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"And this is my prayer, that your love may overflow more and more with knowledge and full insight to help you determine what is best, so that in the day of Christ you may be pure and blameless, having produced the harvest of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ for the glory and praise of God." -- Philippians 1:9-11

Sunday, June 30, 2013

I love Alaska

One of my struggles in the summer is managing to get enough sleep.  When the sun is up all day and shining all night (and particularly when I work all day) I am most inclined to play way later into the night than is best for my health.  When I pack the 5:00pm to 2:00am ‘off’ hours full of hiking, biking, kayaking, running, campfires, s’mores, friends, and food, the sleep I do manage is sound and vital.  Do not be misinformed, I am not complaining, I love every second of it (except perhaps the first five minutes after the alarm sounds for work the next morning), I am simply stating a fact in the life of Emily.  Another byproduct of this schedule is failure to share all of the adventures I partake in.  This is how my blog died last summer.  We will see if I am able to strike a better balance on take two…

I am working as an intern in the Eider Research department at the Alaska SeaLife Center.  I love it here!  I highly suggest visiting if you ever have the chance.  Soon (maybe, it depends if it rains) I will make a post about all the cool things going on here, and more about what my job entails.  Right now I am trying to learn as much as I can while here, and so I volunteer for random things.  Once a week for the month of June I will be on Steller Sea Lion watch from 10pm-2am.  Basically I’m looking for behavior between the new mom and pup (she is so cute!) or copulation between Woody (our mature male) and one of the other females.  It sounds super interesting, but mostly they just sleep the whole time.  Anyway, it will provide me with ample blogging time so I am hoping to actually make some progress.  A magpie recently got through the fence into the Eider breeding pens and pecked open an egg.  This is not good news, and all day the avian husbandry team had to scare it away.  To protect the eggs, we are all taking shifts through the night to make sure the magpie does not come back, and that is why this post exists; as I keep sentry I will also keep myself occupied.


Ok, so here are some of the reasons I love Alaska, and a sneak peak at the blog posts to come!

It is beautiful here

My friends live here

My family lives here

There are many adventures to be had!

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