I just got hired (2 weeks ago) as the Director of Education at the California Wildlife Center in Calabasas/Malibu. So far, it's been great working here-- the California Wildlife Center has a great philosophy, and it's just refreshing to be working with people of the same mentatlity as myself.
I'm currently working on Environmental and Animal Curriculum for presentations at schools and community group meetings; the main theme of what I'll be teaching is Co-existing with wildlife. Also, I volunteer in the animal hospital nursing orphaned, injured, and sick animals. Sometimes I go out on animal rescues (we rescue marine mammals in Malibu). So, it looks like this is going to be a really rewarding job!!
Right now I'm living in Wrightwood (and commuting a ridiculously long way to work everyday), so Bryan and I are probably going to move somewhere around the Santa Monica Mtns. this year. Bryan is working as a Geologist for an Environmental Consulting company where he does Phase I and II assesments. He likes his job, but really misses geology fieldwork and mapping (school) and is applying to grad schools at UCLA, CalTech, and UCSB this Fall.
We also recently got a kitten. He's all dark gray and has an energetic and playful personality. I named him Ziggy after my favorite music artist, Ziggy Marley. We've had him for a month now, and really love him. I still miss my kitten, Irie, that died in Jamaica, but having Ziggy has helped. I know it might sound stupid that I'm so sad over my cat dying, but she was like a little child to us. I haven't wanted to talk about what happened, but, when we took her to a vet (one of the 3 veterinarians on the island) to get spayed, the vet overdosed her on anesthesia and she died 4 days after the operation. It was AWFUL -- Bryan tried to give her CPR, and we had to bury her, and none of the Jamaicans we lived around or worked with could sympathize because no one has cats for pets over there.
Lately, when we're not working, Bryan and I go hiking a lot and want to get into SCUBA diving in CA. We also are looking into buying a kayak. Saturday is the first football game of the season for UCLA; Bryan, my parents, and I always used to go to all the home games at the Rose Bowl, so it'll be neat to get back into all that.
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