the beetles are out! the beetles are out!! jeesus fucking christ on a horse, the beetles are finally out. the larvae are so cool. really. they have these evertable glands that contain salicylic acetate, so when they get agitated, little white beads of toxins form in two rows down their bodies. very cool. so we spent the entire afternoon harrassing poor little cottonwood leaf beetle larvae and taking pictures. didn't see any adults, though. which doesn't make any sense. for the larvae to exist, the adults must have been out long enough to mate, lay eggs, and the eggs to hatch. that's gotta be at least days, a week? two weeks?

anyway, on to more interesting news. whoops, i lied. there is none. hmm, going to china day after tomorrow. having bad thoughts of a boy i once knew in china who seems to be very attached, still. oh well. i regret doing some thangs, but what can i do now? shit happens. get on with your life. my, my, what a little bitch i am...
let's see, what else? i'm sunburned, it hurts, and i still haven't found anything to do with my life, seeing as how i won't be getting into med school. that hurts too. finito.