in mind for us.
So what do we do? How do we reconcile within ourselves an irreconcilable relationship?
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