One day left....

So I think this is the longest amount of time I've spent straight living on Catalina Island. I've actually started to appreciate it's beauty and serenity. I went for a few runs along the dirt road that runs from the lab to town, it over looks the Pacific and on very very clear days you can almost see the port of LA 32 miles away. I forgot how wonderful it is to run with no one else around; no cars, no homeless people, no stares, no SMOG! Now if I can only keep my 23 year old knees from falling apart I'll keep doing it. There are a few strange draw backs to spending all your time on this island and underwater:

-You have fairly permanent sunglass lines
-You name the spiders (see pic)
-Your nails grow really fast
-Your skin peels off and itches
-You always think you smell neoprene and pee
-You wear your t-shirts 2 or 3 times (3 or 4 times) and that's perfectly normal

I'm sure I'll come up with more later, but, I'm leaving tomorrow after I give a stupid presentation that I'm not looking forward to. blah! However, I do get to bore a group of 14 year old girls that have to come and watch, hahaha. I mean, hopefully I'll be able to sculpt them into little marine biologists too :)