LAIP Journal, Tues Week 21. 9:30AM-6PM

6:55 AM - What excitement and adventure does today hold?? Today began with an early morning trek across the Pali, aboard bus 55 enroute to Windward Mall! Right on schedule and…SHIITAKE! WHEW*** Thank goodness I opted for shrimp instead of Spam© in my lunchbox full of fried rice today when crossing the Pali, otherwise I might be late! (unfunny)
8:40 AM- Ahh yes, here we are at Windward Mall…NOOO!! The van to Coconut Island is leaving!!! *SIGHHHhh I guess I’ll wait for the next one. At least I got into a great chat with a scientist who just got back from Palmyra working on the dying coral down there. (cool)
9:30AM-12:30AM – I’m finally here at Coconut Island in Megsie’s Lab. The sorting of various invertebrates, namely “other worms” (non-polychaetes I think), commences. I count at least 50 non-polychaete worms before I realize how badly I need coffee and music (Thanks for the coffee and I-pod Dj MegaMegz!). Megsie’s sample’s are soaked in formalin with a dye to expose the invertebrates. Our job is to remove these invertebrates from the forest of debris using tweezers (good looks on the straight tweez Leila!) and isolate them in a solution of ethyl alcohol where Snrta. Megs can do her thang. (I hope I got the terms and processes correct.) (interesting, yet monotonous)
~11:30AM 1:00PM– Feeling the effects of just coffee in my stomach. I came across a funky octopus shaped looking organism amidst the sea of worms and sediment. (wired)
1:00PM-2:00PM – BLAAAAAH (fatigued)
2:00PM-6:00PM – LAIP interns arrive! Everyone’s working on their upcoming presentations. Sawako and I found some diagrams we will use for our posterboard, including a mangrove food web, and old pics of He’eia pond. We reaped fruitless efforts using Excel (curse you!) to make a graph of the carbon isotope data of Thalameda and shrimps in the pond. I’m pretty much a zombie strung out on caffeine. (undead)
6:00PM onward – Thanks for the ride to the mall Dr. Lemus! Thanks for waiting for me while I got pizza Martin..I hope you found your desk! (In fine, im fine)

Top: Found a pic of a food web justin time
Middle: The smell of formalin in the lab made Ti throw up the shaka.
Bottom: Q: What kine fish you catch on the internet? A: Fi---sHHHHHHH!