Okay, I've been wanting to blurt this out all weekend, but I wanted it to be a little more solidified first...

I got a zookeeping job!!!

When I was at my usual zoo shift last week, one of the staff mentioned that the Southeast Asia exhibit had openings for part-time help, and set me up for a chat with the senior keeper about it. I was offered the job on the spot! So I've spent the weekend doing the paperwork and sorting out scheduling issues. I went in today to turn in my new hire paperwork, and should be put on the schedule ASAP! It should be close to full-time hours, too. I'll still be working at the bookstore, but I talked to my manager there about it and I'll be cutting my hours back quite a bit so that I don't die of exhaustion.

I'm really excited for this! It's with a very different group of animals than I've worked with before: white-cheeked gibbons, siamangs, Asian small-clawed otters, Malayan tapirs, lowland anoa, crested porcupines, and Sumatran tigers! So it's gonna be really fun to learn some new taxa. And OMG YAAAAAY, paid experience!! XD

I ordered my copy of A Dog's Breakfast on DVD this week! Yaaaaay! I'm so excited, 'cause that movie was freakin' hilarious.

The longest day of the year has come and gone... and after living in SoCal for so long, I forgot how long days are here in the summer! When I drive home from work at about 10:15-10:30, I can still see light in the western sky. It's rather odd. Oooh! And today there was an awesome, RAINBOW cloud! It must've had ice crystals in it. It looked like a rainbow! I actually had my camera on my and got a photo, I'll have to upload it later.

In Disney news... AHAHAHAHAHA! Florida is getting stuck with Block Party Bash next year! I'm taking bets on how badly they neuter it due to union regulations. I mean, it's not that great to begin with (although the high energy is entertaining), but WDW is going to have to take out half the stuff that makes it even worthwhile - I don't see them paying for all those tumblers, since they'll have to be Equity. And I'd be willing to bet the dances will be seriously dumbed down to make it easier to cast (so they don't have to find so many people with high color codes) and because there's probably a lot of stuff in there that WDW performers aren't allowed to do. But at least it means it's off Disneyland's hands! :P I wonder how many show stops they'll be able to fit, though... I wouldn't guess more than one, since the Studios parade route is so freakin' short. MAYBE two, and they'd definitely get overlap between the two areas.