in junior high, my friends were all about "totem" animals: what animal embodies your characteristics. jon was a weasel, jaime was a something, and they christened me an otter."because you like to play and have fun," they said.
hey, that sounded good to me, and it seemed to hold through high school and beyond (my fascination with cows was a separate matter).
cut to last week. while i haven't taken the time to calculate it, saying that we spent 40 hours in the lab seems to little. i'll speculate somewhere in the range of 50+? it was enough devotion that i did not attend my uvu class at all that week, that i was there until past midnight most nights (sometimes much past), missed two of the movies i most wanted to see all semester at the international cinema (as well as missing "the nightmare before Christmas" in 3-D for the first time in four years), and did not do a thing for halloween.
but i did make it to one i.c. movie with a group of friends, hosted movie night, came home one evening in time to let everyone in and watch "the office", spent a few hours with the harry potter book club, took time to visit with my sister and her family, squeezed an hour to go costume shopping with my brother, and stumbled home after midnight one night and stayed up to watch "transformers 2" with some friends (and riff trax).
and today i realized it: john lennon may be the walrus, but i am still the otter.
3 comments:
isn't hermmoine (sp?) an otter too? or am i mixing her up with someone else?
Yes, her patronus is an otter, which is very fitting, since they are both very inquisitive and clever.
i like otters. kookookachoo
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