Well two weeks in to living in my new place and things are coming along fairly well I'd say. It's been a smooth transition for the most part. All of my squeaks are here and I've got plenty of space in my room to have several out at a time. The only part that's been grating on my nerves at all has been working in the garden center at Walmart here in town. I could rant for hours on how stupid things get but I'll shorten that and simply say it's a giant clusterfuck. I might have to do a compilation of all the stupid crap that's happened already at some point just to give folks a laugh one of these days.

I am still looking into getting a master's degree in biology so I can finally get my tuckus into doing something that is actually worthwhile. Currently my focus is on Colorado State over in Fort Collins, Colorado. I will say one thing and that is that grad school hunting is a massive pain in comparison to how college was. Everyone expects you to know exactly what field of research you want to go into, yet there's no way of really knowing until one actually does it. My main problem is I've never really had that one calling or whatever it is. I find ecology as a whole very interesting but I couldn't really pick just one aspect of it and say "that's it". If my Bachelor's was too broad, grad school stuff seems to be too specific. I'm attempting to get into contact with a few folks over there so they might be able to help me sort that out a bit (the head of the program happens to be from my original hometown and graduated from my former college).

One thing I have noticed living in this new place is I've been a bit more sensitive to stuff for some reason. Setbacks and whatnot have easily made me feel down as of recent. I guess I'm just getting really eager to finally make something of myself, especially considering it's been nearly two year's since I graduated.

Finally as to not end things on that whiny note, I've added a few more squeaky animals to my menagerie who will likely end up in my gallery at some point next week.