ancalagond

After much waffling, "No I'm done with social networking sites, even if they do contain hot naked ladies..."
"Well, maybe I could stick it out. Try and make friends"
I've decided to stay. As a part of this effort it seems I better start posting. That and my writer's group hasn't been meeting due to the holiday obligations of its members. So... today was unfortunately crazy as much as I tried to brace against it. But accepting the responsibility of the care of 90 or so exotic animals was rather intense.

Oh, context. I work at a children's health and science museum which just installed a rainforest exhibit. I'm now the weekend animal care coordinator. But the top coordinator left for Michigan for a week. So now I'm /the/ coordinator. Yikes. In return for chopping and peeling fruit for an hour and scrubbing up bird and bat guano, I got to witness several firsts (which I consider awesome, you may think them creepy)
1. scorpion drinking
2. held an emerald tree boa
3. watched tomato frogs make crickets disappear faster than you can blink. I hate crickets.
4. chameleons tongue-zapping crickets. Bonus! And they turned bright green b/c they were pleased to be eating.
5. nearly got clobbered by a chittering kinkajou b/c he smelled the fig newtons I was carrying for him.

Right. I could go on, but I feel my imaginary audience losing interest.

-D.