Poor Nemo

Aloha everyone, hope you guys are doing well. The Times-News is is good. It's not too busy that I want to lose my mind, but it keeps me occupied enough that I don't sit here wanting to shove a pen in my eye. Speaking of poking things, I just worked on a story about this summer college program for high school science heads. (Yep, I've been helping out my mentor with her education beat from time to time.) Anyway, I got to interview them during their dissection lab. Now I'm not really grossed out by such things. I was a big science head in school and loved all that lab stuff. Well, lukily for me I guess, I saw they were dissecting fish but not just any fish, oh no, fish that with tumors. *shudder* And these weren't little gold fish, of course not, they had to be those huge 10-inch things. Anyway, I was able to observe the whole necropsy. I saw someone find liver cancer in a catfish. Another kid fileted a bass by ripping the flesh off the bone with his bare hands. And to top it all off, another bass' digestive system was cleaned out by the two fingers of some high school junior. Apparently the fish's last meal was not such a good one. That was definitely a fun time even though fish fluid was squirted at me and my sense of smell was paralyzed for the rest of the day. Otherwise, it was some good times. Well, it's three weeks and counting till I head back to NYC. Yay! Well, I should get back to work -- I'm leaving early to go home to Jersey today. Double yay!