The Edge of the world

I have not yet fallen off! (that will happen in January) But what have I been doing? Here is the long awaited update back by popular demand (ok the demand of two people...and my mom.)

10/18 I attended a conference on pollinators...y'know birds and bees.
My mom once taught me something about birds and bees but I had no idea what she was talking about. (I used that line on someone and they asked incredulously how I learned. I answered "trial and error." Fell flat.) Besides that, the conference was amusing on many levels. I did not want to attend originally because a former supervisor was going to be there. This supervisor used to treat me like dirt and made it very very clear that I was many levels below him. He was falsely cheerful and had no appreciation for my dry wit (I mean really). Anyhoo, I decided that I would be uber-professional, dressed the part, and was all set to schmooze on behalf of my organization. Unfortunately I was waylaid into turning the lights on and off between speakers....relegated to underling yet again because I look eternally youthful and energetic. However, I did achieve a certain notoriety as "Lenni the impromptu lighting specialist" and one of my colleagues called my former supervisor a shmuck.
Another tidbit y'all might enjoy: the MC kept asking us to give the speakers a "pollinator welcome." I truly expected the crowd to make finger antenaes and buzzz.
I learned some neat things: There are 54 bumble species in North America. The Post Office gets 50,000 requests for special stamp series. And in certain parts of China, all the bees are gone so people have to hand pollinate. (insert dirty joke that I haven't thought through here)

10/18-10/21 I tutored, had two lovely dinners, got a bad haircut

10/21-10/26 I went to Philamadelphia for the Geological Society of America meeting. I spent most of my time thinking up bad geology jokes. "I want my drink on the rocks", "I bet you're rock hard", "All my faults are normal", etc. I did eat a cheese steak and visited the Liberty Bell. Oh and worked of course.

10/27-10/28 Besides partying a bit too hard on Friday (Hi Laur!), which rendered me unable to party as hard on Saturday (Hi Meg! Hi crew!) I sat by the front door waiting for the mail. I have officially been invited to Peace Corps Bolivia! I will be working as an Environmental Educator in the Natural Resources Program! I leave the end of January so get as much of me now as you can. I have found that Peace Corps has served admirably as both a pick-up line and a go-away line. (By the way this blog is not affiliated in any way with the Peace Corps and opinions expressed here are not necessarily those of the US government and really I don't party that hard. I just stayed up late.)

10/29 Boo at the zoo. I heart Halloween. I love the excitement, the crisp weather, making a costume, walking around the neighborhood etc. I was a smidge depressed at the apparent lack of homemade costumes. I was surprised to see that the TMNTurtles and the MMPRangers are still around. And I was a little upset to learn that my station at Boo was giving away Tootsie Rolls, which I loathe.

This week has been crazy busy as will next week. Don't forget to vote and if you wanna come to the regina spektor concert with me please drop me a line.