'Week of Awesomeness'

So I finished my 6th week or the “Week of awesomeness” so named by my co-workers. We had a Canada day BBQ, a farewell party for one of my coworkers, a West Wing marathon, and a delicious lunch. It was a very fun week in which much money was surely spent well! It’s definitely been my most fun (socially) week in Canada so far. Work was fun as well, nothing too new this week though. I learned more about delivering ‘sd’s (the signals that elicit behaviors) like how and when to give them and which ones are which. I also made some progress on my project about Milo the otter. I’ve narrowed down when he pattern swims and I’m trying out new solutions to counteract it; like switching around feeding times and places and giving him varied types of enrichment. The next few weeks should be really good as well- there are two big birthday parties soon and my friend Christian from Pomona might be coming up to visit, which would be great!

There was one minor incident this week- an apartment in my building had bed bugs (ew) so they inspected and sprayed the whole building. Luckily I worked during both appointments so my landlord just took care of it, and I didn’t have any bugs (thank the Lord), so I just got a little preventative spray on the apartment baseboards and everything should be fine! Also oddly enough, the landlord told me they use a little Beagle to inspect the houses. Apparently they are specially trained and are over 90% accurate at detecting the presence of pests. I thought that was pretty hilarious, maybe Meredith and Andy should enlist Bailey.

I hope everyone had a great fourth of July, I’ll call you all later this week to hear about them!