Comments on: Neverland http://quirkynomads.com/wp/2006/05/16/neverland/ Off balance? Get used to it. You are listening to QN. Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:25:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: chg http://quirkynomads.com/wp/2006/05/16/neverland/comment-page-1/#comment-1540 chg Tue, 16 May 2006 22:14:20 +0000 http://quirkynomads.com/wp/2006/05/16/neverland/#comment-1540 When I was a kid, I wanted to be a dolphin. But the best for which most of us could hope was "redneck." When I was a kid, I wanted to be a dolphin. But the best for which most of us could hope was “redneck.”

]]> By: Rebekkah http://quirkynomads.com/wp/2006/05/16/neverland/comment-page-1/#comment-1524 Rebekkah Tue, 16 May 2006 16:43:48 +0000 http://quirkynomads.com/wp/2006/05/16/neverland/#comment-1524 Oh dear. I wanted to be a marine biologist when I was a kid. But, see, I wasn't an annoyingly fashionable teenie bopper with a cutesy name and a crush on Flipper. I spent my summers volunteering at the aquarium. (This included spending up to 10 hours a day of heavy labor and stinking of fish, when I was old enough to move on from being a docent to slinging fish into buckets for the marine mammal trainers.) I also grew up watching the Voyage of the Mimi series on PBS, in which a crew of scientists and other assorted folks set sail to study humpback whales, and end up shipwrecked on a remote island. I even had a humpback whale water bottle for my bike! (And still remember their Latin scientific name, as well as that for beluga whales.) Alas, when it came time to apply to college, I realized that the life of a keeper/trainer at an aquarium wasn't for me, and that I probably wasn't cut out to sail the high seas, tracking marine mammals, either. So I chose a college in a nice land locked state, and got on with my life. Oh dear.

I wanted to be a marine biologist when I was a kid. But, see, I wasn’t an annoyingly fashionable teenie bopper with a cutesy name and a crush on Flipper. I spent my summers volunteering at the aquarium. (This included spending up to 10 hours a day of heavy labor and stinking of fish, when I was old enough to move on from being a docent to slinging fish into buckets for the marine mammal trainers.) I also grew up watching the Voyage of the Mimi series on PBS, in which a crew of scientists and other assorted folks set sail to study humpback whales, and end up shipwrecked on a remote island. I even had a humpback whale water bottle for my bike! (And still remember their Latin scientific name, as well as that for beluga whales.)

Alas, when it came time to apply to college, I realized that the life of a keeper/trainer at an aquarium wasn’t for me, and that I probably wasn’t cut out to sail the high seas, tracking marine mammals, either. So I chose a college in a nice land locked state, and got on with my life.

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