Do you sometimes really feel alive and sometimes like you're not even living?  Me too.  Right now it's ont of those 'I'm alive' moments- not exactly tons of energy, but the 'I can feel pain and can hear and feel cold- type.  Life's good.  I'm happy.  It's just sometimes I go into a mode like 'school mode' and I don't feel like I experience as much as I am right now.  Maybe 'cause I've had to slow down a little.
One cool thing I've gotten to do is pet my friends the sting rays!!  If you've never done so, and get the opportunity to, don't pass it up!!  'They're like puppies' the announcer-lady said.  Friendly, yes, but you can't cuddle.  They're so smooth they feel slippery or slimy.  It made the rest of my day just to play with them, and just tour the water tunnel in general.  I think more museums should be hands-on.  Art and animals should be interacted with on many levels.

Here tres amigos: mi old roommate, HOPE; and friends CHUCK and JON.  I don't know how much to induldge you guys in on these great people, I'll just leave it at: They are wonderful, smart, fun people, with two of them interested and/or involved in journalism, so you should check out their sites.  HOPE also has cute pet pics.