Hey everybody! Well, to update - after living in DC for a few months, I up and moved to Forsyth Missouri... yeah, I know what you're thinking, 'gosh Jessica, was it a good idea to move to southern Missouri at the beginning of tornado season?'. I was asking myself that very question a couple of nights ago as I was listening to the emergency broadcast system tell me that a tornado was headed directly for me at 30mph... Luckily the surrounding hilly landscape broke it up and all we got hit with was some hail (and not the tennis ball sized stuff they were getting a little further north). Another natural disaster narrowly averted! Ha ha!
So I moved down here to work at Chase Studio making natural history museum exhibits. I've only been working there for a month now, so I'm still doing mostly odd jobs to help other people out - making trees and ferns, sculpting rocks out of plaster, painting plants to look dead. I've also been helping out with the installation of a new exhibit at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History in Norman, OK. I get to work with Terry Chase - founder of the company - putting together dioramas. This man is really really ridiculously good at what he does. Really. Learning this stuff from the best guy in the business makes up for the fact that I'm living in middle of nowhere in southern Missouri... and that's saying a lot (I'm living near Branson people... Branson).
So that's what I've been up to as of late.
As far as birds, I've continued my tradition of being the lazy birder (side note: one of my proudest lazy birder moments recently was in Kauai when I spotted my first Great Frigatebird while lying on the beach absent-mindedly staring at the sky) so at this point the bulk of my bird list consists of sightings from my apartment window or outside at the studio - although I'm sure that will change since there's a lot of wilderness around here and when I go on exploratory excursions I'm always packin' glass. Also, I will admit that I actually got up at sunrise one morning last weekend and walked around for the sole purpose of birding. Score one bird dork point for midwestern!
Also, Koko, I had a bloody mary yesterday and thought of you :)
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i have some bloody mary mix sitting in the fridge that i haven't touched because i know i can't make them as good as you, but everytime i see it i think of you!!!! and i miss you !!! you ARE the best western!!!
ps. i'm goin to the Modest-oh!!! mmmhhhhmm yup mmmhhhmmm
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