various things

as a reply to emily: no, it's not because i'm particularly good at it...i don't think i am. for one thing, i cannot say "merrill shop, this is elizabeth" for the life of me. i just can't say it. and, i have to ask questions a lot. but anyway, it's because dan is going to the regular shift, leaving me the only person doing it at night. why can't ipod guy, you ask? because he has the day hotline time. only 3 people have daytime hotline at this point, because of circumstances i don't feel like discussing at the moment. my manager said that if she put ipod guy on nighttime hotline, the remaining two would probably quit, because doing that from 11-5 every other week would kill you. nighttime isn't bad, it's 5-7 and hardly anyone calls. but still it sucks, considering it will be really difficult to, let's say, go to the bathroom. you can't leave your desk when you're on unless you get someone to watch it, and we all know how good i.g. is at that. tonight he left at 6:30, tomorrow he's leaving at 5. wtf?!

 

anyway, enough of that. i just warily looked at my checking account and was shocked at how much i have. it's not an incredible amount, but it's more than i've ever had at one time in my life.

 

segue-ing from that, today's weather was a lot like london's and it made me really sad, because i wanted to be there. it was painful to think about. this morning as i was walking to my car and into work i decided that in my life i'm going to live there. at that moment and now, still, it's more important than any other lifetime event to me. getting married, having kids, updating my damn website...i honestly could live without all of that, as long as i can live there. but, that's me talking right now and of course that can change. but probably won't change that much.

 

there was a picture of this new species today in bbc news.

 

 

isn't that disgusting looking? it's a crustacean that lives near hot-water vents at the bottom of the ocean. i think it looks gross. mostly because it's "thorax" area looks like...a thorax. ok, so it's not an insect, but it damn well looks like one. apparntly it is blind and bacteria live in the "hair". relatedly, i remember learning that a lot of interesting and undiscovered species live at these depths near hydrothermal vents and also sulfur vents. we never discovered them before because, how the hell would we? it's at the bottom of the ocean in water temperatures well above boiling and containing toxic chemicals! we also learned that most of them are micro-organisms, esp. the ones in the sulfur vents. i just hope the bigger ones aren't as ugly-looking as this "crab" guy here. ewwww.