Olivia Ambrogio is the daughter of friends of ours and has just set up house in D.C. She earned her doctorate in marine biology from Tufts where she researched the sex life of snails. She is also a fantastic short story writer. And you will see what great photos she takes. I wish I had had her with us in Paris.
She has started a blog that details life at the D.C. zoo--just down the road from her new place. Give her a look.
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Guess what I'm reading? The Elegance of the Hedgehog!!! Thanks for the link to Olivia. I'll check her out.
After twelve years in the DC area, the youthful consideration of a career in marine biology, my longest-term frined be fascinated by aquatic snails, and having read Patricia Highsmith's snail stories, which hipped me early on to the rather dynamic sex lives of molluscs, I suspect I'll visit this blog. (At the U Hawaii, I was a triple major. Now that's one way to sink yourself.) Thanks.
Hope you like it, Barrie. It really picks up after about page 75 or so.
Oh, and Todd, she writes/reads fantasy stories. You may be destined for friendship. Triple major! Never heard of triple.
If I remain even modesly coherent, perhaps...my oldest friend being fascinated by such snails (freshwater), which she in fact raises. Though she most recently has been happified by the photo of a live blobfish, a creature that demands proof of existence outside the likes of L'IL ABNER.
My three-year old grandson is more versed on animals such as blobfish than I am. Sad. When was the last time I read the words Lil Abner. Nice.
Triple-majoring can do that to you.(English, PoliSci, Planetary Science [strong geology, oceanography, astronomy and meteorology depts at UH, mostly grad though, then--early '80s]). Yes, I was aiming to be in school for several decades. As it turned out, I took the eventual BA English (Writing and Editing) in 3.5 academic years at three mothers of my soul. Long dull trip it's been.
The blobfish has a certain shmoo-like quality to it.
http://www.diced.jp/~fbi/illust/blobfish2.jpg
Or hit the link on my initials
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