WE are no longer unemployed!!!

It took a month, but it was worth the wait. Rachel and I both now have jobs that we are very happy with. I am working at the Kewalo Marine Laboratory as a lab and field research assistant, and Rachel is working at Tripler Army Medical Center as a Registered Nurse in the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU). I got my job through the school student employment office and Rachel got her job through TRU Staff travel nursing agency. I started last week and I am learning so much. My lab group is working with invertebrate research. The invertebrates include sea slugs, starfish, jellyfish, crustaceans, squid, etc. One of my responsibilities is harvesting eggs from sea slugs called phestilla and rearing them until they reach adulthood. At different steps of their life cycle they are studied and used for expirements. So I have to make sure we have a healthy stock of each "age group". I also spend alot of time on the computer looking at pictures of panels that sit in the water at pearl harbor identifying the wildlife that "settle" on the panels. The panels have different non-toxic paints and solvents that are being tested on what kind of wildlife form on them or lack there of. Mostly for the bottoms of boats. As for Rachel's job, I wish I could tell you more, but she doesn't start until Sept. 6th. There will obviously be updates on how her new job is going soon after. So keep checking. Also in the updates section off to the left it says "Video tour of our new home coming soon"....still working on it, but it won't be much longer. Finally Rachel is puting together a page all about her new organic garden which will probably be up very soon and will definately have pictures. ALOHA!!!