Love for Science!

After a solid 3 weeks of teaching gradeschool children about coastal ecology, I can honestly say I feel closer to our environment and more excited about science that I've been since I was little!! This sentiment has also afforded me a lot of new knowledge about whales, sharks, beaches, saltwater marshes, and succession. The main reason I took leave of science is because I got burned out of trying to become a doctor, which is a bottleneck field and very competitive.

Health is fascinating, interesting, and totally saves lives, but the pressure, responsibility, and expectation started to become overwhelming.

I chose to involve myself completely with computers and digital technology:
: Textbooks are free online -- there are so many how-tos
: It still satisfies my logic and analytical predisposition
: You can still help others through digital means

Now, it seems, I am torn between the two with my new profession:

All this nature has led me to a new level of romantic where I am looking inward and upward more, but truely feeling nature nurture and ground my life in a way that gives me peace. I used to get this nervous tick when I wasn't near a computer for an extended period of time, but now I can enjoy and appreciate being 'unplugged' for a stint.

I can definitely see how your stereotypical 'hippi' can be so mellow and see how things are so related. From chaos theory to an emotion, there is an echoing movement of consciousness or some harmonic that oscillates truth. . .

The beach is nice. I am lucky. I love science!

Marriage in the Air! (not me)

So recently I found out two of my very good friends in Charleston will be getting married! And they want me to be their best man!!!!

Darren and Kim Cumbie? It has a nice ring to it! It truely is going to be an honor to be in your wedding!

Kim and Darren both enjoy the vintage/beachy atmosphere of Charleston, SC.

Kim is an Editor/Statistician and Darren is an IT analyst.

It's another wonderful excuse to travel to Charleston too :D

So congrats you guys!!! And thanks for all the help you provided me when I was living down there. I couldn't ask for better friends...and now you will be Married!!