Just a little update on life...

Summer '09:
After graduating in May I went straight into an internship at the “Oceans of Fun” facility located in the Milwaukee County Zoo. “Oceans of Fun” is a year-round seal and sea lion facility. Over the summer it was home to one Atlantic harbor seal and four California sea lions. I stayed as a volunteer until the end of September. I also got scuba certified over the summer.

Fall '09:
In November I attended a week-long conference for the International Marine Animal Trainers’ Association (IMATA). It was in Atlanta, Georgia, it was a blast. I got to spend one of those days with the wonderful at the Georgia Aquarium. She’s awesome person and photographer, go check out her gallery if you are not familiar with her!

Winter/Spring '10:
I applied for the winter/spring marine mammal internship at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago and I did get accepted! The internship lasts from January to mid-June.


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First of all, Submit your best artwork for the Amazing Art April feature! :[link]

Second of all, an update on life.

I'm am in my senior year of college, I will be graduating in May, I can't believe that is coming up so soon. I spent last summer doing research on copepods in Newport, Oregon and I presented my research a tri-beta (BBB) regional conference. BBB is a biology honors society. I won first place for oral presentations, and my friend Kat won third place. I get a grant to present at the national conference next May in Colorado.

Thirdly I HAVE AN INTERNSHIP THIS SUMMER!!!

I'm really excited about interning at the Oceans of Fun in the Milwaukee County Zoo this summer. It's unpaid, but of course there aren't many paying opportunities that give you animal experience. My friend and I both got it, so we are pretty excited to be spending our time working around sea lions this summer. Hopefully this is my foot into the door for what I want to do with my life. Some of my professors have expressed that they feel I'm selling myself short, they want to see me go to graduate school. I may go eventually, I don't see why I have to go right now. I don't quite understand why they aren't happy for me because this internship is giving me the opportunity to do what I've been wanting since I started college, and why I chose to get a Biology degree. Anyway, in the end, it is my life, and I'm excited about the internship.

Art Status:
-I'm wrapping up my entry for Okura's contest!
-Still working on Lunchi's dragon character (dragons are hard!!!)

A THANK YOU TO MY WATCHERS I APPRECIATE YOU SPENDING TIME TO LOOK AT MY ART!

Hey Guys!!!!

I see that I am approaching 12,000 pageviews. I wanted to make this offer for 10,000, but I was too busy with school work. Now it's winter break so I have time on my hands. I'm putting a warning out for my avid watchers, if they catch my 12,000th pageview, I will draw/paint something for them.


Happy Holidays!!!

I decided to write a journal before it was the end of another year to update anyone who's interesting in what I've been up to.

I'm happy to be done with Genetics and Human Anatomy & Physiology classes-not easy, and I've still manged to keep a 4.0 somehow.

This semester I'll be taking an Animal Behavior course, I'm very excited about taking that class. I will also be taking Ecology, Organic Chemistry II to start on picking up a chemistry minor, and I have a research class where I will have to write a proposal for a research project by the end of the semester...yikes.

This past November I made a trip to Indianapolis with my friend Ashley to attend a one day seminar on animal training by Ken Ramirez for the IMATA conference. Yeah, that was awesome and exhausting.

Over break I saw Phantom of the Opera in Chicago at the Cadillac Palace...very cool.

As far as artwork, well I had hoped to get a lot of stuff started/done over Christmas break, but I didn't. I guess I'm more inspired when I'm busy and don't have time to be artistic . I did start another digital painting in Photoshop. I chose one of OrcaAmbition's pictures (I have permission). I hope to surprise her, unless she really wants to know which one I chose . I'm probably halfway done with it. Currently I'm just working on details, shading, background and stuff .

Wow. The last journal I wrote was exactly a year ago. This time I've completed my 2nd year of college. Craziness.

I'm almost at 7,000 pageviews. I'll draw something for whoever gets my 7,000 pageview, if there's anyone out there who wants me to draw something .

I've got a lot of unchecked messages. If someone has something they submitted they really want me to look at go ahead and leave me a note.

This past year I have been working with Photoshop so I haven't been unproductive at all. Currently my access to Photoshop is blocked because my laptop is acting up. So as soon as I can get that fixed, I'll be able to work on my Photoshop projects.