Here's something to smile about: the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, also known as the Lord God Bird, has been though to be extinct for something like twenty years. There has not been a reliable sighting in the US for over sixty years.

HowEVER, very recently this verdict put into doubt. And even more recently, there's actually been a sighting of an Ivory-Billed Woodpecker in the woods of Arkansas, confirmed by scientists.

YES! They're BACK!!

I don't have much solid information. The information is still being analyzed. And who knows how many birds are left? They could still very easily go down the tubes.

But for now, I think I'm just happy about this. They aren't all lost after all.

Anyway. My day yesterday was so insane. -_- I work at a hand-dipped ice cream stand sometimes, and yesterday I was on the job from 11:30 am to 8 pm. Anyway, when I got there, the power had been tripping on and off for a while... and see, we desperately NEED that power to A) keep the ice cream cold, B) keep the chocolate that we dip the ice cream bars in warm, and C) to keep the microwave running so we can melt more chocolate when the pots get low. So ANYWAY, the technician guy that the opening girl had called finally arrived and hooked the microwave onto a different... power box or something, and then it was okay. But that was not the END of the disasters OH NO.

At about 12:30, it was starting to get busy. It's still just me and the opening girl, and we're expecting another girl to show up... I'm dipping the ice cream and she's running backup. The other worker is late. Twenty minutes. Thirty minutes. We're worried. I'm frantically dipping ice cream. The opening girl is racing around cleaning and trying to reach the girl who's supposed to be here on her cell phone. In the midst of all this, the health inspector pops his head in and says "I'm gonna be inspecting you guys! ^___^" Then he disappears and doesn't come back. I think he forgot about us. However, at the time it was merely another reason to panic.

It turns out that the girl who was SUPPOSED to show up had somehow missed the fact that she was supposed to be working. She was an hour away, in our home town, babysitting. Those of us at the stall panic. The opening girl makes calls frantically, looking for someone else to come in. She has to go on break at 3:30 for three hours and there's no way I can do everything alone.

To make it all even better, the girl who's supposed to show up at two is stuck in traffic back in town because there's been an accident.

Eventually they arrived at last, and the customers all sort of withered away... of course. But in the end everything is okay: we have people, the opening girl can go on her break, we're all sort of pissed with the girl who missed but whatever. She's just a flake. Bah.

And then I got off at eight and got a gyro sandwich and mom took me to the bookstore and I got two books which made me happy yay. So it all ended well.

And then today I worked another eight hours. Nngh. I'm getting paid I'm getting paid I'm getting paid. That makes it okay. Really it does.

I'm actually working two jobs at the moment, the ice cream one and one at a gardening and landscape supply center. It's quite boring but the people are nice and I'm getting money. I just have to keep telling myself that.

Now, to reward you for reading to the end of this, I will say something IMPORTANT: This Monday, the 20th, I'm leaving on a school field trip (for spanish class) to Peru. After that's done my mom and I are splitting off from the group and going to the Galapagos. ^^ I'm REALLY looking forward to this! However, it means that I won't be around or uploading anything for like three weeks. I doubt anyone really cares but I thought I'd mention it anyway... XD

Well, I guess I might be around for like... a few minutes once in a while... if we're in a net cafe maybe... but I kind of doubt it. *shrug* So. There you go. I'll stop this huuuuge journal entry before it gets any more out of hand. @__@