Lorange Blog

My friend (MFR) at Vet School on St Kitts just sent me some cool pictures of sea turtles coming to lay their egss. Pretty neat so I thought I would share. Hello everyone, Sorry for the mass email, but I just wanted everyone to see this. From March to June is mating season for sea turtles and St Kitts is one of the islands that they build nests on. Since they are endangered, it is a very big deal. All kinds of people (students, conservationists, hunters, tourists) walk the beaches every night to try to spot a sea turtle. Most never see one. I know of a couple people that have walked the beaches almost every night for the past month or so and still have not seen a sea turtle! So when Megan and I met a guy who knew where to find the sea turtles, we did not get our hopes up, but we went anyway because we had nothing better to do. We got to the beach at about 10.30 pm. We saw our first turtle at 12.30 am. It was in the process of covering its nest. Then, about 10 feet down the beach, was...

I often complain that I'm not a well traveled person, somehow feeling less worldly than my (possible more financially secure) friends. Even if the years with T were all taken away, would I have actually gone anywhere? I'm not my sister how packed up for NYC without a job two months after 9/11 (this fear seems silly now), nor am I MFR who moved to Sweden for school, traveled on bamboo rafts in Thailand, or talks about the cute little lizards in her apartment on St.Kitts . T. (The Ex) didn't like to go places and her reluctance really affected me. I gave up on my child based dreams of traveling through Europe or even cool places in this country. Divorce can be a good thing and in this aspect it has: she has her house in Southern Orange County with three cars, the mall, isolated in the same, utterly boring shit in every direction. I have dumpy place in EP with a view of the city and lake, amazing friends and relationships that influence my curiosity in the world. In booking a...

Years ago my favorite anonymous redhead fell head over heels in love with me at first sight had pity on me and let me kiss her. She freaked out. I laughed. Oh I can tell you stories of all our adventures! And so can she and some of those are best left unsaid at this point. Oh such fun and the fights. And more fights. Good times. Um yeah. Interesting Fact #1: Did you know it is statistically harder to get into vet school than med school? Today is her birthday again and also the slow count down to her leaving this year for vet school in the Caribbean. St. Kitts to be exact. She will be missed. Well eventually missed 'cause she hasn't even left yet. Interesting Fact #2: If you do a google image search for the phrase "dirty whore" you'll eventually find this post (below) I wrote for her last year . My friend Cortney is awesome because: She puts up with my shit. She can speak Swedish. She makes a broccoli pie that everyone loves except me. Come on, its broccoli, ...