Today of all days I had to forget my camera at home. I would have loved to show you my favorite spot on campus, which is where I am right now. It is on the windward side of the island and so it is lush and green. I am sitting on a stone bench by a stone table underneath a tree that shades me from the sun. I am facing a valley and the mountains on the other side high, steep, and covered with short tough vegetation that makes them look prehistoric. I understand why Hawaii was chosen to film Jurassic Park.
Today is Valentine's day and I had promised Jordan to spend my morning with him. However, a bottlenose dolphin stranded in Kauai yesterday and today was the necropsy. Since that rarely happens, in addition to the fact that they rarely call newbies like me in when it does, I really wanted to attend it. So I did.
It was awesome, even the part when I got to take care of the intestines for measuring and samples. It might sound grose, and it was a bit smelly, but it was really cool to see what a dolphin looks like inside. They couldn't determine a certain cause of death but a guess was that she (it was a female) had died of an infection caused by decreased immune system capacity due to emminciation. Basically, the poor thing was malnourished.
After the necropsy I had to take the shuttle to class and I didn't have time to go home and shower so I smelled like... well like dead dolphin. Coincidentally, the song playing on the shuttle stereo was "that Smell."
"Ooh ooh, that smell
Can't you smell that smell?
Ooh ooh, that smell
The smell of death surrounds you"
I hope my classmates forgive me. I am still not sure if Jordan is mad at me for leaving him alone on Valentine's Day. ”It's fine, go to the necropsy” can mean so many different things and I'm not good at reading people.
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