The Eco Owl

I was born and raised in Southern California, living most of my life in historic Old Town Orange where it is an odd but delightful mixture of antique and boutique shops, old fashioned tea houses and modern coffee shops, run both by old and new people. It’s a wonderful, inspiring city. And then I moved to Riverside. I have spent about four years here now, and am still wondering why. But, you deal with what life has handed you, right?

As for my major and my academic interests, my mind is a bit scattered. I love to write and read stories, but I feel that if I were to make a job out of something like that, it would become more mechanic than it is fun - something college English classes succeed in accomplishing. So recently, my interests have been guided towards the core of my interests: nature. I still have yet to know what I want to do, but I know that as I expand my horizons and my knowledge, I will come to find something I love. The only thing that is set in stone is my want to help both my fellow humans and the world I live in. I just need to learn how.

And that is why I chose to take this class. I want to learn how to give back to the world that has given me so much, and how to manage and maintain a lifestyle that will help to sustain this earth. So my main question in taking this Environmental Science class is just that: how, exactly, do I NOT kill this planet?

As for other biographical information for this page, there is not too much to say. I live with my boyfriend and come in frequent contact with dogs - be it his rather lazy Jack Russell who likes to smash flies with his face, or my attempt to volunteer socializing both cats and dogs at the humane society in hopes that someone someday will take them home. Other than that, I am currently looking after a handful of baby praying mantises. It might sound cool, but it really just involves me staring at their cage, making sure they eat something and hoping they do not hop out and fly around my house.  That’s about the just of my adventures.