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wow, ya. Here in the big city. Fun time, got here with minimal hassel, only got lost like 3 times so a good experiance. Cal Academy is an amazing place, lots of cool stuff going on around. Its actually really funny, it doubles as a museum in addition to being a research place, and it triples as, get this, a nightclub! How awesome is that! The museum is also a nightclub with DJs and lots of alchohol and all, fun stuff. Sadly they do check ID so i can't attend. But, while i have been here i haven't really learned much yet. So far all i have done is practice mounting the ants and turning them into specimens, and if you have ever tried getting an ant into the right position using tweezers after the ant has been in rigour mortis for a few years without breaking the parts, let me tell you it is a difficult and frustrating job. Especially when the ant's legs are sometimes litteraly the size of a pinhead (no pun intended, also i did do a compairison so ya literally the size of a pinhead). It would make Buddha scream in rage. So hopefully now that i kinda have the hang of that i'll begin a real project next week. I think it has something to do with disecting frog stomachs and seeing which ants are in the stomach, because the frogs get poison from the ants. Then i will be comparing the ants to frog stomach ants in another place (the first is undergoing construction and the habitat is being destroyed so they want to know if it is the same endangered poisonous ant species or a new one, also if the ant population is being affected). Also Brian Fisher is a great guy, really cool. I also get to join a summer program here kinda, i get to attend all the lectures and seminars without doing any of the work so it works out beautifully for me. Thats really interesting so far. I'm looking forward to that, the people in that group are also really cool. They are mostly undergrads so roughly in the same age group, so it works out really well. My one problem is that i still after four days don't have a security badge so everytime i need to enter the building it is a hassel, but the sneaking in thing is working out ok, security has only gotten made a few times. So ya thats my experiance for now. Best of luck to everyone else.

P.S. My camera is MIA so no pictures for a while, but i will post them ASAP, but that might be a while.