Totally not paleo-related at all, but this is my friend Marie and her friend Lauren performing a really fantastic cello arrangement they made of the theme from the show Firefly. Give it a listen with headphones! And if you haven't, go watch Firefly, it's a great show!
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Once upon a time in the West...
Wow, looking back on this blog I started four years ago, it's really kinda funky to see where I was and where I've come.
Hi everyone, my name's Taormina (Tara) Lepore. I'm 26 and after a lengthy soul-searching delay working as a chemistry lab technician at Wyeth/Pfizer, I have gone back to my true passion and applied to graduate school in paleontology. I'll be starting my M.S. in Museum and Field Studies at CU-Boulder in a few weeks, and I'd like to use this blog to keep my friends and family up-to-date on my latest adventures. My boyfriend Dave, the awesome guy that he is, moved out here with me from the Boston area where we both grew up.
Wow, in the time since my last post, I have met Dave, took the dreaded GRE, applied to grad schools two years in a row and learned a lot more about where I really wanted to be, worked hard in chemistry manufacturing and development labs for three years, I had eye surgery, my old kitty Cuddles passed away, my sister Katrina graduated high school, I sold my Jeep and bought a Toyota, friends have moved around the country and around the world, and so have I.
It's funny how life changes. I've never been more excited to start on a new adventure, though, and Dave and I really love our new life in Colorado. I've always loved the west, ever since I first set foot in Wyoming to conduct field work as a volunteer when I had just turned 17. Now we're living out here, and everything from the mountains to the open plains to the summer thunderstorms and the way the prairie grass and sagebrush smells--it's awesome.
To keep busy during the summer before classes start (in two weeks!) I've been volunteering a couple of days a month at Birds of Prey, a local raptor rehabilitation center. Mostly I clean mouse and rat cages, and then chop up dead mice, rats and quails for the birds to eat, but it's been a really neat experience helping these birds and meeting really nice new folks.
This fall I have been fortunate enough to receive two 25% assistantships, which means that my tuition will be paid for and I'll have a little more money in the bank every month. I'm very grateful and excited to be working on fossil footprint collections with Martin Lockley and his crew at CU-Denver, as well as the museum collections at CU-Boulder with the lovely team there.
Next weekend I'm visiting my good friend Patty who is from Idaho, she and I are meeting up halfway in Evanston, Wyoming to explore...whatever the hell there is to do in Evanston :) I hear it's a pretty nice town. Looking forward to it, because it is going to be....the shiz.
Hi everyone, my name's Taormina (Tara) Lepore. I'm 26 and after a lengthy soul-searching delay working as a chemistry lab technician at Wyeth/Pfizer, I have gone back to my true passion and applied to graduate school in paleontology. I'll be starting my M.S. in Museum and Field Studies at CU-Boulder in a few weeks, and I'd like to use this blog to keep my friends and family up-to-date on my latest adventures. My boyfriend Dave, the awesome guy that he is, moved out here with me from the Boston area where we both grew up.
Wow, in the time since my last post, I have met Dave, took the dreaded GRE, applied to grad schools two years in a row and learned a lot more about where I really wanted to be, worked hard in chemistry manufacturing and development labs for three years, I had eye surgery, my old kitty Cuddles passed away, my sister Katrina graduated high school, I sold my Jeep and bought a Toyota, friends have moved around the country and around the world, and so have I.
It's funny how life changes. I've never been more excited to start on a new adventure, though, and Dave and I really love our new life in Colorado. I've always loved the west, ever since I first set foot in Wyoming to conduct field work as a volunteer when I had just turned 17. Now we're living out here, and everything from the mountains to the open plains to the summer thunderstorms and the way the prairie grass and sagebrush smells--it's awesome.
To keep busy during the summer before classes start (in two weeks!) I've been volunteering a couple of days a month at Birds of Prey, a local raptor rehabilitation center. Mostly I clean mouse and rat cages, and then chop up dead mice, rats and quails for the birds to eat, but it's been a really neat experience helping these birds and meeting really nice new folks.
This fall I have been fortunate enough to receive two 25% assistantships, which means that my tuition will be paid for and I'll have a little more money in the bank every month. I'm very grateful and excited to be working on fossil footprint collections with Martin Lockley and his crew at CU-Denver, as well as the museum collections at CU-Boulder with the lovely team there.
Next weekend I'm visiting my good friend Patty who is from Idaho, she and I are meeting up halfway in Evanston, Wyoming to explore...whatever the hell there is to do in Evanston :) I hear it's a pretty nice town. Looking forward to it, because it is going to be....the shiz.
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