Spanish was my mother's first language, so I've always wanted to become fluent in it. :) However she refuses to speak it with me (she doesn't look Mexican at all, and my Aba raised her to "pass as white", so she has a lot of discomfort associated with it :( ). Latin and Ancient Greek were...
Oh cool! I used to live right down the street from the NWYC :). Much agreement on the pollen count... Those dang cottonwood trees are my nemesis. Does the NWYC send you different places all year?
Re: migrating, my parents were both extremely religious and also fed up with how expensive...
Omg cyanobacteria <3 <3 <3. They are ancient, supa cool, and also... adorable under a microscope. I named my rats after them. Euglena is rat-shaped (bottom-heavy potato shaped :D), and its flagella looks like a tail. Also very quick. Though at least the rat would come back when you called her.
Vonnegut is one of a handful of authors from my old high school reading list I came across while I was moving house, which I had never read in school... I had an awesome, curmudgeonly Literature teacher. There were only enough students to separate us into two classes, and mine was the second one...
Hi! :) I'm glad this place exists. This is one of those book series I am almost constantly re-reading, and I've often wished that there were some sort of Aes Sedai-esque society out in the real world. I didn't remember until recently that the internet is a big place, and I might want to look...